Education:

Graduate in History from the Universitat de València (2021), specialised in Early Modern History, with a Master's Degree in History and Identities in the Western Mediterranean (15th-19th Centuries) (MHIMO) (2022). I am currently culminating my qualification for secondary education teaching, with the Master's Degree in Secondary Education Teacher (MAES) (2024) and I am developing my doctoral thesis in the "Doctoral Programme in Geography and History of the Mediterranean from Prehistory to the Early Modern Age" (2022-present).

Research interests:

My main topic of study is the urban supply of the city of Valencia between ca. 1700 and 1825. The research began during the development of my Master's dissertation (MHIMO), in which I investigated "El Abasto de Nieve en Valencia a finales del Antiguo Régimen" (1704-1820). Currently, during my pre-doctoral research, among other issues, i'm focusing on the general mechanism of  the urban supply in Valencia in the same chronology, supplies such as wine or snow, the networks in which the suppliers participated or retail sales.

Publications:

Borrás Benavente, Andrés (2023) “Los trabajadores del frío. El mundo laboral vinculado al abasto de nieve en la ciudad de Valencia y su área de influencia a finales del Antiguo Régimen (1704-1820)”, Revista Latinoamericana De Trabajo Y Trabajadores, 6, pp. 37–59.

Borrás Benavente, Andrés (2023) “Empresarios del frío. Los abastecedores de nieve y sus compañías en la Valencia de la segunda mitad del s. XVIII” en José María Imízcoz Beunza, Javier Esteban Ochoa de Eribe y Andoni Artola Renedo (Coord.) Los entramados políticos y sociales en la España moderna: del orden corporativo-jurisdiccional al Estado liberal (pp. 1045-1059) Vitoria-Gasteiz, Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.

Laura Guinot has a degree and a PhD in History from the University of Valencia (2019). She has worked as a Predoctoral Researcher in the Institut Universitari d’Estudis de la Dona and in the Department of Early Modern History and Contemporary History from the University of Valencia, with a ValI+D contract from the Generalitat Valenciana. She is a specialist in Early Modern History, and her research has focused on feminine spirituality between 17^th and 18^th centuries. She has worked on popular religiosity and the process of sainthood construcción, as well as saint appealing from a historical and medical perspective. As a result, she has published different articles and has written a thesis titled Santidad femenina, curación milagrosa y religiosidad popular en la Valencia Moderna: La Beata Inés de Benigànim (Feminine sainthood, miraculous healing and popular religiosity in Early Modern Valencia: Blessed Inés of Benigànim) .

She has also been interested on the history of reading practices and written culture, particularly on religious and popular literature in the early modern period. Currently, her research addresses to the analysis of feminine readership and the so-called “literature for women” during 18^th century.