Fernando Bouza

• Complutense University of Madrid

In this paper, I focus on the profound changes that have taken place over the last thirty years regarding the way in which historians approach Hapsburg Portugal (1580-1640), and highlight the important contribution made by António Manuel Hespanha in this matter. The way in which the period has been subjected to a process of historical resignificati...

Resumen Este trabajo se interesa por las dimensiones expresivas de la escritura durante los siglos XVI y XVII a partir de una reflexión sobre las formas materiales como creadoras de sentido, en especial por medio del recurso a la escritura de mano propia. Se propone que el uso de la holografía manuscrita encerraba una economía particular del tiempo...

In 1670, in Brussels, a printed advertisement announced the auction of a valuable set of a hundred paintings, property of the late Fernando Alejandro de Portugal. A printed broadside announced the sale, and included the names of the artists and titles of the works, as well as their formats and the material form of the pieces, in some cases. Therefo...

The Royal Council of Castile scrutinized life and customs of a seventheenth century Spanish entitled nobleman in 1689 to determine whether he was capable of governing his own house and his seigneurial domains. As a result of the reserved procedure, the nobleman was declared incompetent, and consequently the Crown took the administration of their st...

La propuesta de establecer una imposición nueva sobre el consumo de hierba mate paraguaya en 1637 permite analizar los mecanismos por los que el gobierno hispano de Indias tomaba algunas de sus decisiones a mediados del siglo XVII a partir de la construcción de un saber local basado en un conocimiento práctico y experimentado. La búsqueda de person...

El articulo se propone el estudio de la participacion de particulares, ante todo libreros e impresores, en la publicacion y circulacion de libros de tematica religiosa durante los siglos XVI y XVII en el ambito iberico. La participacion de estos costeadores en el atractivo mercado del libro impreso fue mayor de lo que se ha imaginado. De hecho, en...

The article offers different files related to Francisco de Quevedo. The documents are preserved in the collection of the notary's office of the Chamber of Royal Council of Castile in the National Historical Archive of Madrid. Due to these documents, it is possible to understand the relation of Quevedo with the censorial procedure of the printed boo...

El objetivo principal de este artículo es el análisis de una serie de historias y descripciones generales de Galicia que, datadas a lo largo de las cuatro primeras décadas del siglo XVII, fueron obra de Hernando de Ojea, João Salgado de Araujo, Juan Fernández de Boán Temes Araújo y Gregorio de Lobariñas Feijoo. De este último, asimismo, se document...

In the long reign of Philip II, the period between the Invincible Armada and the king's death is doubtless a time in which crisis prevails and historiography throws on it a gloomy conviction, in spite of the fact that not many studies have been dedicated to it. The Monarchy must pay attention to urgent and various tasks (epidemics, revolts, financi...

From 1588 to 1598, Portugal was seriously threatened by the supporters of the Prior do Crato, who attempted to restore D. António to the throne. After the landing of the Pretender on the Portuguese coast in 1589 in company of Sir Francis Drake, the fear of a new English intervention continued to grow. To this threat from abroad a second was added,...

The innovative printing proposals of Pedro de Disses are studied in relation to the necessities of the seventeenth-century Spanish press on the basis of original documentation from the Council of Castile (1685). A series of new data allows us to know this inventor, establishing his Burgundian origin, his dedication to the art of ivory, and his link...

Francisco Gutiérrez de los Ríos y Córdoba, tercer conde de Fernán Núñez, bien conocido como autor (El hombre práctico. Sevilla?: 1686), también se dedicó activamente a la escritura de cartas. Unas seis mil cartas fueron remitidas por él entre 1679 a 1684, reuniendo, así, una variada correspondencia que puede ser estudiada gracias a una fuente docum...

The innovative printing proposals of Pedro de Disses are studied in relation to the necessities of the seventeenth-century Spanish press on the basis of original documentation from the Council of Castile (1685). A series of new data allows us to know this inventor, establishing his Burgundian origin, his dedication to the art of ivory, and his link...

The inventories of books and paintings belonging to D. Duarte of Braganza and found in some of his houses of Évora, Oropesa and Madrid, provide a better understanding of one of the most interesting figures in Portugal during the rule of the Philips. A son of Infanta D. Catarina and brother of Duke D. Teodósio, his estates in Castile are considered...

Spain, Europe and the Atlantic world. Essays in honour of John H. Elliott. Edited by Richard L. Kagan and Geoffrey Parker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xv+359. £35. - - Volume 40 Issue 1 - FERNANDO BOUZA

Los grandes espectáculos cortesanos, así como la etiqueta, el ceremonial palaciego y los distintos rituales monárquicos pueden ser considerados expresiones de la particular cultura política que se desarrolló en Europa a lo largo de la Alta Edad Moderna. El presente trabajo intenta explicar, en primer lugar, cuál era el papel asignado a fiestas y a...

RESUMEN : El autor considera las diversas posibilidades que se tenian en el pensamiento castellano de la época a la hora de "ver" Cataluña, concluyendo que se "ven" 10s particularismos catalanes, incluso con una cierta admiraci6n. RESUM: La visió de Catalunya en el pensament castell&. Una Catalunya entrevista en llibres i 'memorabilia' de cortesans...