Montserrat Jiménez Sureda, UAB

Aim of the Course
This course intends to analyse the situation and the evolution of Spain during the Eighteenth Century focusing both in home and in foreign affairs.

Evaluation
The evaluation of this subject will be based on class participation -which will provide a 30 % of the final note- and a final exam -which will provide a 70 % of the final note.

Course Outline
Week 1. Steady process of structural change
Week 2. Self-supporting demographic growth
Week 3. Dynamics of economy
Week 4. Social canvas.
Week 5. The upper classes
Week 6. Cultural careers to be part of the élite
Week 7. The situation of Spanish women in the Ancien Régime
Week 8. The lower classes
Week 9. The Spanish Enlightenment
Week 10. Political thought
Week 11. The compatibility between Reason and Faith
Week 12. Universities and science

Required reading
Lynch, John, Bourbon Spain, 1700-1808, Blackwell, Oxford, 1989.

Selected bibliography:
Amalric, J. P.; Domergue, L., La España de la Ilustración, 1700-1833, Crítica, Barcelona, 2001.
Anes, G., El Siglo de las Luces, Artola, Miguel (dir.), Historia de España, Alianza, Madrid, 1994, vol. IV.
Callahan, W. J., Iglesia, poder y sociedad en España, 1750 1874, Nerea, Madrid, 1989.
Domínguez Ortiz, A., Sociedad y estado en el siglo XVIII español, Ariel, Barcelona, 1976.
Enciso Recio, L. M. et al., Los Borbones en el siglo XVIII, 1700-1808, Gredos, Madrid, 1991.
Hargreaves-Madwsley, W. N., Eighteenth century Spain, 1700-1788. A political, diplomatic and institutional history, Macmillan, Londres, 1979.
Martínez Ruiz, E.; Juan Vidal, J., Política interior y exterior de los Borbones, Itsmo, Madrid, 2001.
V.V.A.A., Estructuras agrarias y reformismo ilustrado en la España del siglo XVIII: actas del seminario de Segovia sobre agricultura e Ilustración en España, Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación, Madrid, 1989.
Walker, Geoffrey J., Política española y comercio colonial, 1700-1789, Ariel, Barcelona, 1979.

Literary resources
Historical novels
Pérez Galdós, Benito, La corte de Carlos IV, Edicomunicación, Barcelona, 1997.

Audio-visual resources
Historical documentaries
Tribuna de la Historia, La crisis del Antiguo Régimen, RTVE, Madrid, s. a.
Fictional films
Esquilache, Spanish production filmed in 1988, directed by Josefina Molina and played by Fernando Fernán Gómez, José Luis López Vázquez and Concha Velasco.

Biography
MA in History and Ph.D. in Early Modern History. Professor of Early Modern History and Vicedirector of Research activities at the Department of Modern and Contemporary History, UAB. Specialized in History of the Church during the Enlightenment. Published a book entitled L'esglèsia catalana sota la monarquia dels Borbons. La catedral de Girona en el segle XVIII (Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, Barcelona, 1999) and the biography of the Catalan enlightened philosopher Francesc Xavier Dorca i Parra in the collective work Girona a l'época de la Il-lustració (C.E.H.S., Girona, 2001). Among other things, she has dealt with the disarming of Catalans after the War of the Spanish Succession in La politica armamentística de los Borbones en Cataluña tras la Guerra de Sucesiòn (“Investigaciones Historicas”, 21, 2001, pp. 103-131) and the role of Spanish women during the Eighteenth Century in La situació femenina en l'Antic Règim (“Revista de Catalunya”, 174, june 2002, pp. 25-50). She is presently engaged in a project on the overlapping of institutions and families in a “space of power” such as the cathedral of Girona.