Trocadero. Revista del Departamento de Historia Moderna, Contemporánea, de América y del Arte

The aljama mosque of Sharis (Jerez de la Frontera): state of the question and reflections

2023-12-11T10:43:35+00:00

The remains that appeared in 2019 at the foot of the tower of the Cathedral of Jerez de la Frontera, under the skin of a building known as the Casa del Abad, correspond to the courtyard of the mosque that the Castilians used as a collegiate church. Now that the rehabilitation work on the complex has been halted, it seems an opportune moment to review the different historiographical positions on the location of the aljama of the old Sharis, and above all to offer a series of reflections from the field of art history that may contribute to opening up new avenues of research into the city's Islamic architecture.

Center and periphery? The construction context of the old archdiocese of Seville through workshops, works and quarries between 1400 and 1430.

2024-07-17T08:53:17+00:00

Since the nineties of the last century, the research on the cathedral of Seville has been delaying its construction by more than thirty years. This conclusion affects the interpretation of all the architecture erected in its archbishopric between 1400 and 1430. This article studies the stone and masonry architecture built between these dates both in the capital of Seville and in other cities administratively dependent on it, with the purpose of evaluating the primacy of Seville over its surroundings.

Private education and books in Cádiz (16th-17th centuries): an approach

2024-09-30T18:55:37+00:00

Based on the notarial protocols and the Chapter Acts, an approach is offered to private elementary education and the culture of books in Cádiz during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The contracts make it possible to know, among others, the identity of the teaching staff, the social status of the hires, origin, link with the student, age of the latter, content of teaching, duration of learning and cost. As for the book, the artisans, apprentices and hired officers, composition of the printing press, commissions and uses and trade are revealed, emphasizing figures such as Juan de Borja Gandía and Diego Arias.

Christianization processes in Peru: study of the sermons of Fernando de Avendaño (1600?-1649)

2024-09-23T08:52:27+00:00

This research is the result of the critical analysis of some pieces of a sermonary for Indians published in Lima in 1649. Its author was the Creole clergyman Fernando de Avendaño, who was influenced both by the effects of the relevant Third Council of Lima (1582-1583), as well as the consequences of what was called “the discovery of idolatry” by the priest and doctor Francisco de Ávila in the Central Sierra of Peru, in the district of the bishopric of Lima, starting in 1607. The important economic growth that occurred place in the viceroyalty of Peru led to the development of strong competing interests in the colony's society, among which were those of the Church at an institutional but also social level. Avendaño was a priest of Indians, or doctrinero, before becoming canon of the Lima cathedral. The objective is to understand, in a diachronic vision and in its most essential features, how the colonial social and economic context in which the sermons were written and the direct relation of this context with the social promotion of their author.

A monastic foundation at the Early Modern Age: the Augustian priory of Nuestra Señora de la Guía of Jerez de la Frontera (1623-1835)

2024-05-16T16:21:30+00:00

In this article I present a study of the origin of the priory of agustinians friars in Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz), and which was known in the past under the title of Nuestra Señora de la Guía. From the original location, outside the city walls, the augustinians moved to the interior of the town in 1623, turning this religious house into one of the most important in the Augustinian Province of Andalucía. It was the community that received large income and donations, partly due to the great devoticon felt by the people of Jer for the Virgen de la Guía or del Socorrom and that allowed to the augustinians to gradually embellish their convent and consolidate their presence in the social environment. Everythings came to the end with the disentailment provisions of minister Mendizábal in 1835.

The art of silversmithing in the streets and squares of the city of Cadiz: location of silversmiths during the 17th and 18th centuries

2024-10-02T15:12:09+00:00

The art of silversmithing became one of the main trades in Cadiz, exercised by silversmiths who managed to form their own guild. In the following article we try to approach the aspects that determined the functioning of the congregation, focusing specifically on the areas of the capital of Cadiz where the greatest activity was carried out, both in terms of the manufacture and sale of jewelry and the places of residence of the craftsmen, within a very favorable chronological framework in the city as were the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Route and return trips: the geonese Repeto Bechio marriage. Reconstruction of a family established in Cadiz

2024-07-04T10:21:38+00:00

The couple composed of the Genoese Esteban Repeto and Rosa del Bechio headed to the buoyant and prosperous city of Cadiz in 1724, where they developed part of their personal and proffessional lives, without ceasing to have contact with his native Genova. This research propose an exhaustive study on the lineage left in the capital of Cadiz and its constant contact with trade.

Echoes of the next overseas: approach to the relief and defense of Oran from the kingdom of Murcia

2024-09-30T18:48:21+00:00

Within the succession conflict for the spanish Crown (1702-1714) there are multiple secondary fronts awaiting a detailed historical study. This is the case of the defense and fall of Oran and Mazalquivir, North African enclaves of vital importance for the Hispanic Monarchy. For three hundred years they were supported by a contribution that fell -along with other territories- on the Kingdom of Murcia. This paper aims to carry out an approach to the little known effort from Murcia, at the critical moment of its loss for the Spanish Crown, in order to better understand the complex interaction of human, emotional and socio-political factors that were involved.

A noble woman facing death: the testament of the VIII marquise del Carpio

2024-10-14T09:46:15+00:00

The main objective of this article is to demonstrate female leadership in the reproduction of the noble house, exemplified in the case of the Marquisate of Carpio. To do this, we will try to analyze the last testamentary wills of VIII Marchioness of Carpio, Catalina de Haro, to find out the role that the women of the aristocracy obtained as titular heads of their own houses and the power they really achieved.

Sword and dress sword in the household of Burgos in the 18th century

2024-05-28T14:56:09+00:00

On average, 19% of Burgos households in the 18th century had at least one dress sword (on average, sword were present in 15.8% of the property inventories). Firstly, it will be shown that there were, nevertheless, significant differences in their availability between the different socio-professional categories and also according to social status and levels of wealth. Secondly, a temporal evolution that contrasts sharply with the presence of swords and dress sword in domestic interiors is found. Thirdly, it is stated clear that the quality (price) of swords improved throughout the 18th century.

Describing the empire: Pedro Alonso O'Crouley (1740-1817) and his Idea compendiosa del reino de Nueva España (1774)

2024-05-13T19:18:30+00:00

Analysis of the work written by Pedro Alonso O'Crouley, Idea compendiosa del reino de Nueva España (1774), and of the main aspects of its content: history, geography, economic resources, and the description of the isolated regions of Texas and New Mexico, with many informations about apaches and comanches tribes.

The Madrid-Manila flight of Elcano Unit (1926): hispano-americanist propaganda and the myth of the flying heroes

2024-09-30T17:34:46+00:00

The Madrid-Manila flight by the Elcano unit in 1926 was part of a series of prestigious flights promoted by Primo de Rivera's dictatorship. These raids were popular in many countries, turning their pilots into social celebrities. This paper analyzes the flight to the Philippines, the media attention it received, and how the government used it to promote its political agenda, spreading an optimistic nationalism based on technical modernity and Hispano-Americanism. Despite being overshadowed by the Plus Ultra, its complicated itinerary, the exotic nature of the journey, and its orientalist narrative allowed for its differentiation in mass media.

Woman, vote! The leading figure of Yosi Campos in Cadiz during the Spanish Second Republic

2024-04-01T04:32:04+00:00

This paper focuses its interest on the figure of Josefina Campos Morilla, alias Yosi Campos, a teacher and columnist who lived in Cádiz during the Primo de Rivera´s Dictatorship and the Second Republic. Throught her texts in the Cadiz newspapers, she fought for women rights and the political and electoral participation of women. She created the Republican Women´s Union in Cádiz and ran as candidate for Spanish election of 1933.

The persecution of the republican journalist Eduardo Gutiérrez Henríquez

2023-11-02T19:31:58+00:00

Few cases can be found, in the province of Cádiz, about political persecution against a journalist which could be compared with that case related to Eduardo Gutiérrez Enríquez (1843-1920), a native of Sanlúcar. His political militancy in federal republicanism and his short periods as a deputy caused him the hostility coming from many conservative leaders who could not withstand his permanent criticism of corruption and the despotism which filled up the municipal management of Sanlúcar de Barrameda and other towns in Cádiz in the period between those two centuries. His career is a good example of how “the fourth state” has suffered the attacks of the dominant political kinds in order to try to keep quiet those voices that disagreed with the official opinion.

From waterworks to disaster: failed constructions in 20th century Spain

2024-09-26T15:06:37+00:00

Although several decades have passed, the debate on the causes of some of the disasters that occurred in Spanish dams and reservoirs in the 20th century is still open. Accidents that opened wounds and buried lives, erasing the memory of significant cultural landscapes. Researchers have studied them using the testimonies of the survivors as one of the most valuable sources; in addition, it is common to resort to accounts provided by the media. Precisely, this article analyses the power of the press in the construction of the perception of three disasters linked to hydraulic works: Granillar, Vega de Tera and Torrejón el Rubio.

Elena Escuredo, Diana Olivares y Pablo Pomar (eds.), Crux Triumphalis. Calvarios y vigas de imaginería entre la Edad Media y el Concilio de Trento, León, Universidad de León, 2023

2024-08-12T15:53:16+00:00

Gema Rayo Muñoz, Una Iglesia a la sombra de la monarquía. Dinero y poder en el reino de Granada (1487-1526), Madrid, CSIC, 2023

2024-10-08T16:26:57+00:00

Transformations in spanish hospital care in the transition from the Old Regime to the New Regime (18th-19th centuries)

2024-10-03T20:01:27+00:00

Guillermina del Valle Pavón (coord.), Contrabando y redes de negocio. Hispanoamérica en el comercio global, 1610-1814, Ciudad de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, Consejo Nacional de Humanidades, Ciencia y Tecnologías, 2023

2024-11-16T12:58:39+00:00

Rafel Aita, Los Incas Hispanos: La Historia no contada de la Conquista del Perú, San Sebastián, Ediciones La Tribuna del País Vasco, 2022

2024-11-13T18:17:10+00:00

Mario Trujillo (coord.), Menesteres y negocios de mujeres hispanoamericanas, siglos XVIII-XIX. Su presencia en la vida mercantil, la minería, los mayorazgos, las encomiendas y haciendas, Ciudad de México, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México/ Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 2024

2024-10-14T16:08:58+00:00

Lilyam Padrón Reyes y María del Mar Barrientos Álvarez (eds.), Entre Europa y América: el mar y la primera globalización, Leoia, Universidad del País Vasco, 2023

2024-09-18T06:33:10+00:00

FIORE, Fabio. L´affaire Matteotti. Storia di un delitto. Bari: Editori Laterza, 2024.

2024-08-17T18:08:52+00:00

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