The University of Córdoba Press has published “Franciscanos, místicos, herejes y alumbrados”

At the beginning of the 16th century, the foothills of Sierra Morena and its valley were experiencing a turbulent period: demographic and urban growth, a production boom, increased trade, the emergence of large landed estates and the cortijo... There was also growing seigneurial pressure and ongoing tension between the feudal nobility and the emerging modern state, poor harvests, and successive subsistence crises. In this context, there was an unprecedented rise in religious and spiritual concerns, in which neither the Church nor the Tribunal of the Holy Office, established at the end of the 15th century, would remain uninvolved. A broad…

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“The University of Córdoba Press has published “El maoísmo en España y el Tribunal de Orden Público (1964–1976)”

The approach taken by this study, authored by Horacio Roldán Barbero, Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Córdoba, has a dual nature: political and legal. It is political in that it analyzes a phenomenon of clear ideological significance, and legal because it addresses the responses provided by public order laws and the specialized tribunal in the matter. From the first perspective, it describes the common aspects of Maoism in Spain, identifying the main groups of this tendency and their objectives, with particular attention to two organizations: the PCE Marxist-Leninist and the PCE-International, without neglecting the analysis of several…

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The University of Córdoba Press has published “La música de las catedrales andaluzas y su proyección en América”

This book, coordinated by Antonio García Abásolo, Professor of American History at the University of Córdoba, is the result of activities carried out within the excellence program Andalusia and Latin America: Cultural Exchanges and Transfers, sponsored by the Regional Government of Andalusia. Its aim is to incorporate colonial music into the traditional themes of Americanism. “Colonial music” is the name usually given to the music that was performed, and sometimes also composed, in cathedrals and other institutions with a music chapel, such as collegiate churches, some convents, and certain missionary centers. This work primarily addresses music composed or performed in…

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UCO publications at Book Day in Manila

The publications of the University of Córdoba were represented, through the Instituto Cervantes, at International Book Day held in Manila (Philippines), helping to enrich the Spanish-language publishing collections on display and, in particular, to showcase the research and studies carried out at the University of Córdoba and in Spain on the Spanish presence in the Philippines. Specifically, the Publications Service exhibited the texts "Vida municipal en Manila (siglos XVI y XVIII)", "Las polémicas Iglesia-Estado en Filipinas. La posición de la Iglesia ante la cobranza de los tributos en las encomiendas y las restituciones a finales del siglo XVI", and "El…

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The University of Córdoba Press has published “Simetría y clases cristalinas”

The University of Córdoba Publications Service has just published Julieta Mérida García’s book "Simetría y clases cristalinas", which, starting from the concept of symmetry, examines the elements of symmetry without translation, their matrix representation, and the elements and operations involved, before going on to address symmetry groups, their classes and theorems, and concluding with a description of the 32 crystal classes and the tetragonal, orthorhombic, cubic, hexagonal and trigonal, monoclinic and triclinic systems.

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