Menéndez Pelayo y las verdades de la tradición

Abstract

The writings that compose the historiographical project of bringing back into use the intellectual Spanish tradition, developed by Menéndez Pelayo between 1876 and 1990, are not to be appreciated as the work of a catholic ideologue or publicist, but as the product of the historical investigation made by the traditionalist historian, who contributed in a crucial way to establish the Restoration of the bibliographical and chronological basic synthesis of the contemporary studies in intellectual and literary Spanish History. The enduring sense of his work was the best result of any traditionalist trend: the recovery of one’s literary, humanistic and scientific heritage in a critical moment of lamentable oblivion.