Catholic Kings, states and kingdoms: a historical-archival analysis
Abstract
The aim of this text is to analyse the development of the modern state, or patrimonial and composite monarchy, in terms of its archives, starting with royal dispositions such as those of the Catholic Monarchs or the more executive ones of Charles I and Philip II in terms of the setting up of the General Archive of Simancas and other archives, as well as their contrast with the evolution followed from the Bourbon dynasty onwards, which gave rise to new archives.
The inclusion of other archives, apart from the general archives, such as that of the Embassy of Rome or the network of archives dependent on the Council of Orders, can be observed. Some documentary references are provided and, above all, the formation of some documentary series dependent on their respective archival collections is described.
While in the archives of the Habsburgs the patrimonial character predominated, in those of the early Bourbons different functions can be observed, such as the cultural one, apart from the royalist one.
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