Abstract

FERRO VIDAL, Luis Enrique. Story and History on the Royal Inland Road. Historical Parallels of a Foundation. Revista Col. San Luis [online]. 2022, vol.12, n.23, 00016.  Epub May 27, 2024. ISSN 2007-8846.  https://doi.org/10.21696/rcsl122320221336.

The historical academy tends to scorn the historical accounts of memory, considering them apocryphal or unreliable in terms of veracity. However, it cannot be denied that each story told by historians, and each story told in tradition, maintain the main axis that gives coherence to the plot of the event. Both ways of telling the same story stem from a past event or process that becomes a discourse. Thus, in this article, we propose to establish that neither form of history should be disdained, but on the contrary, we try to consider that memory stories as an open text, should be understood within historical narrative contexts, and consequently demonstrate that there is a parallelism between both forms of evoking the same story and thus determine that oral history, sometimes, is not as apocryphal as it is usually thought. The element of analysis is an account of the founding of a Guanajuato town that focuses on the context of the history of the Royal Inland Road.

Keywords : history; story; foundation; Royal Inland Road; morphology.