Abstract

URIBE, Ricardo. Composition, printing and consultation of time in the Ibero-American calendars (Valladolid 1628-Bogotá 1888). Hist. Soc. [online]. 2019, n.37, pp.52-82.  Epub Oct 10, 2019. ISSN 0121-8417.  https://doi.org/10.15446/hys.n37.78402.

The following article corresponds to the first attempt to connect the poster-type printed calendars in Spain and in America. A preliminary study that invites us to think of a global scale temporality, synchronized and tending to the synthetic, characteristic of the baroque, therefore previous to the enlightenment rationality and even valid beyond the period of Latin American independence. It is maintained that such coverage was only possible through the use of the printing press, whose technical limitations conditioned the representation of time. The result of this was a grid composed of a set of lists full of abbreviations that tried to condense on a sheet all the temporalities of the so-called Catholic planet. It is concluded that this schematic form of time was recorded in the memory of Spanish-Americans as a result of how easy it could be composed, printed and consulted. Not in vain, its graphic structure reproduced for more than two centuries in both parts of the ocean. In summary, this study combines and emphasizes the thesis that time and texts are the product of a social convention.

Keywords : written culture; time; calendar; Spanish empire; connected history.

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