Places of memory: the Bulletin and the Library of Menéndez Pelayo

Abstract

Both the Bulletin and the Menéndez Pelayo Library have become places of memory: laboratories where memories, cultures and traditions are created. Here, on the one hand, the legacy of Menéndez Pelayo is extolled, despite some ideological controversies for which he has been singled out, and, on the other, the immense work that he and his colleagues did to promote the Library Bulletin and the maintenance of the magazine and the institution. Both have marked international Hispanism for their great cultural heritage and have shaped the history of the Spanish 20th century. This text also mentions the vicissitudes that the magazine went through, like others, during the civil war and the Franco regime, and how it overcame them to become a benchmark for world Hispanism.