'Poridades, cosas encobiertas e ascondidas'. The occult and the secret in Alphonse the Wise’s 'Siete Partidas'
Abstract
Secret of the lawsuit, secrets of the king, secrets of God: a lexical tracing of the terms associated with the idea of secrecy (poridad, ascondido, etc.) in the Siete Partidas allows us to grasp the weight that this notion takes on in the Wise King’s legislation. The multiple ties in tension with the hidden and with the acts of speech, the modalities of administrative construction of the inaccessibility to the king, the progressive determination of the procedural norms, are some of the aspects involved in the particular type of operation implied in the constitution of secrecy in the late Middle Ages.
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