MODERN HISTORY

Author: ZARZOSO ORELLANA ALFONSO.
Year: 2003.
University: POMPEU FABRA [www.upf.edu].
Place of defense: INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DE HISTORIA JAUME VICENS VIVES.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA.

Summary: The investigation takes as its starting point the formation and consolidation of the institutional forms of medical and scientific tradition developed by the government of the city of Barcelona over the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Yconcretada in Estudi General, as a form of public performance their political interests. The result of the War of Succession and reforms in this area by the new authorities borbónicas put an end to that tradition and is not founded on a project-specific scientific renewal. The thesis examines in depth strategies and passable roads, alternative to the model of training imposed by medical professionals college Catalans mid-century. Representatives of such initiatives shared with a specific part of the Catalan bourgeoisie, after its bid for the introduction of new forms of education suited to their needs, the political project which sought to fit a new reality in the Catalan Spanish crown. In this regard, particular attention is given to the proposed reform of medicine driven by certain physicians in the city of Barcelona, which sought a new professionalism from the establishment of medicine as a scientific discipline by building a knowledge objective. Analysis of the strategies of professionalism gives way to the study of the encounter between the healer and society. After an evaluation of the implementation of the medical college in Catalonia eighteenth century and established the limits of public assistance for the period, social and medical, takes into consideration two instruments: the recruitment of medical professionals by municipalities and the institutionalization of forms of association urban mutual aid in disease and death. The findings shed new light on the scope of social medicine college, putting into question the image of a restricted access to that medicine by an important sector of the rural and urban population of Catalonia.

Author: CORONAS MANCEBO AMELIA.
Year: 2003.
University: GRANADA [www.ugr.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS.

Summary: From a supporting introduction of the topic and a statement of the sources used (literary, ecclesiastical and legal and economic, demographic and testamentales), it made a presentation on the methodology to be followed in the study of the topic. Over the first three chapters are conducting a study of historical dowry, focusing in particular on the time to develop the argument, this is the second half of the seventeenth century, concentrating aspects fundamentale, especially from the point of socially and economically. The fourth chapter sets out the parameters of society Granada at the time, centránsose so especvial in Appel, women in the various estamentso and social groups. From here, the chapters that follow conducted a detailed study of the dowry through the studying of the following aspects, home, household furnishings and appliances, clothing and accessories for women, plantería, orfrebería, jewelry, utensils and household goods and one final chapters devoted to the analysis of trade-related utensils of women. They close the study about conslusiones that reflects the most outstanding contributions of the investigation. As an appendix to cuarpo of the thesis is added an appendix documentary in which, apart from standard documents, the most important contribution is the database on the economic value of their skills in different social strata. It adds a glosaico terms to the use and literature used.

Author: ALFONSO SANTORIO PAULA.
Year: 2004.
University: MÁLAGA [www.uma.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS.

Summary: The Doctoral Thesis "The Nobility entitled Malaga in the eighteenth century and their networks sociales.Interrelaciones between the nobility and the regional court" addresses a topic virtually unprecedented in the istoriografía Malaga, with the sole exception of the Memory Master filed the same author and defended a few years ago. The investigation consists of an introduction and three chapters with the contents referred to below. The Introduction is explicit assumptions historiographical, metología followed and documentary sources and bibliographic utilizadas.El chapter initial plant a "state of play" about studies on the nobility at the national level, which anchors this basic research . segunddo deals with the historical context in which it operates work as well as the general characteristics of the local nobility: privileges degrees lineages, religiosity and cultura.El third deepens the study prosográfico of the houses (political and marital property) , economic fundamentals, etc.pasando then a biographical analysis, character by character, the different Graduates of Castile that habitanban in Malaga during the century illustrated. The thesis was completed with the corresponding conclusions, accompanied by pictures, diagrams, graphs and explanatory diagrams.

Author: MAESO BUENASMAÑAS JUAN ALFONSO.
Year: 2004.
University: NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA [www.uned.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA- UNED.

Summary: The study of the eighteenth century Spanish expeditions conforms an item characterized within the historiografia Spanish and Latin American. There historians enshrined, a comprehensive bibliography and even categories of classification and analysis established. This thesis aims to provide this wealth of knowledge and a more extensive analytical those available in the monograph published so far on a number of Spanish naval expeditions to Argentina's Patagonia in the eighteenth century, some of them virtually unknown. They were designed and executed with an acceptable level of organization and means to implement ambitious and complex programs, as defined by the authorities and metropolitan virreinales Madrid and Buenos Aires, catering to very different needs and objectives and substance complementary geostrategic economic, cartographic and colonizers. In this thesis are circumstances narrated each and every one of them, attempting to establish its type, its general features, its consequences and its significance in the context of the history of Spain America.

Author: COZAR GUTIERREZ RAMON.
Year: 2004.
University: CASTILLA-LA MANCHA [www.uclm.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE LETRAS DE CIUDAD REAL.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE LETRAS.

Summary: The Doctoral thesis Municipal government and Oligarquías. The public offices of the town of Albacete in the s. XVIII, pursues two main objectives: To examine the evolution of the municipal government from obtaining the privilege of villazgo in 1375 to obtain capital of the province in 1833. Studying the municipal institution during the s. XVIII and above all, the human element involved in it in order to analyze socially to the ruling oligarchy.

Author: MELGOSA OTER ÓSCAR RAUL.
Year: 2004.
University: BURGOS [www.ubu.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD HUMANIDADES Y EDUCACIÓN.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD HUMANIDADES Y EDUCACIÓN.

Summary: This thesis has dealt with the study of the disease and the death of members of the Royal House of Austria and the response of the city of Burgos, its institutions and neighbors, before these two realities of human existence. Therefore, its chronological context are the two centuries during which this dynasty ruled the destinies of the Hispanic Monarchy and its spatial framework is offered by the city of Arlanzón in this period. Based primarily from sources generated and maintained by the major governing institutions of life Burgos at the time, the municipal Regiment Cathedral and the Cabildo, the work has been divided into five chapters in response to so many other key objectives. First, it has analyzed the impact of the disease within the royal family and the reaction in the city of Burgos, the means to be utilized to achieve the restoration: the prayer to seek divine favor. Secondly, we have sought to examine the channels through which came the news of an obituary Region to the city, the formulas for its spread and behavior that should observe the neighborhood from that moment. Thirdly, it has tackled the analysis of intense activity aimed at organizing acts of tribute and farewell to the deceased and real person to answer everything that was considered necessary to mark some real funeral: holding votes in favor of his soul, organizing an embassy of condolence to present the condolences of the city on the Court, providing lutos and wax, implementation of a funeral monument, commissioned a sermon, poetic call for a competition. Then, it has studied the development of the funeral, which consisted (processions, liturgical acts, preaching the sermon Tomb), where he developed (scenarios: squares, streets and temples of the city), by whom and how participating in them (representing society Burgos). Finally, it has sought to establish how much cost some real funeral, how it is financed and how they justify the expense. In conclusion, it has investigated the conduct of a Spanish city, their ways to react to the illness or death of the figure who occupied the pinnacle of society at the time, the king and his family. All this within a social, political, economic, religious, mental, cultural and artistic Specifically, the Burgos of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which has brought together researchers from the privileged vantage point of observation that offer these two extraordinary situations : prayer and real funeral, looking for its meaning.

Author: DIAZ DE LA GUARDIA LOPEZ LUIS.
Year: 2004.
University: NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA [www.uned.es].
Place of defense: GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA UNED.

Summary: This dissertation focuses its analysis on the longing and need that possessed certain individuals formed into groups to participate in the local political power during the end of the Middle Ages yel first century of the modern era in Castile. Groups of individuals with a certain transcendence social and possessing a priori or that, through certain processes, reaching the rank of State, a category recognized by the society and by the political power and they become ver1.aderos social partners. Within this juncture is developing this thesis should realize that temporal and geographic areas, although it does lax mind confined to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and the space compewtencia territorial attached to the Royal Chancery of Grenada. Research that, given different answers given in the Corona de Castilla to the demands of local political participation, locates its subject reviewed in a public law institution known but apparently little or nothing studied in depth: half of offices in Councils . Institution not only noble, but affects and under public law Spanish, which is treated within the long-term historical processes, analyzing previously developments theoretical power medieval and modern, as well as from the thought of law, and also exploring at the core partners of these struggles to translate the aspirations for power: pecheros and noble. Structured under arises where this institution that seeks to remedy disputes policies defined and studied and their means of compliance in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Being Finally, the definition for it: Half of offices concejil Castilla is an institution of public law and modern bajomedieval (Legal System for the reception of Common Law), which affects the quality of municipal officers, consisting giving half of some or all charges in nature añal and not disposed of, and making up the floor of Conceo, a social group with its own identity recognized by law, become State, and the other half to another group, also incorporated in the State, and therefore with iguan right to hold title to the rest of the municipal offices.

Author: GARCIA GARRALON MARTA.
Year: 2004.
University: NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA [www.uned.es].
Place of defense: GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: UNED.

Summary: The object of investigation leading to this thesis is based on estudiodel Royal College Seminary San Telmo Seville (1681-1847), born at the end of the seventeenth century, under the protection of real and with the aim of gathering ~ orphans from the streets to teach trades pilot, sailor or gunner of the Race Indies. The historical analysis of this institution is a comprehensive and covers many facets of operation of the College Seville. The chapters which divides this research plots focus on the requirements for entry into the seminar, the training received by schoolchildren of San Telmo, shipments made by schoolchildren, examinations and other circumstances surrounding the investigation of the pilots santelmistas, m economic conditions in which the college moved Seville and management carried out, the entry of boys in the noble educational project of San Telmo, an analysis of personnel involved in the establishment, or the various inspections conducted on the institution. On the other hand, the University of Mareantes was a corporation born in the sixteenth century (1569-1793), which is made up of the pilots, and maestres naos owners of the Running of the Indies. Their status as administrator of the Colegio de San Telmo in Seville during the first 105 years of the educational institution, directly linked the existence of this partnership seafarers to the Seminar, which his study is necessary to exist close performance between the two entities.

Author: RENOM PULIT MERCÈ.
Year: 2004.
University: POMPEU FABRA [www.upf.edu].
Place of defense: I.U. DE HISTORIA JAUME VICENS I VIVES.
Place of preparation: INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DE HISTORIA.

Summary: The research contributes to the study of the liberal revolution Spanish from the analysis of the process in the town of Sabadell (Mataró municipality in the province of Catalonia, with 2,212 inhabitants 1778 and 4,543 on 1825), a town devoted to agriculture and wool textile production, which later became the main industrial center lanero Spanish, along with neighboring Terrassa. It is a vision of detail, not generalizable, which allows perceive the close relationship of the process of change with the circumstances of each locality, the different implications of different social groups and the variety of ways in which the liberal revolution could heat up . Among the main findings of the investigation include the following. First, the finding of the close relations between men elected in the municipal elections in the early stages constitutional (1812 and 1820-1823) with the most active groups in protest and social mobilization to end the decades of the century XVIII, in particular, the mutiny of bread of 1789, while the representatives of the most dynamic sectors of the local economy (manufacturers and wool farmers mansions prosperous present for local governments designation absolutist) were losers in these early stages . Secondly, the study of the intense social conflict related Keeps (food and water), the pressure to include the lowering of prices of meat and bread in the auction leases of municipal monopolies at the expense of children revenue for the local finances, with effect from Community economic redistribution, or the denunciation of misrule in the broad sense. Finally, an approach to the definition of the various interests involved in the conflict and in the actions of the groups represented in the councils of the various stages (including a census of governments between 1718 and 1845) as well as the generation the cultures and projects faced in the early stages constitutional studied in the town, especially the incompatibility between liberal economic aspirations and political representation.

Author: TORRA FERNÁNDEZ LÍDIA.
Year: 2004.
University: POMPEU FABRA [www.upf.edu].
Place of defense: I.U. DE HISTORIA JAUME VICENS I VIVES.
Place of preparation: I.U. DE HISTORIA JAUME VICENS I VIVES.

Summary: The thesis is divided into four sections comprising seven chapters, two volumes and 691 pages. The first part focuses first chapter and a state of the environment issue the lengthy debate in recent decades by the economic historiografia on whether changes in the supply textiles at the pre-industrial stage, introduced major changes in the demand for textiles in the population, or well, conversely, is considered the demand and consumption as a result of changes in supply and important industrial process in Europe for centuries XVII-XIX. My interest in this area has been directed to stress the contributions of those historiografia that have prompted the discussions and debate. The next item presents the guidelines of the thesis and a first analysis of the structure, utility, characteristics and problems presented notarial sources used mainly writes training and renewal of corporations, inventories post-mortem shopkeepers fabrics ( botiguers of teixits), and inventories post-mortem of individuals, members of different groups classified by various socio areas, whose inventory was made between the second half of the seventeenth century and the end of the eighteenth century. The second chapter discusses the evolution of markets and fairs, and the stable development of trade in the modern Catalonia. At this point shows the development of distribution systems to wholesale and retail textiles through whose networks were related artisans, manufacturers, distributors and consumers. Here are the foundations of the process of integration of the internal market within the framework of territorial Principality, and the extension of trade relations between wholesalers and small retailers to other jurisdictions in the state. In the second part of the job, which is the third to fifth chapters, he examines the internal structure of the business and botigues of teixits. The study was conducted to observe the changes and evolution of these businesses from the second half of the seventeenth century and the end of the eighteenth century in relation to the number of partners, their work and contributions in liquid capital, and work in genres (third chapter). Then, in the fourth chapter discusses changes in the mechanisms of the largest marketing and retail from a sample of sixty establishments Catalans in the period 1650-1800. Textile stocks having these businesses at the time of inventory has enabled análisi depth on the size, composition and choice textiles and exam of trends and changes in supply in the short, medium and long term (fourth chapter ). In the fifth chapter looks at the patterns and fluctuations in retail prices of different genres of wool and cotton supply establishments in Barcelona. Its evolution has been compared to the prices of different priced food distributed at retail by drogueros over the same period in Barcelona. Centra the third part of the job and it corresponds to the sixth chapter, a thorough analysis environment characteristics of commercial credit, and consumer credit in botigues of teixits Barcelona between 1650 and 1800. The study shows different images environment the social composition of the clientele of botigues of teixits. It is important to underscore the rise in purchases of textiles to credit menestrales as it moves the period studied, especially in the second half of the eighteenth century. In the latter part of the chapter examines detallad 8 amente and 6bd l movement of a major commercial establishment in Barcelona during the period 1711 to 1735 through its accounts. The example allows different perspectives analysis environment seasonality of sales, compartamiento consumer functionality and uses of textiles, as well as a detailed analysis on the evolution of the mechanisms of consumer credit in that particular establishment. Finally, the fourth and final part of the work includes an analysis of a sample of 3,100 Inventories post-mortem of individuals belonging to different groups socio Barcelona in the period 1650-1800. The magnitude of the analyzed data has enabled monitoring trends in demand in the short, medium and long term, and changes in consumption patterns of textiles from the town, both in terms of clothing and utensils staff domestic what larrgo the period 1650-1800.

Author: CAMPABADAL BERTRAN MIREIA.
Year: 2004.
University: BARCELONA [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: REAL ACADEMIA DE BUENAS LETRAS DE BARCELONA.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD DE BARCELONA.

Summary: The Royal Academy of Arts in Barcelona Good, born as a meeting depersonas relevanes between the nobility and literature, with the desire to cultivate the sacred and profane history (especially in Catalonia), but without detracting from the natural philosophies, moral and political neither the eloquence and poetry, became the framework for action for much of the enditos most important eighteenth century and hosted a number of projects that have completed all, would have supplied a major boost to the Catalan culture. This dissertation presents, firstly, a synthesis of academic activity carried out during its first century of existence through the climate of interest in the Catalan culture in all its aspects. Secondly, it addresses issues such as the internal workings of the corporate life or transcendence cultural, social, historical, literatia and lingúistica which was at Barcelona and the Catalonia of the time. It also provides an anthology of different dissertations and academic poetry, hitherto unpublished, and a full repertoire of pieces of the materials stored in the file corporate (repertoire for a more rápda consultation can be found on a CD-ROM) .

Author: VÁZQUEZ LIJÓ JOSÉ MANUEL.
Year: 2004.
University: SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA [www.usc.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA..

Summary: The Matricula Sea consisted of a filing system at sea, whose main objective was to improve the supply of crews for the Navy. Following the precedent fallído registry official ratings sorted by Philip IV, the Bourbons largely adopted the model of "systeme de classes" established in France in times of Colbert. The enrollment of ratings, leading and embarcacianes was entrusted to the staff of the body politic called to the ministry of the Navy, whose competence in this regard were bounded especially in the legislation of the Admiralty in 1737 and even more in the ordinance 1-l -1791. The plan of this administration, as defined in this legislation just was via altered, and changes in the demarcations (provinces and sub-sea) were also scarce during the eighteenth century. Lack of incentive pay these managers, including the subdelegation, made fácilmen1e sobornables, and the lack of armed force in its service undermined its effective authority. The duty hardest regulated under a system of rotating crews, which meant enrollment was serving in the fleet of war. For the sake of a comprehensive and equitable sharing of this burden, in the second half of the eighteenth century normally refused requests for exemption pair cases not covered by the ordinance, emphasized the rigor of the medical examinations of registered before declare inhábiles and even then stopped exemption enacted in 1751 for all employers and owners of boats, and stiffened the requirements for voluntarily causing in enrollment. And since given decade from 1790, to enjoy the exemption campaign, patterns and "terrestrial" enabled due afford the hook proxy. Replacements authorized afternoon, always ates of drawing lots and never members of the gang seized, it seems to be agreed individually, without union involvement, and involved a desembolo economically. Theoretically, the service in the Navy was offset by a number of privileges granted to enlisted, military order (exemption from fifths and cams for the exercises, and accommodations), judicial (the jurisdiction of the Navy) and economic (exclusivity Maritime activities for practice). This exclusivity was very controversial, in counterpoint to measures to liberalize the labor market, and even counterproductive for themselves enrolled in circumstances of extreme shortage of manpower authorized as a result of massive recruits for the royal fleet. Permits were vetted at the time bound and tied to the provision of service in the Navy. From any point to have that many more were "land" to be used without a license that authorized by law, a fraud fueled by employers and owners who premieron blind eye to the competent authorities. The institutional cooperation required to guarantee the rights of those enrolled often did not materialize on the other hand, conflicts of powers of the authorities of the Navy with the Army and especially with the local justices were on the agenda. This absence of real stimulating enrollment, joined the wage freeze while inflation evolucionóal upward. Some salaries, as well as pensions and disability benefits payable accrued for services in the Navy were paid with considerable delay. All this led to the concealment of seafarers, a supregistro in lists deductible falling from the decade of 1780 the figures go up when the skilful seamanship of inhábiles (pensioners and invalids) and patterns. And on the other hand, encouraged the defections were fired in war situations, where the meager results of the combination of severe penalties pardons and newspapers, without forgetting that merchant and corsarías sheltered fugitives who were not in condicianes to demand at the working level. Since the fall give mobilized began 8 when 5ae units of the fleet of the Navy continued to grow, especially in the coyuhtura war finisecular, those enrolled were forced to accumulate consecutive and probably to alleviate the low mutilation, disease a military deaths during delivery, increased competition emergency vague, convicts and volunteers, that far from alleviating aggravated the problem of poorly skilled watercraft ratings Spanish. In addition, enrollment was complicated gestianar, possibly discouraged inversianes in the fisheries sector, failed enlistment and control of all professionals in the sea or completely cover the demands of crews for the Navy during wartime.

Author: LOPEZ ARANDIA MARIA AMPARO.
Year: 2004.
University: JAÉN [www.ujaen.es].
Place of defense: UNIVERSIDAD DE JAEN.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACION (UNIVERSIDAD DE JAEN).

Summary: THESIS THE OBJECTIVE IS THE STUDY OF THE FIGURE OF GUTIERRE GONZALEZ AND THE PROPOSED REFORM ECLESIÁSTICA THAT INTENTÓ CARRY OUT IN THE DIOCESE OF JAEN, THROUGH THE FOUNDATION OF A COFRADÍA IN HONOR TO DESIGN. WORK TO ESTABLISH THE AIM OF DIRECT CONNECTION BETWEEN THE CONTEXT OF SUCH PROJECT AND THE SEARCH FOR REFORM OF THE CHURCH AND THE REALITY OF ROME OF THE CENTURY INICIOS XVI WHERE GUTIERRE GONZALEZ RESIDIÓ. BOTH ISSUES DAN TRANSITION TO THE FILING OF THE BIOGRAPHY OF PERSONAJE, PROTONOTARIO APOSTÓLICO And MAYORDOMO SECRET OF LEON X; AUTHOR OF "BOOK OF CHRISTINA Doctrine," IN WHICH ARE RECOGEN NOVEDOSOS ASPECTS PEDAGÓGICOS, TEXT USED BY BOTH OF BASQUE QUIROGA AS BY FRAY JOHN OF ZUMÁRRAGA IN THE PROCESS EVANGELIZADOR OF MEXICO. ALSO, IT IS THE DEAL STUDY OF SOCIAL PURPOSE OF THE COFRADÍA, AND THE EFFECTS OF ITS SETTING TUVIERON IN THE CITY OF JAÉN. INCLUDES TWO APPENDICES DOCUMENTARY, LITERATURE AND SOURCES MANUSCRITAS.

Author: SANCHEZ GARCIA SERGIO.
Year: 2004.
University: ZARAGOZA [www.unizar.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFIA Y LETRAS.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFIA Y LETRAS.

Summary: Working institutional profile, with high political content, which is studying the changes and stays in the municipal government of Zaragoza in the period that elapses between 1650 and 1750. War of Succession and the transformations that make up the New Plant, which occurred at the beginning of the eighteenth century, are developments that justify the approach and objectives of the research, which lies several decades before and after these events to track and record consequences the fall better. We have consulted a number of files both locally and nationally, to discover new sources, in addition to reviewing the literature widely Zaragoza and Aragon of the period, although not exclusively. The work consists of eleven chapters, organized from calls functions of the municipality, paying each of them to the legislation, staff devoted to them, the issues most relevant period and especially balance changes and stays after 1707. The most important are the chapters on the political role of the city, hacendística and called, will serve the king. "At first, developments in the second half of the seventeenth century shows a continuity with the previous decades, maintaining a remarkable municipal autonomy against the monarchical power, aided primarily in the legal and institutional apparatus that was inserted Aragonese town, as well as the use of network citizen, namely the presence in the institutions of the king and the kingdom of persons belonging to the group the government had set aside Zaragoza thanks to its integration into the pockets of government-citizens (developed with extensive appendices news gathered on the public career of hundreds of people). Since 1707 the plant was fixing to almost absolute power to disappear elements, assuming the monarchy all appointments (although the alderman pervivieron families loyal citizens) and streamline the courts and tribunals. Chapter hacendístico explains the types and the evolution of revenues and costs, which culminated in the intervention of them by creditors, being relevant thereafter attitude pressure on the council exerted by the Church as an institution, mostly creditor, which canceled its capabilities. Attempts sanitation failed in the entire period. Importance of services to the king, who were behind the desire to control monarchist of the city and its serious problems fmancieros and its transformation since 1707, culminating with the introduction of the contribution, which corresponded to the management council, but not its control, the last point is of particular interest.

Author: SERRA SELLARÉS FRANCESC.
Year: 2005.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA [www.uab.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS DE LA UAB.
Place of preparation: ESCUELA DE POSTGRADO Y DE FORMACIÓN CONTINUADA.

Author: CEBALLOS-ESCALERA GILA ALFONSO DE.
Year: 2005.
University: NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA [www.uned.es].
Place of defense: GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE GOEGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.

Summary: The dissertation provides the results of an extensive and in-depth research on the Admiralty Spanish throughout the Modern Age, focusing on the performance of the motion by the three characters in their respective times ostentaron the title of general admirals: Infante Don Felipe (1737-1748), Prince of Peace (1807-1808) and the Infante Don Antonio / (1814-1817). Three sessions very interesting because in those three occasions took place marked attempts to form a single commander of all naval forces - especially in 1737 and again in 1807, was tried for the first time the creation of a permanent general staff and settled besides the groundwork for a maritime jurisdiction, military and commercial. The focus of the thesis is formed by three chapters, which reflect all the news of the three almirantazgos identified, which glosan detail the historical context of Admiralty naval respective admiral of the literature generally what it incarnate, and the story of the origins and historical development the institution in that period of his life, his legal and institutional competence and powers of the admiral, the organizational structure, the regular performance of his duties and service, and the gloss of their achievements and accomplishments and their economic aspects; and rosopografía their official major and minor. A subsequent chapter reflects the overall conclusions regarding these three almirantazgos, completing the thesis an appendix consisting of one hundred unpublished documents, an index of persons and places, and the relationship between documentary and archival sources, and the literature used.

Author: MOLINA PUCHE SEBASTIÁN.
Year: 2005.
University: MURCIA [www.um.es].
Place of defense: Facultad de Letras.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE LETRAS, UNIVERSIDAD DE MURCIA.

Summary: One of the main objectives of this research work has been to deepen our understanding of the workings and articulation of the complex social organization of the Modern Castilla from the family factor. To do this, select the extensive municipality of Chinchilla, Villena and the nine villages along the seventeenth century as a testing laboratory, essentially for two reasons: firstly the spatial context was very representative, because in the end, the greatest part of the Modern Castilla consisted primarily by small agrociudades or agrovillas as forming such jurisdictional unity. And secondly, the court proved to be elected chronological a key step in the evolution and formation of internal Castilians dominant groups, especially those operating at the local level, as it is in this century when culminates process oligarquización municipality Spanish, with all that this implies social level. If the election of context space in which we have developed the historical analysis was based on reasons of representation and significance, the social group was due to a reason even more important to achieve our aims: the same study we allowed to know what were the reasons and ways in which the ranking was based social locally. But not only that: by introducing the family as a factor analysis, the study of the social group also allowed us to know what were the formulas with those families who have up to maintain and perpetuate its prominent position in local society. For the definition and delimitation of that social group part of a methodology based on the analysis nominative and a clear theoretical principle: in Spanish society of the Old Regime the social hierarchy was based on the necessary confluence of three key variables: the possession of some strong economic fundamentals, control of the levers of power and the provision of social and public recognition. Regarding the observation of the behavior of family members of these elites was conducted through a methodology itself in the social history of the family. Thus, there has been rebuilding life cycles and social paths, the analysis of the networks of relationships, and social reconstruction of genealogies. All these techniques and working methods have provided us with the data necessary and sufficient to know the various strategies implemented by these families to try to achieve the ideal of perpetuation "of which we have spoken F. Chacon Jimenez. To achieve the desired perpetuation, the family is going to implement a whole series of strategies that focus primarily though not exclusively so, in two key moments of the life cycle: the marriage or creation of a new family unit, and death of the ascending. The crucial importance of strategies inheritance and marriage within the family set of strategies of social reproduction led us to focus our analysis on the uses for these families to inheritance and marriage in their policies. And the data obtained in this analysis were, without a doubt, truly revealing. In fact, like to bring M. Hernandez to the case of the oligarchy concejil Madrid, families object of our study showed that, far from what might be expected, there remained neither hereditary nor their practices in their political marriage, patterns of behavior inherent in a structure of lineages, which meant, among other things, a slowdown in patent 8 and its 83c processes of social promotion. Thus, the equal distribution of the estate became the general trend among testers forced heirs to the detriment of those other uses of inheritance that allowed the asset concentration in a few hands alone, and other resources that, indirectly, also constituted a form of the same objective (for example, sending some of the offspring to life convent). With regard to the political marriage, in the case of families studied the trend was generally a high degree of inbreeding group, and a relatively low importance of marriage within the kindred blood. The goal seemed to be not so much to strengthen the bonds with their parents as to create linkages and strengthen alliances with other families from the group of power. Of course, this modus operandi in both inheritance and marriage appeared to violate policy directly against all logic that had as its aim the maintenance of social hierarchies, social reproduction of the system and, of course, the family. But in fact was not the case: not follow a logic of their own family lineage did not mean that they were not involved in the "ideal of perpetuating" nor that desinteresaran by ascend socially. If seized in this way was because the group was still in the process of consolidation.

Author: ALEIXOS ALAPONT SANTIAGO.
Year: 2005.
University: VALENCIA [www.uv.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFIA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFIA E HISTORIA.

Summary: The dissertation focuses, as the title indicates, in providing D. Gregory Mayans (1699-1781) to the knowledge of the figure and work of D. Antonio Agustin (1517-1586), as well as its importance in the recognition of the prelate Aragonese as one of the great humanist Europe. Seen from a higher plane this thesis shows and discusses issues such as collateral footprint of humanistic Mayans, a connection with the whole Europe Illustrated and the strong will of the Valencian in publicizing the great works of Hispanic culture. As for the specific approach of the thesis, noting that deliberately shown that the knowledge of Mayans on the illustrious prelate been broadened with the passage of time, mainly on their own willingness to do so, as evidence the many notes and warnings mayansianas that have been added in appendix documentary. In line with his thinking, the scholar did not keep their own benefit his discourses and discoveries, on the contrary, strove to transmit to the whole of Europe. Similarly, studies the evolution of thought of how many Mayans matters addressed in this thesis (epigraphs, numismatics, knowledge of humanism, history, opening for European flows, and so on.). With regard to its structure into three parts; Study of the Figure of Augustine's work, and the epistolary, noting that it meets the intent of providing a complete overview of the areas of action in which Mayans focused to claim as Augustine one of the greatest humanists Spaniards and Europeans. Finally, note that we have tried to go to the original sources, they have given us pleasant surprises, as is the case with Anton Augustins lebens, Mantissa book rarissimo Antonio Augustini, the discovery of these bridges between Patiño and the family Augustine, and so on. It is conducting a study and comparison of various editions of works by Antonio Augustine. Finally, as also with regard to the Mayans epistolary Augustine, it goes to epistolary Mayansiano, both unpublished and published as a source documentary of the first magnitude, to know what Don Gregorio worked documentary sources.

Author: GOMAR ESCRIVA VICENTE.
Year: 2005.
University: VALENCIA [www.uv.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFIA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFIA E HISTORIA.

Summary: FILMS AND MODERN HISTORY: CATALOG AND STUDY OF PRODUCTION (1908-2004) The work is a study of historical ambientadas films in the Modern Age, according to the French historiography, and produced between 1908 and 2004 in the United States and European countries Western as Spain, France, Italy, Britain, Germany and Russia (USSR), and other countries in a time period in the history of cinema have highlighted. This has been done cataloging, classifying films response to the History of Cinema in the country of production, an interpretation on the attention they have received historical characters, and an assessment on the degree of film production in historical ambientadas the Modern Age taken in the different countries surveyed. The films scheduled are 624 and are grouped in two blocks, one on European and American films, and another specifically on filmography wholly or partly Spanish. Films production in whole or in part Spanish are 181, which represents a 29%, and European and American are 443, which represents an 71 /% of the same. Different films scheduled, depending on their nationality, have been classified in the History of the Cinema of the respective countries of Western Europe and the United States. Here we noticed the importance that some films have had on the development of cinema, according thematic preferences times of the various countries, and use social and political times that has been given. This grouping we divided into two major blocs in response to European production American, and specifically, the Spanish production. The filmography on which it has paid special attention in his study is one that has taken as a reference, the remarkable experiences of certain historical characters male and female. Among the male personalities who have had a greater cinematic treatment because of their courageous, adventurous, and especially seductive are: Christopher Columbus, Casanova and Caesar Borgia. This group includes, also, two Anglo-Saxon monarchs notable for their cruelty and perversity like Ricardo III and Henry VIII. Among the female characters have an outstanding group of young women and beautiful, that since the beginning of cinema became great muses, causing great admiration by the public. Among these is Lucrezia Borgia, Catherine II of Russia, Elizabeth I of England and Beatrice Cenci. All of them have in common is not to be masters of their own destinies, but victims of circumstances beyond their personal wills. Finally, the findings show us, as during different periods, the number of films in modern historical atmosphere have increased or decreased depending on different situations, whether political, economic, social and technological.

Author: PEÑA IZQUIERDO ANTONIO.
Year: 2005.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA [www.uab.es].
Place of preparation: ESCUELA DE POSTGRADO.

Summary: The change of dynasty of the austrias the borbones. Changes liderdo by Cardinal Pastucarrico. The time frame is crucial and the period between 1699 death of Jose Fernando de Bavaria, candidate for the succession and 1705 start of the war of succession in Spain and is based core processes Cortesen in Spain 1701-1702.