Un gobierno en cartas: la correspondencia entre información, despacho y memoria en los siglos XVI y XVII

. Analysis of the uses of written correspondence as a situated knowledge throughout the Spanish Golden Age in different spheres of government as an instrument for the circulation of news and decision-making between private text and public space, including archiving, or even letter collecting. In short, we propose to analyse correspondence as the memory of a particular «knowledge of govern-ment» that was susceptible to being employed, wielded or used either as a method of courtly and political learning or as an instrument to achieve private or family interests.