Society, power and culture in medieval Castile
Scientic Supervisor / Contact Person
Name and Surname
Óscar Villarroel-González
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Localization & Research Area
Faculty / Institute
Faculty of Geography and History
Department
American and medieval history and historigraphical sciences
Research Area
Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC)
MSCA & ERC experience
Research group / research team hosted any MSCA fellow?
No
Research group / research team have any ERC beneficiaries?
No
Research Team & Research Topic
Research Team / Research Group Name (if any)
Society, power and culture in medieval Castile
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Brief description of the Research Team / Research Group / Department
Spoccast is a consolidated research group with the mention of excellent by the UCM. It involves professors and researchers from various Spanish and French centres. It focuses on the interdisciplinary study of the late medieval period, on the interrelationship between politics, society and culture, with various lines of work.
It was founded by Professor Miguel Ángel Ladero Quesada and is currently directed by Professor José Manuel Nieto Soria. In the last twenty years it has developed several research projects of the Spanish Ministry of Science directed by Professor Nieto Soria (HAR2016-76174-P, HAR2013-42211, HAR2010-16762, HUM2006-05233) and currently by him and Óscar Villarroel González (PID2020-113794GB-I00: https://www.pacnecon.org/inicio).
It was founded by Professor Miguel Ángel Ladero Quesada and is currently directed by Professor José Manuel Nieto Soria. In the last twenty years it has developed several research projects of the Spanish Ministry of Science directed by Professor Nieto Soria (HAR2016-76174-P, HAR2013-42211, HAR2010-16762, HUM2006-05233) and currently by him and Óscar Villarroel González (PID2020-113794GB-I00: https://www.pacnecon.org/inicio).
Research lines / projects proposed
The group currently has several lines of research:
- Social relations and conflict: political society (nobility, cities, Church); social tensions and transformations; processes of oligarchisation, political, economic and social foundations of emerging social groups; negotiation practices in their various spheres of expression; religious factors of tension (Judeo-conversion, processes of religious affirmation).
- Political-institutional structures: manifestations both central, associated with the monarchy (central administration, royal bureaucracy, taxation, army, diplomacy); and local (councils, episcopal seats) and territorial (lordships, dioceses).
- Representative practices: political use of cultural, propagandistic and ideological instruments at the service of the political and social affirmation of the most influential groups in their various spheres of interest, both within the kingdom and internationally.
- Social relations and conflict: political society (nobility, cities, Church); social tensions and transformations; processes of oligarchisation, political, economic and social foundations of emerging social groups; negotiation practices in their various spheres of expression; religious factors of tension (Judeo-conversion, processes of religious affirmation).
- Political-institutional structures: manifestations both central, associated with the monarchy (central administration, royal bureaucracy, taxation, army, diplomacy); and local (councils, episcopal seats) and territorial (lordships, dioceses).
- Representative practices: political use of cultural, propagandistic and ideological instruments at the service of the political and social affirmation of the most influential groups in their various spheres of interest, both within the kingdom and internationally.
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