Roots of the Spanish Enlightenment: ILUSTRACIÓN and the Fruits of Philip II’s Administrative Policy and Personal Ideology

Authors

John Brandon Fowles, Brigham Young University
Dr. Alvin F. Sherman Jr., Brigham Young University

Keywords

Spanish Enlightenment, personal ideology, Ilustración, Philip II

College

Humanities

Department

Spanish and Portuguese

Abstract

The Ilustración, or Spanish Enlightenment, followed in the footsteps of the general European Enlightenment but with a decidedly national flare. Enlightened thinkers in Spain, no less interested in neoclassical motifs than their European forerunners, also looked back to periods of Spanish history that defined the thrust of the Ilustración. Philip II, the sixteenth-century absolute monarch of Spain, became an important symbol for Spanish intellectuals.

Recommended Citation

Fowles, John Brandon and Sherman, Dr. Alvin F. Jr. (2013) "Roots of the Spanish Enlightenment: ILUSTRACIÓN and the Fruits of Philip II’s Administrative Policy and Personal Ideology," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013: Iss. 1, Article 986.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/986