Memoria e Historiografía en torno a las Instrucciones Orientales de 1813

Abstract

In this article and on porpuse of bicentennial of the Artigas’s
Instructions in 1813, the authors realize a historiographical review of
the interpretations and revisions product of this document, considered
fundamental in the context of the Eastern Revolution, but also as
enduring inspiration of Uruguayan democracy in the «long term». This
historiographical review allows us to illustrate lawsuit senses and
political factors that affect the configuration of such foundational
documents in the context of a national and nationalist history. Through
this article the authors, contexts and periods when the major historical
and historiographical reinterpretations of Artigas’s document «Instructions
of XIII» took place are reviewed.