Consejeros del Rey, Consejeros de las Repúblicas. Percepción y práctica habitual en el vademécum político de la Monarquía Hispánica del Quinientos y el Seiscientos

Abstract

In the Christian-Western political theory has been understood as a political server should provide his lord help and advice. The first began as military aid and then drift into the economic service. The second was to support this lord (usually a king) in their governance and management tasks. So, politicians, ministers, officers were primarily councillors, administered or intermediated this royal or public service. The reflections on the matter from the perspective of the habitus , helps understanding social leaders and oligarchies, and its work and justification against the real device. In fact, the treatises about the councillors was an entire subgenre of political literature of which the castilians participated with other subjects of the Hispanic Monarchy. In this work two not always easy to delimit lines are drawn. On the one hand, consideration of the councillors from above as support for the princely government by polisinodial system; here we find authors like Furio Ceriol, Madariaga, Ramirez de Prado, Alamo de Barrientos and Martir Rizo, all have numerous influences of Erasmus, Vives, Bodin, Lipsius, Chokier de Surlet and Simancas. On the other hand, those who advocate more republican or civic positions, among which we should mention to Costa Beltran, Castilla Aguayo, Ballesteros Saavedra and Acevedo Salamanca.