(UI2011-11) Studies of Spanish History

Presentation

The target of the Group of Investigation “Studies of History of Spain” is to attack the analysis of the role(paper) of this territory as generating and transmitting environment of cultural elements between diverse geographical ambiences that form it and in different periods of its occurring. Therefore, the generic investigation ambience attends on three parameters: the sociological one, a geographical second and a third chronological one.

The time frame that we propose is as broad as man's life on our country: from the pre-state formations up to the prehistoric world today will be the subject of study by passing the state advanced societies of antiquity, the Middle Ages and Modernity.

Codirectores: Jesús Alberto Arenas Esteban and María Lara Martínez

Researchers:

  • Esther Pascua Echegaray
  • Daniel Casado Rigalt
  • Laura Lara Martínez
  • Sara Fuentes Lázaro

External researchers:

  • Beatriz Marín Aguilera. Doctoranda en Prehistoria. Universidad de Glasgow (Reino Unido)
  • Miguel Mayoral Moraga
  • David Odalric de Caixal i Mata
  • José Domínguez León
  • Carlos González de Escalada Álvarez
  • José Domínguez Hacha

Research Lines:

  • Foreign Relations of the Iberian Peninsula during the Prehistory: social formations and cultural hybridization
  • Foreign Relations of the medieval societies and European Christian kingdoms and the Islam
  • The Iberian Peninsula opposite to the phenomenon of the colonizations during the Antiquity
  • Intercultural Relations and multiculturalism in the medieval Spain
  • Intellectual History of the modern Spain
  • Science and culture in the Age of Spanish Silver
  • Attraction and retention of the scientific knowledge: investigators' mobility
  • Art Theory, Science education and Architectural practice (17th - 18th century)