Open Access«Recibida y admitida de todos...» La lectura de la historia en la sociedad madrileña del Siglo de Oro
Author(s) -
José Manuel Prieto Bernabé
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
hispania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.189
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1988-8368
pISSN - 0018-2141
DOI - 10.3989/hispania.2005.v65.i221.126
Subject(s) - historiography , humanities , reading (process) , politics , art , history , political science , archaeology , law
This work attempts to relate the world of historical literature to the reading reality of Madrid society in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. From 1550 to 1560, the necessary conditions were forged whereby a city like Madrid, without a significant history of printing but with a great political, economic and demographic projection, became a reference point of written culture. The production and distribution of printed material favoured disciplines like history, which became an instrument of political strategy and a means of achieving a collective recovery of national consciousness. Through education about the past, it was necessary to construct the present and order the future. The complex fabric of Madrid society, halfway between oral practice and the written testimony, transformed strategies of historiographical consumption that adhered to modern forms of understanding the discipline