The real terms of the transit from the reformation to the catholic reformation in Valencia Politics, church and culture (1585-1611)

Abstract

This paper seeks to describe the various events that mark the transition from the Reformation to the Catholic Reformation in Valencia. Indeed, the crisis of the seventeenth century in Valencia is presaged by socioeconomic factors such as coastal surveillance after the crisis of the Alpujarras in 1568, with plans for pacification and evangelization leading to the expulsion of the Moors in 1609, and the epidemics and famines of the last two decades of the sixteenth century. The election of Ribera, with a humanist, tolerant and open-minded spirit, signaled the Valencian diocese’s alignment with the Council of Trent, which was eventually broken with the arrival of Isidoro Aliaga. Finally, in what regards cultural life, we witness the financial and academic downturn of the University of Valencia, and the confirmation, with the constitutions of 1611, of the primacy of Thomist scholasticism’s theological knowledge over the empirical sciences.