Abstract

GARCIA, María del Rosario. The cultural field of the seventeenth century in Spain and New Granada. Desafíos [online]. 2013, vol.25, n.1, pp.205-243. ISSN 0124-4035.

The article aims to make visible some nuances of the 17TH century in Spain and the New Granada with emphasis on articulations and tensions that made up this cultural and social space through the analysis of the letrados and its position in the Hispanic cultural field of the 16th and 17TH centuries. This article also discusses the traditional thesis about the cultural isolation and obscurantism in the American colonies before the eighteenth century through the analysis of the circulation of books and knowledge between mainland Spain and its colonies, and the heterogeneous character of the lawyers that affect the symbolic monopoly of the Catholic Church.

Keywords : cultural history; Spanish golden age (Siglo de Oro); letrados; history of the book.

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