Politia: vocabulario moral y político en castellano (1350-1550)

Politia: Moral and Political Vocabulary in Castilian (1350–1550)
One way of analysing a society is through the study of its linguistic practices. Vocabulary, its definitions, and the respective commentaries and glosses found in texts contribute to an understanding of the levels, matrices and maps of meaning in specific historical periods and geographical contexts.
The Politia project seeks to examine in greater depth the mechanisms of expression and configuration of a political-moral vocabulary during the years 1350–1550 in Castile. The corpus of analysis includes translations produced in Castile between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries; Castilian legislative texts; mirrors for princes and manuals of noble conduct; commentaries, paraphrases and glosses; and vocabularies or dictionaries from the period. This selection highlights the normative character of the discourses analysed in the Project and their processes of translation.
Such processes also involve communicative factors and contexts which, in turn, influence the debates generated among the actors concerning the different understandings of terms and the possible concepts to which they refer. For this reason, the Politia project seeks to focus particularly on the terms and concepts that are explicitly discussed in the sources.
This research proposal therefore aims to question and understand the processes, factors and spaces of dissemination, adaptation and generation of a political-moral semantics that forms part of their translation.