John H. Elliott, historian, Hispanist and
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences,
has died at the age of 91, after a long career dedicated to knowing and explaining Spain.
His gaze was a pillar in the normalization of the image of the country that welcomed him within the European context.
Elliott's research, in short, was always aimed at rationalizing myths, putting into context what seemed like a whim.
Just as his Irish colleague Ian Gibson arrived in Spain through literature, baroque poetry and the discovery of '98, Elliott entered Hispanism through art.
The discovery of the Prado Museum, the fascination with Velázquez and the mystery of a portrait of the
Count-Duke of Olivares
were a kind of revelation, an epiphanic moment in which Elliott understood that his academic life would consist of understanding the Spanish history of the 17th century. , the moment in which the Empire was already languishing despite the efforts of its elites, not as inept or uneducated as they used to be in the Anglo-Saxon world.
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