"Missives, messengers, relatives..." Instruments of communication and government in XV century Spain
This paper tries to recover the value of the epistles or "cartas mensajeras" (messenger letters) in the shaping of the modern state and its administrative machinery. Through them, the author will try to find out the relational reciprocity between the political organization and its written...
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| Formato: | Artículo revista |
| Lenguaje: | Español |
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Centro de Estudios Históricos Profesor Carlos S. A. Segreti
2009
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/anuarioceh/article/view/23244 |
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| Sumario: | This paper tries to recover the value of the epistles or "cartas mensajeras" (messenger letters) in the shaping of the modern state and its administrative machinery. Through them, the author will try to find out the relational reciprocity between the political organization and its written expressions, revealing them as a direct consequence of its existence. To him, their interweaving and close coexistence allow to analyze how the different uses of written culture decisively contributed to the shaping of the complex organizational fabric of the emergent state, by providing the possibility of governing in absence and giving orders to far-off lands. |
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