Notability

Lesser notabilities have indeed utilized and built upon the opportunities created for filling in the gaps within the socioeconomic and political maps of the popular community.

Just as the notability lived in its own social universe between the common citizenry and the aristocracy, so too did its intellectual universe express this complex mediation.

Such petitions were part of the role of the notability as understood at the time; a manifestation of their social hegemony was the obligation to speak for or represent the local community to the imperial center.