LA LITERATURA JURÍDICO-POLÍTICA CASTELLANA Y PORTUGUESA DE LOS SIGLOS XVI Y XVII.

This article analyses legal and political literature from the XVI to the XVII centuries in order to understand why this period of time has been labelled as the Spanish Golden Age. The aim of this study is to identify common features within the literature using both formal and content analysis of each piece. Moreover, the context in which the literature was produced and by whom it was written by will also be examined. In addition, it is important to discuss those text which were produced in Portugal, either due to the nationality of the autor or why they were pinted there. These books have been essential to the history of political literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]