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Dossier: Knowledge and Powers in the Iberian Universe: Discourses of Written Culture in Modernity (16th-19th Centuries)
Seeking to contribute to the recent debates concerning the phenomenon of the “relações de sucessos” in the European continent, this study aims at discussing the publication of these printed news in Lisbon and Madrid during the period of the Portuguese Restoration. Considering a selection of these documents, it is analyzed the uses of the “relações de sucesso” to inform about the war, to praise officers and groups of soldiers as well as to attack the enemies through these reports with a view to demoralize them. Furthermore, the main rhetoric resources employed by both sides of the conflict to characterize the enemy are discussed: if the Castilians were heretics and violent in the Lisbon printed news, the Madrilenian papers informed that the Portuguese were being deceived by a rebel that needed to be defeated. The amount of printed news produced in Lisbon was significantly higher than the one published in Madrid, and in them, it is also possible to read about the participation of women in the conflict and mentions to Bandarra and his prophecies.
