IV Meeting of Young Researchers in Modern History, Barcelona, 6-7 July 2017, Autonomous University of Barcelona. María de Guadeloupe de Lempstre was VI duquesa de Aveiro (since 20 October 1679), Arcos and Macura. He was born in Azeitão on 11 January 1630 and died in Madrid on 9 February 1715. His li...

Cayetana de Alba, sin duda en sus mejores años, fotografiada por Gyenes (BNE). Como, sin faltar a la verdad, podría decir la popular obra de Arniches de 1910. Hoy se ha ido -esperamos que sin duda a un lugar mejor- desde su querida Sevilla la última duquesa (con el numeral XVIII) de Alba de Tormes,...

Se recoge la historia de las protagonistas -el jardinero y la duquesa- desde su anulación personal hasta el descubrimiento de la conciencia de la propia singularidad, enmarcada en una circunstancia témporo-espacial clave: la Guerra Civil española y el castillo ducal. De igual manera, se establece la...

The article explores the relationship between precious possessions and power strategies of their owners in the context of the reinforcement of the Crown's power between c. 1480 and the end of the Avis-Beja dynasty in 1580. Six figures are analysed from a gender perspective: kings João II, Manuel I,...

El artículo plantea el autodescubrimiento interior de la pareja protagónica de El Rey y la Reina, de Ramón Sender, Rómulo, el jardinero, y la Duquesa, durante la guerra civil española. Ambos han perdido su identidad en el vivir cotidiano. El transcurrir novelesco los hace encontrar el otro que fuero...

the circumstances of the complicated testament of the 13th Duchess of Alba and its role in the break-up of the old family collection are well-known facts. However, the literature has not taken into account the interpretation of the legal and symbolic arguments put forward in the proceedings or their...

Absolutely the only topographical map or drawing remaining from Colón. Of this seafarer, who made maps throughout his life, who had to have safely drawn up the defeat of his trips, which is known to have given a great map to Isabel, there is only this piece of paper left (today in the Archive of the...

Catalina Fernández de Córdoba was the woman of Duke Enrique de Cardona, who died in July 1640, in the initial phase of the Catalan Returns. The duquess, which had hitherto led the conventional life of an aristocat, was forced to play a political role, from a possible intermediary between Catalonia a...

Newspapers, magazines and television in particular have highlighted the celebrations around the 60th anniversary of Queen Elisabeth II in England, repeating the cover recently granted to the marriage of Prince William with Kate Middleton today, Duchess of Cambridge. This fascia of the mile around th...

This article concerns María Manrique de Lara Figueroa, a noble humanist whose artistic culture makes it a capital figure in the pro- motion of Andalusian and Italian renaissance during the first decades of the 16th century. An analysis of the chronics and news published, extended with unprecedented...

In this article we look at the social protest in the Almeria of Palomares following the air crash of 17 January 1966, which caused four thermonuclear bombs to fall into the earth. In the context of the Cold War and Franco censorship, we focused on the actions taken by Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo,...

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The article presents reflections on the participation of a woman in the Catholic and Monarchic cause in the middle of the 19th century in France. Through her travel newspaper I published with the help of Marina Polzin in 2014, I used the example of Sophie Johanet and her husband Auguste Johanet, two...

A great fortune is not a condoms against burial, when the taste does not govern its use; one is made of all the droplets, and the placeres, however diverse they may be, cease to make sense, and the cansinos, or inappropriate ones, become when their chain is not interrupted. The soul needs rest and s...

Texts of communications defended at the 15th Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Foundation of Modern History, following a peer review. From 1659 to 1715, the Casa de Aveiro experienced a period of succession crisis which ended with two judgments in favour of Ms Guadalupe de Lancáster recognising her...

Haydn’s relations with the Spanish nobility of his time highlighted the contact with the Condesa-Duquesa de Benavente. By contract, Haydn undertook to send approximately 12 new compositions to Condesa each year. Although it is not known to what extent Haydn complied with its share of the contract, i...

In 1853, she became an Emperatriz de los Franceses. The increase in Spanish society led to an alluvial of information in the press, praising the merits of the one chosen by Napoleon III. His links with the Spanish aristocracy — his mother had tried to tie her with the Duque de Sesto — and the role o...

A principios del siglo XVI, la Casa Ducal de Medinaceli era una de las familias aristocráticas más distinguidas en Castilla. El matrimonio formado por los II duques de Medinaceli, don Juan de la Cerda y doña María de Silva y Toledo, desarrolló una especial sensibilidad hacia el arte y la cultura. Lo...

In the last decades, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s work has become a prime example of marginal writing that calls into question, from the periphery, the centre of Spanish colonialism, of the ecclesiastical authorities and of the scholarly elite in the Viceroyalty of New Spain. Without doubt, the diver...

This work raises some questions about the relationship of Italian opera singers with the Spanish nobility at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, based on the example provided by the preserved correspondence of Osuna Duchesa. This documentation highlights the importance...

Pocos days after knowing about the fire that in 1903 burned the ancient villa of Eugenia Emperatriz in Biarritz, his sadness at the disappearance of which he was one of the most emblematic buildings of his queen. As it itself stated, prior to the fire of the Biarritz villa, the palaces of the Tuller...

On the arrival of Don Quijote in the palace of the dukes, and "seeing how he had read the mesm he treated these gentlemen in Ios past centuries... this was the first day that he all met and believed to be a true, non-fantastatic male male "(1378). It is understandable that this statement has caused...