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A medieval capital and its area of influence. The economic and political impact of the city of Valencia on the whole kingdom in the late Middle Ages

The relations of a great medieval capital, Valencia, with the territory that surrounds it and which makes its subsistence possible through the supply of food, raw materials, water, etc., but also through the dominant functions it exercises through urban investment, credit and taxation.

Cinema, mass culture and identities

Analysis of cinema and mass culture in relation to the construction of collective identities of nation and gender.

Comparison with democratisation processes in Southern Europe and the US

Comparison with democratic processes in Southern Europe and the United States.

Gender and fascism in Europe

A study from a transnational perspective of gender representations in European fascist political cultures.

Medieval urban societies in the Crown of Aragon

Study of the organisation of urban governments through their aggregation structures (parishes, corporations, confraternities), without losing sight of the political action with regard to the world of work or the jurisdictional projection of the city over the territory to guarantee its supply.

Modifications of the medieval cultivated ecosystem in the kingdom of Valencia

Documentary, cartographic and archaeological study of the agrarian transformations produced as a consequence of the Catalan-Aragonese conquest and colonisation of the kingdom of Valencia between the 13th and 16th centuries.

The networks of Judeo-Conversa sociability and inquisitorial action in the Crown of Aragon in the 15th century

Using the extensive sources available to us, the aim is to reconstruct individuals and families of Hebrew origin in the city of Valencia and, at the same time, to determine the first establishment of the tribunal of the Holy Office by the monarchy of Ferdinand the Catholic.

Urban identities. Crown of Aragon-Italy: economic networks, institutional structures, political functions (14th-15th centuries).

A comparative study of the late medieval political and economic realities between the states of the Crown of Aragon and the main Italian cities, attempting to define the respective urban identities and the complex interplay of factors that made their formulation possible.