Between Politics and Religion at the end of the Seventeenth Century. Crossed Practices and Discourses

Abstract

The succession of Charles II proposes an interesting field for the socio-cultural study of the politics aiming to the crossing interests of the factions that match up the court of Madrid due to the monarch’s succession. The aim of this work is to analyze - in the context of the succession issue that precedes the War of the Spanish Succession - not only the already recognized influence that the clergy opinion had in the society, but the practices and discourses used in the political field and the religious one, and how they crossed and became instruments to state the positions that defended the rights of Habsburgs or Bourbons. Furthermore, this work tries to emphasize the intersection of the jurisdictional attributions with regalist background that are confronted in this conflict.