El Consejo Real de Castilla y la autorización administrativa de impresión de libros en el siglo XVI

Abstract

The publication of books in Early Modern Times implied a cultural event to the same extent as administrative. The obligations contained in the well-known Pragmática of the year 1558 not only altered the material formality of the Castilian book, but that such Paratexts are useful to get to know the functioning of the institution responsible for granting the administrative authorisation of publications, the Royal Council of Castile, and also to define the appearance of a merely administrative field in the management of public affairs, formalized through the figure of the license. At the same time, with the Pragmática was also sanctioned a mediation network that implied to Council members, authors and publishers, which lasted on the world of creation. As we can see, appropriate network for conducting interdisciplinary research, that put into relationship history and literature.