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During the time of the Political Turn in the historiography of the Iberian Empire (1580-1640), the parallel careers of the royal historiographer Antonio de Herrera and the would-be historian Francisco Caro de Torres are indicative of the developing mutual relations between global informants and court officials. Departing from the case of the defeat of the English corsair Drake in Panama (1596), this paper examines the processes by which the narrative of such a recent event was negotiated, censored, and reshaped according to the strategies of different court factions, and revived decades later for different professional and political uses. The case of how both Herrera and Caro de Torres used the narrative of Drake's final expedition shows the historical and political enjeux of the writing of recent history across the Atlantic between Madrid and Panama. Finally, both trajectories demonstrate continuity between the political practices royal historiographers in the reigns of Philip II and Philip III and the « hired pens » who would come to foster political action by the means of the politics of history under Philip IV.
Galicia é probablemente unha das comunidades autónomas que conta cun maior número de documentos conservados para o período medieval do noso país. Con todo, estes fondos non mereceron aínda a mesma atención que os conservados para outras zonas, polo que o volume de documentación inédita é alto e o de editada insuficiente, impedíndonos así tanto poder contar con toda a información histórica dispoñible que achegan estas fontes manuscritas coma realizar un estudo en profundidade da evolución dos tipos escriturarios na nosa terra. Poder recompilar nunha única publicación homoxénea todos os documentos medievais galegos conservados, tanto os xa coñecidos coma aqueles que permaneceron aínda sen estudar, é unha tarefa inxente que se ha de facer pouco a pouco, contando coa dificultade da gran dispersión das fontes xa localizadas entre arquivos galegos, nacionais e estranxeiros, ademais das coleccións particulares. Este traballo é así un primeiro paso que, partindo sobre todo das coleccións diplomáticas coas que xa contamos, tenta reunir a produción documental altomedieval en escritura visigótica da nosa terra. Un primeiro paso que recolle os pasos anteriores para poder avanzar.
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The first Spaniards and the first Habsburg chronicler Katherine van Liere The long century from c. 1450 to c. 1600 not only brought Castilian people into contact with new continents and peoples overseas, but intensified their histori cal interest in their own land and its peoples. Like most heritage quests, early modem Spanish Christians' search for historical roots was selective and partisan; anti-Islamic, anti-Protestant, xenophobic, and imperialist sentiments all helped to inspire it. Indeed, viewed from a distance, the historical writing produced in Castile during the Habsburg era, especially that written by official chroniclers, may seem to embody a relatively uniform set of values, including monarchist nationalism, expansive imperialism, and religious and cultural intolerance. At closer range, however, more ideological diversity emerges. 1 In a classic article two decades ago, Richard Kagan highlighted the provincial and communal senti ments in the abundant civic histories of the Habsburg era. 2 More recently, Ricardo Garcia Carcel has suggested that the anti-imperial comunero ideology of the 1520s survived in the "primitivist" and "indigenist" themes found in national his tories written in sixteenth-century Castile. 3 Still, a persistent tendency to empha size nationalism, monarchism, and imperialism in the Habsburg era has meant that some of the heterodox views so rightly acknowledged by Kagan and Garcia Carcel are still routinely overlooked or misrepresented. A volume dedicated to Teofilo Ruiz, a vigilant champion of heterodox ideas, seems a fitting place to offer some modest corrections. This chapter will reconsider the political sympathies of the Habsburg royal chronicler, Florian de Ocampo (14957-1555). By reading his Coronica general de Espana (1543,1553) within the context of other human ists' search for ancient origins and Ocampo's life experience, it will argue that the chronicler can better be seen as a disgruntled critic of absolute monarchy and imperial expansion than as a committed Habsburg propagandist. Ocampo's Coronica general de Espana offered a detailed narrative of the two millennia before the coming of the Romans, a period that had never before received such focused attention in Spanish historical writing. In very broad terms, Ocampo's intense interest in this period can be seen as the last logical step in a centurylong process of seeking ever-earlier historical origins for Hispanic identity. The most popular Hispanic origin myths of the Middle Ages had located the origi nal Hispania in the early medieval Visigothic kingdom. After fading from view in fourteenth-century historiography, the Visigoths had reappeared decisively in