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The P.S. (Post Scriptum) project develops systematic research, editing and historical-linguistic study of private letters written during the Modern Age in Portugal and Spain. These documents are written almost entirely unpublished, made by authors from different social backgrounds. They could be masters or servants, adults or children, men or women, thieves, soldiers, artisans, priests, political activists and other types of social agents.
In large part, his epistolography survived for exceptional reasons, when his paths crossed with the means of persecution of the Inquisition and the civil, ecclesiastical and military courts, institutions that used to use private correspondence as proof of crimes. In other, rarer cases, the cards were preserved in a non-criminal context, but were also exchanged in a backstage interaction and are framable in situational terms. These textual sources often present an (almost) oral rhetoric, focusing on everyday subjects that until today have not been easy to study except from small examples.
