E-mail: jdfernandez@unav.es

Juan Pablo Domínguez holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Navarra. His doctoral dissertation on the work of the Spanish historian Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz was awarded the 2011 Prize of the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain. He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale’s Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies and a visiting scholar at Oxford University and Cambridge University. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Navarra. His research has focused on European ideas on religious tolerance and intolerance during the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution, as well as on the discursive construction of Spain’s identity and memory from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.

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Research project: European Tolerance and Iberian Intolerance: A Discursive Divide (1481-1914)

The project examines a significant number and variety of early modern and modern discourses on the alleged contrast between Northern European tolerance and Spanish and Portuguese intolerance, from the earliest writings for and against the Castilian Inquisition to the book in which Julián Juderías sought to discredit the idea of an intolerant Spain as a product of Northern and Protestant Hispanophobia. Against the still-prevalent attribution of the idea of Spain’s and Portugal’s exceptional repression of religious dissent to critics of Iberian fanaticism, the project will highlight the role played by the very apologists of Spanish and Portuguese intolerance in constructing this notion of Iberian exceptionalism.

Research period: February 2025 – July 2025