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Copia de la Convención celebrada en París el 15/03/1737 para el cese de las hostilidades entre España y Portugal en la costa septentrional de la Ribera de la Plata a causa de la colonia de Sacramento. Mediadoras: Francia, Inglaterra y Holanda
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La guerra hispano-portuguesa entre 1735-1737 se encuadra dentro de la serie de conflictos que desde el S. XVII hasta finales del S. XVIII enfrentaron a los imperios portugués y español por el control de la llamada Banda Oriental que constituía la frontera de ambos imperios.
Banda Oriental (territorio ubicado al este del río Uruguay y al norte del Río de la Plata, sobre la costa atlántica de Sudamérica. Abarcaba una zona que se corresponde con la actual República Oriental del Uruguay y el actual estado brasileño de Río Grande del Sur).
“My name is here presented more to be understood than to be read” said once a #Roman senator.
For my #EarlyMedievalPills, let’s explore what monograms can tell us about changes in political culture & social communication between late antiquity & #Carolingian times.
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For my #EarlyMedievalPills, let’s explore what monograms can tell us about changes in political culture & social communication between late antiquity & #Carolingian times.
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Monogrammatic culture has its roots in the #classical world. Producers used monograms to mark mass-produced objects such as pottery. We also see them on Hellenistic coins. However, they didn’t encode the name of the issuing authority, but functioned as control marks.
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Influenced by Hellenistic models, #Roman emperors adopted monograms on their coins. They were used to encode the emperor’s name thus becoming personal graphic devices that could also mark certain objects the trade of which was an imperial monopoly.
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