Hispania Nostra is an association committed to denouce and defend Spanish cultural and historical heritage at risk. Among other important resources this website provides access to the so-called “lista roja del patrimonio” ([Spanish] heritage red list) including detailed information on items seriously threaten.
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The Spanish History Portal Artehistoria.com sponsorised by the Regional Government of Castilla Leon launched recently its own Youtube channel. The Artehistoriacom channel in the popular video sharing site contains a good selection of feeds on art, history and architecture.
Hispanic Virtual Library (Biblioteca Virtual Hispana) of the Spanish National Library presents a selection of documents preserved in that institution, which contain is essential for the understanding and knowledge of Spanish cultural heritage.
Geschiedenis van Zuid-Holland (History of Southern Holland) is a web portal providing a series of useful information for historians on this Dutch province. The website allows also to query the provincial and local archives (free text search) among other features.
The Spanish Ministry of Culture launched recently PARES. This service substitutes the old AER (Archivos Españoles en Red).
As part of a former exhibition on El Palacio del Rey Planeta: Felipe IV y El Retiro, the Museo del Prado website provides a digital reconstruction in flash of the Salon de Reinos.
Source: Ian Sample, science correspondent
Thursday November 30, 2006
The Guardian
A 2,000-year-old mechanical computer salvaged from a Roman shipwreck has astounded scientists who have finally unravelled the secrets of how the sophisticated device works.
The machine was lost among cargo in 65BC when the ship carrying it sank in 42m of water off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera. By chance, in 1900, a sponge diver called Elias Stadiatos discovered the wreck and recovered statues and other artifacts from the site.
The machine first came to light when an archaeologist working on the recovered objects noticed that a lump of rock had a gear wheel embedded in it. Closer inspection of material brought up from the stricken ship subsequently revealed 80 pieces of gear wheels, dials, clock-like hands and a wooden and bronze casing bearing ancient Greek inscriptions.
Since its discovery, scientists have been trying to reconstruct the device, which is now known to be an astronomical calendar capable of tracking with remarkable precision the position of the sun, several heavenly bodies and the phases of the moon. Experts believe it to be the earliest-known device to use gear wheels and by far the most sophisticated object to be found from the ancient and medieval periods.
Source: EFE
PARÍS.- Unas 400 piezas de armaduras españolas de finales del siglo XVI han sido descubiertas en el norte de Francia son “de largo el mayor hallazgo” en excavaciones en ese país de herramientas de protección individual de la época, ha señalado el arqueólogo Arnaud Tixador.
Cascos, petos, espaldares y cajitas con pólvora para cargar las armas aparecieron la pasada semana en la localidad de Valenciennes, en unas excavaciones previas en un terreno sobre el que se iba a construir un edificio.
Las piezas, que permitían proteger a unos 200 hombres, estaban escondidas en una fosa cuadrada de un metro de profundidad.
En el siglo XVI, Valenciennes y el valle del Escaut fueron ocupados por las tropas españolas, pues el rey Felipe II (1527-1598) pretendía expandir el catolicismo en un territorio con una importante población protestante.
“Hay dos hipótesis: o bien cayeron en manos de protestantes rebeldes contra los militares españoles y las escondían para usarlas más adelante, bien pertenecían a un artesano que guardaba su mercancía antes de hacerla fundir”, ha explicado Tixador.
Junto a las partes de armaduras fueron hallados unos 150 arcabuces de principios del siglo XVII.
“Ahora se trata de sumergirse en los archivos y consultar la documentación para tratar de despejar las incógnitas”, ha apuntado el arqueólogo.
Los expertos continuarán las excavaciones en las proximidades, pues sospechan que pueden encontrar nuevas piezas
The Fundación Carlos de Amberes (www.fcamberes.org) has just published a monography entitled Banca, Crédito y Capital. La Monarquía Hispánica y los antiguos Países Bajos (1505-1709), Madrid 2006. The edition of this book has been coordinated by Carmen Sanz Ayan (Real Academia de la Historia & Universidad Complutense Madrid) and Bernardo García (Fundación Carlos de Amberes & Universidad Complutense Madrid). The book is in fact a collection of articles resulting from the VI Seminario Internacional de Historia, organised by the Fundación Carlos de Amberes on 12-15 December 2005.
My contribution
Iñaki López Martín: “Los ‘unos’ y los ‘otros’: comercio, guerra e identidad. Flamencos y holandeses en la Monarquía Hispánica (ca. 1560-1609)”, Banca, Crédito y Capital. La Monarquía Hispánica y los antiguos Países Bajos (1505-1709), Madrid, 2006, pp. 425-457.
The Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (SSPHS) was founded in 1969 to promote research in all aspects and epochs of Iberian history and related disciplines. SSPHS conducts annual meetings, provides a forum for scholars of Iberian Affairs, awards prizes for books, articles and dissertations, and publishes its Bulletin triannually. As an affiliated society of the American Historical Association, SSPHS also sponsors sessions at the AHA’s yearly meeting.
After several years in Kansas the SSPHS moved to a new server and website address. Please change your bookmarks!
Sebastián de Covarrubias Orozco: Tesoro de la lengua castellana o española (1611). First and Second part now available as part of the “Clásicos de la Biblioteca Nacional” project. Sebastián de Covarrubias y Horozco (1539-1613) was Capellán of Phillip II, canónigo of Cuenca´s cathedral, and consultor of the Santo Oficio. But he is basically known as the author of the Tesoro. In fact, the first Spanish dictionary.
It is midnight (00:11 if we want to be sharp) and I have just noticed googling that the University of Nice has published my latest article with a certain degree of nocturnidad y alevosía… No one has even told me… I have just discovered it like that (!).
Here is the reference:
Ignacio López Martín, “Entre la guerra económica y la persuasión diplomática : el comercio mediterráneo como moneda de cambio en el conflicto hispano-neerlandés (1574-1609)“, Cahiers de la Méditerranée, vol. 71 Crises, conflits et guerres en Méditerranée (Tome 2).
The title can be translated as: “Between economic war and diplomatic persuasion: the Mediterranean trade as bargaining chip in the Hipano-Dutch conflict (1574-1609)”.
Unfortunately, the abstract in English available in the journal’s website is not mine. I better prepare a good translation for them before it is too late for the printed version…!
Likewise, for some strange reason every single tables in the electronic version of the paper show bizarre font types, lack of accents and other formatting problems that make them totally unreadable. Someone should fix that before it goes printed!!!
The exhibition “Ibn Khaldun. The Mediterranean in the 14th century: the Rise and Fall of Empires”, to be held at Seville’s Real Alcázar Palace, aims to give visitors the chance to discover a period in history as decisive as the 14th century. It analyses the role of Seville and Spain at this time, looking at the events of the period, through the historical analysis in the work of Ibn Khaldun.
Eurodocs, one of the first (if not “the” first) collections of on-line historical documents available in the internet goes Wiki.
Needless to say, the original page of Eurodocs has been a real must for anybody interested in Early Modern history all over these years.
The creator of Eurodocs is Richard Hacken, European Studies Bibliographer,at the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA. Richard is one of those guys who understood more than decade ago the importance of having a good on-line documents repository in the web. Congrats Richard!
Straatvaart users might consider visiting the following sections of Eurodocs:
Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro claims to be a fully searchable database collection on Spanish Golden Age Theater. According to the general information included in the site, the database contains over 800 plays by Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, Agustín de Moreto, etc.
The site, however, does not contain any clear instructions on how to get access to that potentially useful database for early modern historians. The webmaster of this project has been contacted and straatvaart is waiting for an answer.
The LIBRO project announces:
“Through the generosity of Rod Hay, a PDF version of Julius Klein’s THE MESTA: A Study in Spanish Economic History, 1273-1836 (Print Edition: Harvard University Press, 1920) has been added to the LIBRO collection.
The URL of LIBRO is: http://libro.uca.edu
The URL of this title is: http://libro.uca.edu/mesta/TheMesta.pdf
Regards,
Jim Brodman, Director
The LIBRO Project”
The LIBRO project is long-lasting research project as well as an excellent tool that grants free access to out-of-print books on Iberian History. Thanks!
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