La preilustración en los medios eclesiásticos de Mallorca (SS. XVII-XVIII)

Abstract

In face of certain increasingly numerous data relating to people of filoliberal bearing in the society and, above all, among the clergymen of Mallorca of the XIX century, the article parts from the suspicion that this current did not awaken spontaneously. Because of this it questions that a notably restorationalist historiography would have bequeathed us a sufficiently accurate image of the Majorcan ecclesiastical collectivity. It aims toward certain ties of these with some protagonists of the Illustration. Attention is deserved to the passing from the salon gatherings to "Sociedad Económica Mallorquina de los Amigos del País". Among the protagonists mentioned are Bonaventura Serra, Antoni Roig i Rexach, Bernat Nadal Crespí, Lluís de Vilafranca and Cristòfor Cladera Company; all of them only initially considerated by historians.