UCOPress has just published “Materiales para el estudio de la muerte”, a book providing resources and perspectives for the academic study of death across different disciplines

UCOPress acaba de publicar Materiales para el estudio de la muerte. Una aproximación metodológica a través de la documentación pontevedresa en el siglo XVIII, de la Dra. Helena Rodríguez Villar. Se trata de una obra derivada a partir del corpus documental de su tesis doctoral, titulada Los comportamientos religiosos en Pontevedra y sus tierras en el Antiguo Régimen, y defendida en la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela a finales del año 2023. El trabajo se centra en el análisis de las diversas fuentes documentales utilizadas a lo largo de seis años de investigación, principalmente testamentos, registros parroquiales y documentación generada…

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25 de November de 2024

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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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30 de June de 2011

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The University of Córdoba Press has published “Las cofradías cordobesas del Santísimo Sacramento. El caso de Espejo en la Edad Moderna”

The origins, nature, and purposes of sacramental confraternities are essential aspects for understanding the flourishing of these brotherhoods in the Catholic world, especially after the Council of Trent. An example can be found in the case of the Córdoba town of Espejo: a confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament that emerged in a rural setting and reached heights of true splendor. The feast of Corpus Christi and its octave, in which this sacramental institution played a special role, were utilized by ecclesiastical and civil authorities, who joined forces to achieve their respective objectives: to comply with the dictates of higher authority…

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5 de April de 2011