La generación de fray Luis de Leóntipología y grados del profesorado universitario en la Salamanca del siglo XVI

Résumé

In this paper an approach is made to a generation of university professors who taught at the University of Salamanca during the second half of the 16th century. This is a time when Studio Salmanticensis reached its splendor, which would have a remarkable reflection at all levels. Thus, the growth of the academic population, the high funding or the important role of the University in the creation of a bureaucratic body for the Monarchy were only some symptoms of this apogee. The existence of a faculty contributed to this, despite having been forgotten by historiography. However, professors constituted an influential social group. The objective of research is to analyze some characteristics of Salamanca university professors through prosopography and historical university and extra-university sources. In the first place, a typological classification of professors is established: manteístas, regular religious and collegians, in addition to defining each subgroup percentages. Next, professors’ academic training is analyzed, because lecturers stood out for its high intellectual level, as a result of a prolonged academic career. In short, we aim to record some features of the faculty coeval of Fray Luis de León in a period in which Salamanca became the main Studio of the Catholic Spanish Monarchy.