Hacia un medievalismo críticola censura académica ante la Sucesión real de España de José Álvarez de la Fuente (1770-1784)

  1. Álvaro Solano Fernández-Sordo
Book:
La censura en la España del siglo XVIII: Nuevas aproximaciones
  1. Elena de Lorenzo Álvarez (coord.)
  2. Rodrigo Olay Valdés (coord.)

Publisher: Trea ; Instituto Feijoo de Estudios del Siglo XVIII ; Universidad de Oviedo

ISBN: 978-84-19823-72-4

Year of publication: 2024

Pages: 279-295

Type: Book chapter

Sustainable development goals

Abstract

The censorship of the RAH to reprint the Sucesión real de España by José Álvarez de la Fuente between 1770 and 1784 reveals the difficult medievalist research and critical treatment of the news about the Asturian Monarchy at that time. A study of theobjections proposed by the academic censors is offered, analysing them in the light of source-critical medievalism and assessing the consequences of their application on the historical content of the book. This proves that the Academy is fighting against credulitytowards legendary narratives and apocryphal chronicles, but its efforts end up seeming superficial and fruitless in the light of this publication, which was already circulating in the streets.