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Este artículo aborda los Comentarios del desengañado de sí mismo de Diego Duque de Estrada en el marco de los debates sobre el valor relativo del origen familiar y los méritos individuales en la virtud de la nobleza. A partir del... more
This research analyzes the importance of printing in the spread of secular Franciscan way of life in the Iberian Peninsula during the Early Modern Age. Analysing the evolution of print production and its internal characteristics, we see a... more
En este capítulo de libro abordo el papel de los milicianos de origen ne- groafricano en la defensa de ciudades, pueblos y puertos hispanoame- ricanos, para después relacionarlo con una comedia poco conocida del Siglo de Oro, titulada... more
For 300 years, Franciscans were at the forefront of the spread of Catholicism in the New World. In the late seventeenth century, Franciscans developed a far-reaching, systematic missionary program in Spain and the Americas. After founding... more
This most recent edition of the bibliography contains almost 21,200 titles in English (64%) and French (36%), with an introductory section on historiography. It deals with every aspect of Italian history and culture from the Late... more
"De la esclavitud al abolicionismo en la historia de España: legislación, guerra justa y discursos" en Martín Casares, Aurelia: Esclavitud, mestizaje y abolicionismo en los mundos hispánicos, Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2015.
This article examines a series of proposals for improving silver refining methods presented to the municipal council of Potosí (in current-day Bolivia) in the late sixteenth century as a means of nuancing current understandings of the... more
Como todo nacionalismo el español se basa en relatos fundamentados en interpretaciones de hechos históricos más o menos documentados. Durante el siglo XIX se elaboraron diferentes relatos estéticos y literarios que devinieron en iconos... more
On the evolution and ultimate fate of the rich vein of early modern Spanish women's authorship of spiritual autobiographies.
A brief of recent historiography on the political history of early modern Spain.
In 1587, the Milanese cartographer Urbano Monte wrote a treatise aiming to show the physical, geographical and ethnological features of the known world, as well as the historical facts that happened shortly before his time. In this work,... more
Borja Franco Llopis y Francisco J. Moreno Díaz del Campo, Pintando al converso. La imagen del morisco en la península ibérica (1492-1614), Madrid, Cátedra, 2019, 479 págs. En 1989 Fernando Marías llamó la atención sobre la sombra en que... more
Until recently, studies in the architectural history of medieval and early modern Europe have assumed an all-male labor force on the construction site and in the related building trades. Historical chronicles and manuscript illuminations... more
This book explores women as book collectors in Spain from c. 1500 to the end of the eighteenth century. There is a presentation on the problems women collectors had for developing this passion. Then some of the most famous women's... more
Queen, Mother, and Stateswoman is the first study of Mariana of Austria (1634–1696), who ruled the Spanish Empire while her son Carlos II, was a minor. Mariana employed successful political, diplomatic, and military strategies at a... more
This volume examines political and diplomatic relations, as well as cultural exchanges between Tuscany and Spain from a new perspective that has overcome traditional approaches and has contributed to the opening of new historiographical... more
Around the 1485 was born in Villaescusa de Haro Sebastián Ramírez de Fuenleal (c. 1485-1547), in a family which has dedicated all its best men in the progress of the Kingdom of Castilla. Sebastián Ramírez will life to see the... more
Best known for his works on the mystical practice of meditative recollection, Franciscan friar Francisco de Osuna published his candid manual for lay life, Norte de los estados (North Star) in 1531 before leaving Spain to reside in... more