Sections of the 11th Scientific Meeting

Note: The 11th Scientific Meeting will follow the same procedure used in the previous meetings of the FEHM. Each session will start with a keynote lecture, followed by the public presentation of the papers received. Time allocated to each paper will depend on the number of papers accepted in each section. Each session will end with a round of questions.

List of sections

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Section A. The Absolutist State and the Spanish Monarchy.

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Over the last decades, our knowledge of the political situation in Europe during the Early Modern Period has greatly increased. In this context, the conglomerate we call Spanish Monarchy is now seen as being alive and changing, rich in subtleties, upheld by a careful balance of strength, and subject to both internal and external pressures. Today, this complex reality is analysed not so much from the viewpoint of political and institutional history. Instead, it is dealt with by analysing the nature and ramifications of power, as well as the way it emanates from the social model of the Old Regime.

It is therefore interesting to explore and discuss the nature of regal power and – of course – the visualisation of power and its exercise through discourse, images and other types of evidence of various origins. We will also discuss the different levels of the Administration of the State and their difficult coordination, as well as the territorial arrangement of a Monarchy covering various areas – Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas –, with well-defined and disparate cultural, social and political connotations.

  • Section A.1. The King.
    • Coord. Antonio Luis Cortés Peña
  • Section A.2. Images of power.
    • Coord. Jesús A. Marina Barba
  • Section A.3. The administration.
    • Coord. Francisco Sánchez-Montes González
  • Section A.4. The territories.
    • Coord. Inmaculada Arias de Saavedra Alías

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Section B. Conflicts and Violence in the Early Modern Period

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In the Old Regime, society was rife with conflict. This unquestionable reality requires thorough analyses to show how conflict and violence were deeply rooted in the various spheres of life. In this field, society and people’s ideas jointly offer very revealing explanations about daily life in Early Modern Times.

Justice, with its role of social moderator – which it did not always fulfil – could contribute to settling conflicts, but also exerted legal violence. This contradiction between discourses highlighting the desired social harmony and the violent practices that erupted everywhere in the public and private sphere was a constant feature in everyday life.

Violence and conflict are spelled with capital letters when uprisings break out or in the stormy sea of war. Such elements were inherent to the Old Regime, and it is urgent to redefine them in the light of their wide-ranging pervasive implications for the common people – besides important public figures – who experienced and suffered them.

  • Section B.1. Justice.
    • Coord. Inés Gómez González
  • Section B.2. Society and daily violence.
    • Coord. Margarita Mª. Birriel Salcedo
  • Section B.3. Uprisings and rebellions
    • Coord. Manuel Barrios Aguilera
  • Section B.4. War.
    • Coord. Miguel Molina Martínez

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Section C. Keynote lectures

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  • Section C.1.
    • El Rey. Juan Luis Castellano Castellano.
  • Section C.2.
    • Don Antonio o la imaginación histórica. Carlos Martínez Shaw.
  • Section C.3.
    • Los moriscos en nuestros laberintos. Una revisión crítica en el IV Centenario de la Expulsión. Manuel Barrios Aguilera.
  • Section C.4.
    • Los magistrados de la Audiencia de Sevilla en el siglo XVIII. Inmaculada Arias de Saavedra Alías.