Don Pedro Inguanzo y Rivero, a counter-enlightenment canon in the Cadiz Cortes

Authors

  • Carlos Rodríguez López-Brea Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i14.369

Keywords:

Counter-Enlightenment, Cadiz Cortes, Spanish Constitution of 1812, Religious question, Inquisition, Inguanzo

Abstract

Pedro Inguanzo y Rivero, canon of the cathedral of Oviedo, was probably the best speaker among conservative deputies in the Cádiz Cortes. In fact, he defended the most opposite positions to the liberal revolution in process, which he attacked on being abstract and not respecting the Spanish traditions. On the other hand he admired the English parliament, in the idea of that the high clergy should assume political functions in the State. He also rejected all the ecclesiastical reforms approved by the Cortes, seeing in them a conspiracy of philosophers, heretical theologians and revolutionary politics whose aim was to destroy the Church, that was the best prop of the tradition. The Catholic Church, according to Inguanzo, not only should be autonomous of the political power, but also would have to guide its steps. The reasons for evil were the philosophy of Enlightenment and the reforms supported by ministers as Campomanes or Jovellanos. In view of these elements, he could be considered the main figure of the Counter-Enlightenment in the Cadiz Cortes.
Fecha envío / Submission date: 30/01/2013Fecha de aceptación / Acceptance date: 03/03/2013

Author Biography

Carlos Rodríguez López-Brea, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Doctor en Historia Contemporánea por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, con Premio Extraordinario. Desde el año 2004 ejerce su docencia en la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Es autor de una treintena de estudios, en libros, capítulos y artículos en revistas de Historia Contemporánea, así como del libro Don Luis de Borbón (1777-1823), el cardenal de los liberales (Toledo, 2002). Sus ámbitos de estudio preferentes son el liberalismo del siglo XIX, las relaciones Iglesia-Estado y el problema religioso durante la II República y el franquismo. En la actualidad es colaborador científico en los proyectos de investigación “La restauración social-católica en el primer franquismo, 1936-1953” y “La protesta política en la España de los años Treinta: continuidades y rupturas”.
Historia Constitucional

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No. 14 (2013): Historia Constitucional N. 14 (2013)

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Three representatives from Asturias in the Corts of Cadix

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