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This is a compilation thesis, trying to know the past, following the methodology of the knowledge, studying and contrasting the different points of view (historical, political, social, urbanistic, constructive, archaeological, etc.), to be able of establishing, if it is possible…

This dissertation examines the economic, social and political life of La Plana, an area associated with an extensive irrigation system at the mouth of the Millars river in eastern Spain, in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. This was part of a new kingdom establi…

This project centers on two inquisitorial investigations which began in the 1540s. One is from Spain (Valencia), and the other from Mexico (Yanhuitlan, Oaxaca). The first involves relations between Muslims and Catholics, and the second relations between Native Americans and Euro…

My dissertation focuses on the Counter Reformation in Valencia, a prosperous archdiocese on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. The unusually long tenure of Juan de Ribera, archbishop of Valencia 1569-1611, provides an excellent opportunity to examine the role of the bishop in the…

A prominent Mediterranean port located near Islamic territories, the city of Valencia in the fifteenth century boasted a slave population of pronounced religious, ethnic, and cultural diversity. While previous historians have focused their energies on defining the legal status o…