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This paper is primarily concerned with a number of projects and reports about specific requirements that came out during the fifties at the University of Salamanca. The long history of this institution is still, for its richness and complexity, an essential object of study. Framed in the research devoted to the History of Universities, the paper describes and analyses, through the historical-educational approach, a particular aspect of this institution, projects and academics' reports at a particular stage during Franco's regime. On the other hand, the main aim of this paper is to serve as a stimulus for reflection on the trinominal: reality of the University under Franco's regime - considerations about scholastic reasoning - utopian or feasible proposals. The atmosphere of discontent at the University, the need to reduce the dearth of research or the scarcity of resources will be overt issues in the reviewed documents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is presented as a general consideration about the mechanisms of power that determine the situation of the historical research, the publications, the critique, and the academic promotion in Spain, from a University of Salamanca perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present text aims to be an advance of the general lines of research are being followed for the preparation of the PhD thesis doctoral: The Cultural Legacy of the Roman Villas Tardoantiguas in Castilla and León. The Late Antique Roman villages preserved in Castilla and Leon are depositaries of a rich archaeological and historical patrimony as home to valuable information about Roman society that lived there. This paper aims to provide a systematic and quantitative analysis of the cultural heritage related to these villages, through a method, the analysis of content, not used so far in the area of Archaeology. As a starting point intended to review the different perspectives of analysis of the archaeological surveys conducted on the Hispanic villages, since its variation has been remarkable in recent decades. Then, applying the analysis of content, there will be elaborated a system of indicators, as complete as possible, which aim is to obtain a classification or to provide some key factors for a possible typological definition of the villages that serve to examine how the definition about its spatial and functional organization, its iconographic program, and the presence of luxury materials allow to define the relationship with the social environment of the Late Roman time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since many decades ago the Art History, as a scientific discipline, has showed an enormous disability to studying the artistic contemporary practices. Entrenched in old methodological criteria, the art historians reject any issue from which we are not separated by a considerable temporary distance. This problem, to which the History has given response from the History of the present time, is an insurmountable obstacle for the Art history. In this paper, we try to raise the methodological possibilities of a Art history of the present, exploring how the contemporary art practices can help us to rethink some of the methodological dogmas of the discipline.Keywords: Contemporary art, historiography, History of the present, methodology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Traditionally, the study of texts has been privileged over archaeology in medieval historiography. However, during the last twenty years, the theoretic and methodological contribution of medieval archaeologists, as well as the results of their research, has lead to a new understanding of the relation between the two disciplines, which also implies the questioning of the old historiographical thesis. This paper will expose the problems that the lack of a common theoretical frame poses in attempt to find the links that could enable us to produce a unitary historical knowledge. We will consider some of the aspects of the debate in the light of our own research work: the study of space and power in the County of Monzón, and the rural settlement of the Valle del Río Almar between the Second Iron Age and the Early Middle Ages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]