Síntesis. Cátedra Felipe II

Books Published in This Series

SERIES DIRECTOR

Margarita Torremocha Hernández, Professor of Early Modern History (Department of Early Modern, Contemporary, American History, and Journalism. Faculty of Arts and Humanities. University of Valladolid. Plaza del Campus s/n. 47011 Valladolid. Tel: +34 983 423 000, ext. 6622. Email: margarita.torremocha@uva.es).

Margarita Torremocha Hernández (Valladolid) is Full Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Valladolid, where she earned her degree in 1984 (with highest honors) and her PhD in 1989. She received the “Provincia de Valladolid” First Prize from the Provincial Council in 1990.

She currently serves as Director of the “Felipe II” Chair at the University of Valladolid (appointed by the Rector on 18/12/2023), and has been a founding member of the Simancas University Institute of History, where she also served on the board of the Historical Studies Chair. She is a member of the Spanish Foundation for Early Modern History, the Spanish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEESXVIII), and was part of the Alfonso IX University History Centre until its closure.

Her academic and administrative roles have included work in the Office of the University Ombudsperson. She is a member of the editorial and scientific boards of several journals (Revista Publicaciones, Melilla; Revista Erasmo; Investigaciones Históricas; Chronica Nova, University of Granada; Revista de Historia Moderna, University of Alicante; and Estudios y Documentos, University of Valladolid Press).

A member of the GIR “Society and Conflict from the Early Modern Period to the Present,” she has participated in numerous research projects since her beginnings as Principal Investigator through the 1989 UVA Program “Support for Emerging Research Groups.” She has contributed to four MICINN-funded projects on Hispanic universities (2000–2012), as well as a 2012 Ministry of Education and Science project celebrating the Centenary of the University of Palencia—the oldest in the Iberian Peninsula. Since 1998, she has also participated in six projects by the Junta de Castilla y León studying sociability in Early Modern History, and in three further MICINN projects (since 2013) as Principal Investigator:

  • Justice and Women: Criminal Courts and the Construction of Gender Identity in Castile and Portugal (1550–1800),
  • Women and Society from the Early Modern Period to the Present, and
  • Women, Family, and Society: Building Social History through Legal Culture, 16th–20th centuries, part of the REDES project Conflicts and Resistances in the Crown of Castile, 16th–19th centuries.

She has undertaken research stays and taught courses at institutions in Spain, Portugal (Lisbon, Minho, Porto), France (Nancy, Montpellier, Caen, Paris), Italy (Rome, Naples), and Latin America (Argentina, Mexico).

Her research output includes more than 150 scholarly works, including monographs, book chapters, edited volumes, and journal articles. She has been awarded six national research periods (sexenios).

Her major monographs include: Ser estudiante en el siglo XVIII (1991); La enseñanza entre el inmovilismo y las reformas ilustradas (1993); La Universidad de Valladolid (1997); La vida estudiantil en el Antiguo Régimen (1998); Solidaridad en el más allá (2003); El grado de doctor (2007); La Mujer Imaginada (2010); Compendio de los felices progresos de la Universidad de Salamanca (2012); El Estudio General de Palencia (2012); De la Mancebía a la Clausura (2014); As mulheres perante os tribunais do Antigo Régimen na Peninsula Ibérica (2015); La mujer en la balanza de la justicia (2017); El estupro (2018); Cárcel de mujeres en el Antiguo Régimen (2019); Mujeres, sociedad y conflicto (2019); Matrimonio, estrategia y conflicto (2020); Violencia familiar y doméstica ante los tribunales (2021); Mujeres e Identidad en tierras hispanohablantes (2023).

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

The Síntesis series of the “Felipe II” Chair is overseen by a Scientific Committee and a Consultative Council.

The Scientific Committee comprises members of the Early Modern History section at the University of Valladolid: Alberto Marcos Martín, Rosa Mª González Martínez, Alberto Corada Alonso, Antonio Cabeza Rodríguez, Mª Ángeles Sobaler Seco, Adolfo Carrasco Martínez, Carlos J. Hernando Sánchez, Javier Burrieza Sánchez, and Carlos Belloso Martín (Secretary), along with Luis A. Ribot García, former director of the Chair. This Committee is responsible for receiving and evaluating submissions from invited lecturers, proposing external reviewers, resolving conflicting reviews, and contributing to the editorial process.

The Consultative Council includes surviving former holders of the “Felipe II” Chair since its foundation in 1969, all of whom are leading figures in the field of Early Modern historiography: John H. Elliott (Oxford); Joseph Pérez (Bordeaux); Pedro Molas (Barcelona); Emilia Salvador (Valencia); Ernesto Belenguer (Barcelona); José Alcalá Zamora (Complutense University of Madrid); José I. Fortea (Cantabria); Geoffrey Parker (Ohio State University); Antonio M. Hespanha (Nova Lisbon); Pablo Fernández Albaladejo (Autonomous University of Madrid); Giuseppe Galasso and Giovanni Muto (Federico II, Naples); Ricardo García Cárcel (Autonomous University of Barcelona); Eddy Stols (Louvain); María José Rodríguez Salgado (LSE); Richard Kagan (Johns Hopkins); Agostino Borromeo (Sapienza, Rome); Bernard Vincent and Jean-Frédéric Schaub (EHESS, Paris); Carlos Martínez Shaw (UNED); Bartolomé Bennassar (Toulouse Le Mirail); Fernando Bouza Álvarez and José Martínez Millán (Complutense and Autonomous University of Madrid, respectively); José Javier Ruiz Ibáñez (Murcia); Pedro Cardim (Nova Lisbon); Gaetano Sabatini (Roma Tre); Enrique Soria Mesa (Córdoba); José Luis Rodríguez de Diego (Archivo General de Simancas); and Fernando Checa Cremades (Complutense). The Council advises the Scientific Committee on reviewer appointments, publication decisions, and the international dissemination of the series. Its members may also serve as peer reviewers.

EDITORIAL POLICY

The Síntesis series is both an extension of the teaching mission and a vehicle for scholarly publication of the “Felipe II” Chair, an academic and research unit attached to the Early Modern History section at the University of Valladolid. Since its establishment in 1969, its core aim has been to promote research on Philip II—his life, reign, and times—from Valladolid, his birthplace. The Chair traditionally organizes seminars and academic meetings on his reign, notably the annual two-day November Courses. The volumes in the Síntesis series are derived from lectures delivered by the Chair's appointees and represent original, first-hand research.

CODE OF ETHICAL CONDUCT

This book series adheres to the Guide to Good Practices of Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid, which follows the principles of the Committee on Publications Ethics (COPE). The guide outlines appropriate ethical standards for authors, editors, and reviewers.

AUTHOR GUIDELINES, MANUSCRIPT REVIEW PROCESS, AND COMMUNICATION OF DECISIONS

General submission instructions, peer review procedures, and publication request forms common to all books submitted to Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid are available under the “Publication Proposals” section of the publisher’s website.

The Síntesis series maintains a distinctive editorial format. While general submission requirements follow EdUVa guidelines, specific editorial criteria may vary according to the thematic and formal nature of each publication.