Aesthetics, art and philosophical knowledge. Philosophy of art as a critique of society. The conception of the aesthetic in Critical Theory.
Origin, evolution and Hispanic diffusion of the Matter of Brittany. Fictional texts and historical contexts in Hispanic chivalric narrative. Relations between different Romanesque chivalric literatures: Castilian, Catalan, French, Italian, etc.
Relations between health, medicine and society in the European and international context: public health, health policies, urban-rural dichotomy, food and nutrition, diseases, campaigns and health professionals.
Recreation and survival of the Middle Ages, its history, literature, images, myths and legends in contemporary cultural production: cinema, literature, comics, videogames, music, social media, board games, etc.
Research in critical theory and the Frankfurt School.
Application of Digital Humanities to the study and research of Medieval Spanish Literature.
Through the use of primary and secondary literature we will study the influence between American and British women's literature from the 17th century to the present day.
Synchronic and diachronic studies on different aspects of the language (Italian, Spanish and French) of the 16th-century documents published, both from Granvelle's correspondence and from other documentary corpuses of the period.
Research in the fields of medieval Catalan literature and digital humanities.
- Origin, evolution, diffusion, sources, configuration and textual tradition, corpus, reception and categorisation of Medieval Sapiential Literature.
- Exemplary literature, literature of sentences, literature of questions and answers.
- Compendia of medieval punishments.
- Mirrors of princes.
History, criticism, evolution, social, cultural and political context, literary production, textual transmission and reception of Medieval Spanish Literature and its relationship with Romance literatures.
Printed literary production and dissemination. Process of transformation from manuscript text to printed copy. The book as a commercial and cultural product: technique, composition, printing workshops, agents involved in the process of production, dissemination, financing and sale. Typobibliography.
Study and philological edition of 16th century texts, based on the correspondence of Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle and similar correspondences.
Translation, editing, biographical studies of intellectuals of the Frankfurt School and its predecessors.
Science and its publics, science in the classroom, science, medicine and law, circulation of knowledge, experts, scientific terminology, controversies.
Historical analysis of science in medieval and modern society. Specifically, the degree of penetration, popularisation and influence of medicine, astronomy and natural history in different spheres and social groups.
Application and development of concepts and figures of critical thinking in social research. Global dialogue of critical theory.
Critical edition of medieval texts accompanied by complete studies and devices of notes, with special attention to the digital edition in both TEI and ebook format.
