Los “méritos de letras” constituían, en la cultura de los siglos XVI al XVIII, una especie de la más general de los “méritos” que, a su vez, era elemento central de una concepción que los ligaba a los “premios” o “mercedes”. Se los examina en este artículo a propósito del caso de los naturales del reino de Chile durante la época en la que no contaron con una universidad en su patria, que les ofreciera la posibilidad de adquirirlos, sin tener que emprender una peregrinatio academica.
The “merits of letters” constituted, in the culture of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, a kind of the most general category of “merits” which, in turn, was a central element of a conception that linked them to “prizes” or “mercedes”. They are examined in this article regarding the case of the natives of the kingdom of Chile during the time when they did not have a university in their homeland, which offered them the possibility of acquiring them, without having to undertake an academic pilgrimage. This is examined in its most frequent case of attendance at the University of San Marcos in Lima and, in the most occasional, of the universities of the kingdoms of Spain, and of the cases in which it allowed the natives of the kingdom of Chile achieve a seat in Indian audiences.
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