Pretextual archeology of contemporary historiography about the royal roads of the 18th century

Abstract

Consulting what has already been written is one of the fundamental elementos of the historical method, since it is one of the doors which historians delve into our topics of interest. We observe how historians refer to others, making it clear that historiographic works are inserted in an extensive intertextual network. Thus, in this research we generate an intertextuality scheme, with a pretextual archeology approach, about the contemporary historiography of the royal roads in the 18th century. We propose that intertextuality is greater among publications that are generated in geographically closer territories. We intend to reflect on intertextualy as an approach to language sciences.