Religious tolerance in bonapartist Spain (1808-1813)

Authors

  • Juan Pablo Domínguez Universidad de Navarra

Keywords:

Toleration, Inquisition, Napoleon, Joseph Bonaparte, religion, national identity

Abstract

The religious intolerance decreed by article 12 of Cádiz Constitution has led some historians to believe that the ideas of religious freedom did not circulate in Spain at the time of the Peninsular War. The fact that the Bayonne Constitution included a similar prohibition of non-catholic religions may seem to indicate that this rejection of tolerance was common to the two opposing sides of the war. Nevertheless, analyzing the writings issued from the Bonapartist Spain (especially newspapers, diatribes against the Inquisition and masonic discourses), it is not difficult to find open apologies of religious tolerance among the Spanish supporters of Napoleon and his brother Joseph. 

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Author Biography

Juan Pablo Domínguez , Universidad de Navarra

Doctor en Historia (2010). Investigador del Instituto de Cultura y Sociedad (Universidad de Navarra)

Published

2015-10-01

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