Secretarios del rey y escribanos de cámara en el Consejo de Indias: oficiales de la pluma para el gobierno de la monarquía

• Main Author: Margarita Gómez Gómez
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2017-10-01
• Series: Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
• Subjects: secretary of the King; scribes of the Chamber of Government; scribes of the Chamber of Justice; Council of the Indies; modern diplomatic
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/71367

The present study aims to think about the quality and functions of the professionals of the document and writing, which grew and developed during the Old Regime to manage and write the business of the government of the Indies. Specifically, we will analyze the documentary practices carried out by the king's secretaries and the chamber clerks who worked in the Council of the Indies, in order to know their functions and establish their similarities and differences. To do this, I have distinguished the three facets or activities that most clearly allowed the ministers of roles in general to be recognized in their profession and, if appropriate, to ascend to positions of greater consideration. These three facets or functions are the following: the greater or lesser closeness and trust with the monarch; Their greater or lesser involvement in the management of secret business; And, finally, their greater or lesser capacities in the writing and issuance of real documents. o ignored