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The peninsular territories of the Spanish Monarchy

With the sponsorship of the Rafael del Pino Foundation, the Royal Academy of History is organising several series of lectures on the terroritores that formed part of the Spanish Monarchy in the 16th and 17th Centuries. In 2008, after focusing on the Crown of Aragón, a further series was held relating to the Crown of Castile, the Crown of Portugal - from 1580-1640, the Kingdom of Navarre and the Basque provinces.

The series of lectures was entitled “The Peninsular Territories of the Spanish Monarchy“ and took place at the Royal Academy of History between 30 October and 7 November 2008. The series coordinators were: Gonzalo Anes y Álvarez de Castrillón, Director of the Royal Academy of History, and Feliciano Barrios Pintado, Professor of History of Law. The lectures were given by the following academics and experts: Miguel Ángel Ladero Quesada, Manuel Fernández Álvarez, Luis Ribot García, Fernando Bouza Álvarez, Luis Miguel Enciso Recio, Fernando de Arvizu y Galárraga and Feliciano Barrios Pintado.

In the course of this series of lectures, these experts explained the internal structure of the Monarchy and analysed how the different territories were integrated into them and the interactions that occurred in them as a whole. There was also discussion of the institutional mechanisms for relations between the territories that comprised the Spanish Monarchy - paying special attention to the involvement of people from each of them - and the governance by the Monarchy itself. In each case, attention was paid to the process of formation of the different territorial areas that made up the institution of the Monarchy.