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Court cases could also be presented and argued only in Castilian, which became the sole language of government and displaced Latin, Catalan and the other languages of Spain.
Catalan was first infringed upon following the War of Spanish Succession, when the Bourbon monarchy signed the Nueva Planta decrees (1707-1716), enforcing Castilian as the sole official language of Spain and reducing the cultural and linguistic footprint of Catalan [Guibernau, 2000; Narotzky, 2019].
After the War of Spanish Succession, the various regional fueros were eliminated by the Decretos de Nueva Planta (Decrees of Nueva Planta) in an effort to modernize the anemic Kingdom of Spain. The revocation of the fueros led to several revolts throughout the country as various regional groups fought for power against Bourbon rule. Despite the ...
Sep 24, 2015 · With the death of Franco in 1975, and once democratic freedoms had been recovered, the 1978 constitution recognised linguistic plurality and established that Spanish languages other than...
May 17, 2019 · The latter is easy to show because Catalonia lost its public law with the Nueva Planta Decrees (1615–1616) based on the right of conquest by arms, as has been underscored by legal historians: the Catalans were not treated by Philip V as rebels, which Philip IV had done in 1653, but instead as enemies, forcing them to assimilate to the laws of ...
- Pompeu Casanovas
- p.casanovasromeu@latrobe.edu.au
- 2019
May 14, 2018 · 1716 - The Nueva Planta decree dismantles the separate Catalan legal system, brings Catalonia under direct rule from Madrid and abolishes the administrative use of the Catalan language....
The decrees abolished the main Catalan institutions and laws (except the civil and mercantile laws), establishing absolutism as the new political system, and imposed the administrative use of Spanish language, progressively displacing Catalan. After Nueva Planta Fall of Barcelona, 11 September 1714
