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 a Full Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Valladolid, where she graduated in 1984 with an extraordinary award and obtained her doctorate in 1989. She was also granted the First "Provincia de Valladolid" Award from the Provincial Council of Valladolid in 1990. 

Director of the "Felipe II" Chair at the University of Valladolid (by rectoral appointment on December 18, 2023), she has been a member since its foundation of the "Simancas" University Institute of History, where she served as an advisor to the Chair of Historical Studies. Furthermore, she has been a member of the Spanish Foundation for Early Modern History, the SEESXVIII, and the Alfonso IX Center for University History until its dissolution.

She has held various academic and university management positions, notably her tenure at the Office of the Ombudsman for the University Community. She serves on the scientific and editorial boards of several scholarly journals, including Revista Publicaciones (Melilla), Revista Erasmo: Historia Medieval y Moderna, Revista Investigaciones Históricas, Chronica Nova (University of Granada), Revista de Historia Moderna: Anales de la Universidad de Alicante, and the Colección Estudios y Documentos (Publications Service of the University of Valladolid).

A member of the "Society and Conflict from the Early Modern to the Contemporary Era" Recognized Research Group (GIR), she has participated in numerous funded research projects since beginning her tenure as Principal Investigator through "Research Grants for Young Groups" (UVA) in 1989. This includes four projects funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) regarding Hispanic Universities (2000-2012), as well as a project from the IUHS (UVA) financed by the Ministry of Education and Science (2012) to commemorate the Centenary of the University of Palencia, the oldest on the peninsula. Moreover, since 1998, she has participated in six projects funded by the Regional Government of Castilla y León to study forms of sociability in Early Modern History. Finally, she has led four projects funded by MICINN (since 2013) as Principal Investigator: "Justice and Women: Criminal Courts in the Definition of a Gender Identity. Castile and Portugal (1550-1800)"; "Women and Society from the Early Modern to the Contemporary Era"; and "Women, Family, and Society: The Construction of Social History through Legal Culture (16th-20th Centuries)," which is integrated into a Network project titled "Conflicts and Resistances in the Crown of Castile, 16th-19th Centuries," and "Femininities and Masculinities from Legal Culture in Atlantic Societies (16th-20th Centuries)."

She has undertaken research stays and conducted courses at Spanish, Portuguese (Lisbon, Minho, Porto), French (Nancy, Montpellier, Caen, Paris), Italian (Rome, Naples), and American (Argentina, Mexico) universities.

Her research output to date comprises 150 titles, including monographs, contributions to collective works, coordination of monographic issues, and journal articles. She holds recognition for six research periods (sexenios).

Her notable monographs include: Ser estudiante en el siglo XVIII: La Universidad vallisoletana de la Ilustración (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: una concesión académica tan antigua como la Universidad de Valladolid (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: Delito, mujer y sociedad en el Antiguo Régimen (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); and 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 is composed of professors from the Early Modern History Area of the University of Valladolid: Alberto Marcos Martín, Alberto Corada Alonso, Antonio Cabeza Rodríguez, Adolfo Carrasco Martínez, Carlos J. Hernando Sánchez, Javier Burrieza Sánchez, and Carlos Belloso Martín, who serves as secretary. This Committee is responsible for receiving and evaluating texts requested from guest professors of the "Felipe II" Chair, proposing external reviewers, deciding on the publication of submitted texts in the event of contradictory reports, and collaborating in the editorial process of the volumes being published. 

The Advisory Board consists of the professors who have held the "Felipe II" Chair since its establishment in 1969 and are still living, all of whom are distinguished representatives of Early Modern historiography: John H. Elliott (University of Oxford, England); Pedro Molas (Universidad de Barcelona, Spain); Emilia Salvador (Universidad de Valencia, Spain); Ernesto Belenguer (Universidad de Barcelona, Spain); José I. Fortea (Universidad de Cantabria, Spain); Geoffrey Parker (University of Columbus, Ohio, USA); Antonio M. Hespanha (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal); Pablo Fernández Albaladejo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain); Giuseppe Galasso (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy); Ricardo García Cárcel (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain); Eddy Stols (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); María José Rodríguez Salgado (London School of Economics, England); Richard Kagan (Johns Hopkins University, USA); Agostino Borromeo (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy); Giovanni Muto (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy); Bernard Vincent (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France); Carlos Martínez Shaw (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain); Fernando Bouza Álvarez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain); Pedro Cardim (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal); José Javier Ruiz Ibáñez (Universdad de Murcia, Spain); Gaetano Sabatini (Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy); Enrique Soria Mesa (Universidad de Córdoba, Spain); José Luis Rodríguez de Diego (Archivo General de Simancas, Spain); Fernando Checa Cremades (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain); José Martínez Millán (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain); Jean-Frédéric Schaub (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France); Ofelia Rey Castelao (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain); and Enrique Álvarez Cora (Universidad de Murcia, Spain). The functions of the Advisory Board include advising the Scientific Committee on the recommendation of reviewers and all matters pertaining to the editorial process of the collection’s publications, as well as collaborating in their national and international dissemination. Its members may also serve as 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.