Academic repression in Mallorca during the 18TH century: the Bishop Juan Díaz de la Guerra and the closure the school of Sapiencia in 1773

Abstract

This article analyzes the plan of closing Sapiencia, a school located in the city of Palma, during the bishopric of Juan diaz de la Guerra. Considered an important educational institution of the mallorcan clergy and strongly connected with the lulist phenomenon, Sapiencia had a considerable role in the social and cultural life of the island. The enlightened policy of Carlos III programmed by then great changes in all educational institutions, and used the figure of the Bishop to try to standardize the mallorcan academic system by eliminating those centres that do not adapt to the interests of the monarchy. Sapiencia will be, precisely, one of those schools. The following pages are intended to discuss the closure of the school and its consequences in the insular educational world from a renewed perspective and more global of the educational project of Juan diaz de la Guerra.