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The structures of the late ancient Visigothic kingdom of Iberia were rooted in those of Roman Hispania, Santiago Castellanos argues, but Catholic bishops subsequently produced a narrative of process and power from the episcopal point of view that became the official record and primary documentation for all later historians. The delineation of these two discrete projects—of construction and invention—form the core of The Visigothic Kingdom in Iberia. Castellanos reads documents of the period that are little known to many Anglophone scholars, including records of church councils, sermons, and letters, and utilizes archaeological findings to determine how the political system of elites related to local communities, and how the documentation they created promoted an ideological agenda. Looking particularly at the archaeological record, he finds that rural communities in the region were complex worlds unto themselves, with clear internal social stratification little recognized by the literate elites.
This book is devoted to the inhabitants of the Spanish–Portuguese borderlands during the early modern period. It seeks to challenge a predominant historiography focused on the study of borderlands societies, relying exclusively on the antagonistic topics of subversion and the construction of boundaries. It states that by focusing just on one concept or another there is a restrictive understanding tending to condition the agency of local communities by external narratives. Thus, if traditionally border people were reduced by some scholars to actors of a struggle against a supposedly imposed border; in a more modern perspective, their behaviors have been also framed in bottom-up processes of...
Artículo de investigación publicado en el número IV de la Revista de Estudios Mirobrigenses. Relata las historias acontecidas en el Puente de Barba del Puerco durante la Guerra de la Independencia. Este puente se haya ubicado sobre el río Águeda, entre las localidades de Puerto Seguro, antigua Barba del Puerco, y San Felices de los Gallegos.
For speleologists and holidaymakers alike, here is an essential handbook. The first guide to all the decorated Ice Age caves in Europe that are open to the public, fully revised and updated for a third edition, this book covers more than 50 caves in the UK, France, Spain, Portugal and Italy, as well as relevant museums and centres.
Artículo de investigación publicado en el libro del Carnaval del Toro 2020. En el mismo se relata la relación de Mariano Benlliure, quizás el mejor escultor español del siglo XX, con Ciudad Rodrigo.
Artículo de investigación publicado en el número V de la Revista de Estudios Mirobrigenses.Relata cómo se realizó el pronunciamiento de la revolución de 1868 en la localidad salmantina de Fuenteguinalo. La Gloriosa, como así se denominó esta revolución, echó del poder a la reina Isabel II.
La investigación saca a la luz la historia musical y de las instituciones musicales de Salamanca (Instituto Alemán de Cultura, Instituto Italiano de Cultura, Ayuntamiento de Salamanca, Diputación Provincial, Conservatorio Regional de Música, Orquesta Sinfónica de Salamanca y Sociedad Filarmónica de Salamanca) desde finales de la Guerra Civil, entre 1940 y 1960. Por otra parte, este estudio reconstruye el papel desempeñado por las élites en la revitalización de las instituciones musicales salmantinas. El trabajo determina la naturaleza y composición de esa minoría rectora que las lideró, a la vez que fue receptora de ellas, durante dos décadas. Además, se descubre la utilizació...