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This article discusses the historical archives of the Archivo Histórico de la Universidad de Salamanca in Spain. The author comments on the collection referred to as the Papeles Varios, a collection of historical documents related to the religious order of the Jesuits in Spain, which date from the 16th to the 20th centuries. A series of charts and diagrams are also provided that display the chronological information of these documents (their dates of creation) as well as analyze their content, format, and language.

This paper describes a study dealing with the reconstruction of the lives of two Spanish primary school teachers during the Franco dictatorship (1939-1975), in order to learn to what extent such a field of research can contribute to the history of education. Two family archives provide extraordinary and unique documentation to track down their personal and professional lives through the combined examination of a variety of written sources and oral testimonies of relatives and students. Their life histories lead to the analysis of elements of the materiality of schooling and to the history of the schools where the teaching took place. Intangible school culture is also explored: teachers' feelings, devotion to teaching, and respect from students. Professionalism compensates for the lack of professionalisation in times of poor teacher instruction. Life histories contribute to the history of education from below, giving other protagonists of the teaching profession the visibility they deserve.

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This paper argues that there is a need for specific standards for the description of archive repositories. With this objective in mind a DTD has been created, called Encoded Archival Guide (EAG) that provides an electronic format for the storage, publication and exchange of information related to archive repositories. The different elements and attributes that make up the EAG DTD are described, as well as their application to the Electronic Guide to Spanish and Iberian American Archives that includes information about more than 42,000 institutions. (Contains 3 figures and 7 notes.)

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Treating anorexia nervosa is one of the greatest challenges faced by current health policies. This paper reflects on the social and cultural aspects of this type of eating disorder and proposes an intervention approach based on narrative therapy as a complement to existing treatments. This type of therapy requires a holistic and coordinated vision of the socio‐cultural and community aspects that surround both the person dealing with anorexia and their closest social circle of friends and family. The effects of anorexia, when it becomes the dominant voice in a person's narrative, need to be understood within a broader and more inclusive social context without putting all the responsibility on the person who is being bullied by anorexia. Based on the qualitative results of the Archive of Resistance presented by the Anti‐Anorexia League, narrative therapy is shown to have great potential for transforming the current approach to treating anorexia in English. This paper recommends use of the poststructuralist approach of narrative therapy to collaborate with the person affected by anorexia in Spanish‐speaking cultures. At the same time, it opens a discussion on the need to establish a document database, an Archive of Resistance, in Spanish, to help mitigate the effects of anorexia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper challenges the traditional commonplaces regarding the end of the jurisdictional governance structures of the Spanish Catholic Monarchy in the third decade of the 19th century. The so-called polisinodial regime, composed of the Councils, collegiate bodies several centuries old, apparently collapsed due to the most important political reforms following the death of Fernando VII, the last absolute Spanish King. In this paper, I will first examine how legal historiography has understood these institutional reforms and their actual impact on the dissolution of the former Councils, carrying out a bibliographical review. Second, I will show the role played by the Consejo Real de España e Indias in this process of disintegration of the ancient polisinodia and the emergence of the new Spanish Administration. In order to do so, I will examine and interpret unpublished archival documentation from various archives in Spain, such as the Archivo General de Indias, the Archivo General de Simancas, the Archivo Histórico Nacional, and the Archivo General de Palacio. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Modern scholarship has devoted relatively thorough attention to the manuscripts associated with Thomas Wyatt's poetry, especially the Devonshire manuscript and the Blage manuscript, but particularly "BL, MS. Egerton 2711," the only extant manuscript of Wyatt's verse that contains his hand. The last of these, hereafter "Egerton," was clearly Wyatt's personal volume, and it has been called "the keystone of the Wyatt canon?" It contains poems copied in the hands of three amanuenses with corrections and revisions in Wyatt's own hand. "Egerton" was probably not bound in boards during Wyatt's lifetime, but the manuscript clearly began as a group of blank paper gatherings, stitched together or perhaps just loosely grouped and wrapped in vellum. In an article published in 1989, Helen Baron identified the compiler of the Blage manuscript as one John Mantell, who was with Wyatt abroad on at least two occasions, in Spain in 1537 and at Ghent, Belgium in 1540. Like most resident ambassadors, Wyatt employed a secretary to take copies, translate documents, and keep records while abroad.

The banking history of Latin America and Spain has emerged as a quite active field for comparative research in economics and history. To show the recent liveliness in the field and the many new sources available, the article begins with two sections that provide an overview of the banking history of many countries, as well as bibliographies and references to essential historical documents. Subsequently we present a new web page, hbancaria.org, which contains a bibliography, data, and information on primary sources, researchers, digital collections, and projects related to the field. One of the main objectives of this type of project is to promote discussion among specialists and share information through formats and technologies currently available. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to identify and study the documentation on benefices to parishes in the Ecclesiastical Archives of Mérida-Badajoz (Spain). In order to do this, an analysis of the history of the archive and its documentation is presented, in order to later focus on the beneficio curato, showing an approach to the process and a specific study of the documentation kept in these archives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the late 1930s the Spanish Civil War captured the international imagination to an extraordinary degree. As in other countries British men and women were moved to intervene directly and the memory of the war, and of British participation in it, has held an enduring appeal in the UK. The Civil War was also notable for its use of the visual as a weapon of propaganda, and the Spanish Republican Government deployed visual imagery to great effect as an instrument through which it exhibited its progressive educational and welfare reforms to an international audience. This article focuses on the visual and textual representations of displaced children in Republican educational colonies in Spain that are preserved in British archive collections. Taking as its starting point a series of photographs of children in colonies gathered together as part of the International Brigade Memorial Archive in London, the paper will consider the construction, use, and circulation of these images and associated texts by British and American political and humanitarian networks and their subsequent collection and preservation in British archival institutions. The paper will assess the effectiveness of the images and texts as pedagogical and political agents and explore how their meaning shifted as they travelled through a range of performative spaces on a journey from their construction as artefacts designed initially to record and communicate the Spanish Republic’s progressive educational project, to commemorative objects in the archive. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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What sort of progress took place in the archives of Spain from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth century? This is the question which this article seeks to answer by reflecting on the nomenclature assigned to various repositories of documentary memory, from ‘chest of privileges’ to ‘archival chamber’, whilst also focusing on the process of ‘archival consolidation’ which took place in different political and institutional spheres, from the Monarchy to municipal government. With this aim in mind, the article will also review a series of official regulations, beginning with the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, which sought both to rein in the disorder and dispersion of royal documents, and to promote the preservation of municipal and notarial papers. Given that no archive can exist without a basic system of order, this study also seeks to address the different forms of organization and control of documentary memory, emphasizing the diverse systems that were adopted and their purposes. This raises a final question, that of the uses of archives, which ranged from serving the needs of different levels of governance and administration, to the organization of an ever-growing body of information and its simultaneous use in the writing of history, as reflected in the work of diverse chroniclers in a period that was increasingly characterized by the practice of local historiography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to establish the importance of accounting in the management of Spanish military hospitals by the St John's Order (SJO) of the Roman Catholic Church in the eighteenth century, a time of crisis between the Church and the State. The sacred mission of the Order required that they had a significant role outside the Roman Catholic Church in the care and treatment of the sick and infirm which required them to establish hospitals throughout Spain and across the lands that it had conquered. The study establishes that accounting played a key role in ensuring the success of the unconventional commercial relationship between the SJO and the government and the military. Design/methodology/approach - Niebuhr's typology is used to help understand how accounting practices were consistent, indeed essential, expectations of the sacred mission of the SJO and not something which represented a denial of the Order's religious beliefs. The paper relies primarily on documents and other material located in Spanish archives. Findings - The SJO accepted that secular accounting and accountability processes were relevant to their search for God's love and to showing this love to others. The need for the Order to be accountable to the State was not regarded as profane and antithetical to their religious beliefs. Adopting Niebuhr's typology of religion and society, this study concludes that the Order was an extraordinary example of Christ the transformer of the culture. Originality/value - This study recognises the need to deepen the understanding of the way in which accounting practices have often played a critical role in the activities of religious organisations by examining an extraordinary example of one organisation which was engaged in an unusual, ongoing, highly complex commercial relationship with the Spanish State. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Comunists against Franco. The strength of a commitment" written by Carlos Fernández Rodríguez, Mauricio Valiente Ots, and Santiago Vega Sombría. The study analyzes the cultural identity of communists in Spain and their role in defending republicanism and resisting the military insurrection of 1936. The book provides an overview of the Spanish Communist Party and explores the personal motivations of its members. It also mentions the book "Dispersed. Journey towards the papers of the Warsaw Ghetto" by Georges Didi-Huberman, which narrates the history of the archive of Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum and highlights the cultural resistance represented by testimonial records amidst the Nazi genocide. [Extracted from the article]

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This study addresses the types of formats and ease of reuse of transparency-related information available on the websites of 53 national public libraries and 53 provincial historic archives. Further to Spain's Transparency Act, reuse of public sector information is one of the elements comprising the right of access to information. Access and use must consequently be ensured to enable citizens and businesses to reuse all available data. The working methodology deployed here consisted in searching for, identifying and analysing the transparency-related documents carried on library and archive websites and the legal warnings governing their reuse. The findings revealed a wide variety of formats and rules governing reuse and indications of scant interest in these institutions in fostering the transparency and reuse of public information. Even when available, reusable information was normally found to be posted either separately from the data furnished by libraries and archives directly or positioned on pages or sections with complex access paths. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article contributes a significant amount of new information about Santiago de Murcia's life, allowing for a fresh appraisal of the significance of his music. It is divided into three sections. The first synthesizes the previous data and conjectures about Murcia and his known sources (a printed book and three manuscripts), taking into consideration the suggestions about an eventual trip to Mexico and his possible links with a family of instrument builders from the court in Madrid. The second outlines, for the first time, a biography based on documentary evidence found in Spanish archives, demonstrating that his parents were Juan de Murcia and Magdalena Hernández, and that he was born in Madrid in 1673 and died there in 1739, which implies, among other things, that he was probably a well-known guitarist when he entered the queen's household in about 1704. Finally, the third part explores the ways in which this new evidence modifies some of our current views and assumptions on Santiago de Murcia's work, pointing out that some of his music had to be written at (or before) the beginning of 18th century and that at least two of the inheritors of his music papers had close contacts with Mexico, which might be related to the preservation of most of his sources there. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Spanish historical archives contain a vast store of information about Spain and its former colonies in America and Asia. Some searches for climate-related information within these archives have been undertaken recently, but they have been by no means exhaustive. This paper discusses the principal archives and shows, by means of several examples, that they exhibit a high potential for inferring past climate over a wide range of timescales and geographical areas. Extraction of such information is often time consuming, and requires a combination of archival, historical, and climatological expertise, and the development of individualized methodologies to fit each situation and type of data. In spite of these difficulties, the archives can be particularly useful in many cases where there are no alternative sources of climate data. Thus, the complexities of the multidisciplinary effort required should not discourage other researchers from undertaking similar studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we contextualise, describe and analyse the last attempt at land reform in Spain—the one passed by the Autonomous Parliament of Andalusia in 1984. The Andalusians had passed their Statute of Autonomy by referendum in 1981, incorporating the mandate to carry out an agrarian reform that would boost the rural economy, generate employment and balance the agricultural structure of this region in Southern Spain, peripheral to both national and European centres of power. The Andalusian socialist government complied with this mandate, pushing the agrarian reform law through and applying a package of reform measures, which met with resistance from landowners and conservative political forces from the outset. Political, economic, legal and administrative obstacles swiftly discouraged the Andalusian socialists from persevering in the endeavour, and at the beginning of the nineties, its dismantling began. Finally, in 2011 the end of the agrarian reform was declared, and with it, the waiver of the right to consider alternative models to the liberal management of the agricultural sector. Archives and newspaper libraries, as well as administrative and legal sources, have been consulted, and the information has been examined using content analysis and cross-checked and triangulated with the specialised literature. This article hails a breakthrough in the understanding of the socio-territorial scopes of an agrarian reform little studied to date. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Transparency is a principle that has attracted a good deal of international attention in recent years, especially in connection with combatting corruption and building open, participatory governments accountable to their citizens. Public libraries and archives are not only information suppliers, but also public bodies obliged to provide the citizenry with information about their own governance and activities. Those obligations are laid down in Spanish Act 19/2013 of 29 December on Transparency, Access to Public Information and Good Governance (Spanish initials LTAIPBG). This article describes the results of applying a transparency measuring tool, TransPa_BA, to 106 regionally administered national historic archives and national public libraries. The tool, in turn the result of a research project, includes 20 indicators to measure active public disclosure by public libraries and 22 by archives in keeping with the provisions of the aforementioned Act. The indicators and their respective parameters (visibility, content, form, accessibility, reusability, dating and currency) provide guidelines to enable these institutions to comply with transparency and accountability requirements by furnishing society in general and their stakeholders in particular with information on their activities and performance in key areas. Further to the findings, the target institutions have made hesitant attempts to enhance transparency with respect to earlier inquiries. Public libraries are observed to be more active than archives, although the transparency scores obtained are low due to the failure to provide information on some indicators as well as on parameters such as dating and reusability. Both types of institution have a long road ahead in the pursuit of greater transparency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research on Nursery History has a wide range of sources at its disposal. We must still investigate documents kept in professional colleges, as they are an accurate reflection of care and caregiver in the period of scientific development of the discipline. In this paper we shall describe the process of reorganization in the archive of the Nursery College in Huelva, as well as the situation of most Spanish nursery archives. Their classification aims to serve the College administration, which generates them, as well as the professionals and research, cultural diffusion and the reconstruction of this period of Nursery History. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article argues that family firms in which the top management team (TMT) is dominated by nonfamily managers are more likely to shift risk to employees through incentive pay schemes than family firms with TMTs dominated by family members. We also argue that this tendency is aggravated in firms of bigger size, as this condition makes nonfamily managers more vulnerable. We further note that differences between family‐ and non‐family‐dominated TMTs may lessen when the sales trend is negative. The analyses conducted on a sample of 219 family‐controlled car dealerships in Spain confirm our expectations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper updates a line of research on qualitative methodology from recent years, examining certain recent (and nascent) initiatives for the archiving of qualitative sociological research in Spain. The Spanish case is revisited and placed in a European context to focus attention on some of the pioneering archiving practices of different types (according to grade of visibility, institutionalization, etc.) currently being established in Spain. The case of the CIS qualitative studies archive is dealt with in depth; a strategic sample of its archived material serves to analyse the evolution that has taken place in transcription practices on the part of (among others) emblematic researchers. The results are compared to those obtained by other researchers with materials from the British archive, Qualidata. The concepts of quality and the backstage are related to the concept of the qualitative archive in order to lay out the fundamental methodological debate, as well as proposals to promote and improve a process now in progress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The archives of the Spanish council system have been little used by English language historians up until recently. Owing to the importance of Irish emigration to Spanish dominions in the earlymodern period, these archives contain considerable material relating to Irish immigration to the Hispanic Monarchy. In the light of the voluminous nature and complexity of the Castilian conciliar system, the utilisation of these archives represent a challenge for future historians. Nevertheless, the wealth of the material that they contain more than outweighs the necessary time and effort. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on the Arxiu i Seminari d' Història de la Psicologia of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Archive and Seminar for the History of Psychology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona) in Barcelona, Spain, which houses archival materials pertaining to Spanish psychologists. The influence of experimental psychologist Ramón Turró on the establishment of the Archive is described. Along with the works of Turró, the collection also holds work by other Spanish psychologists such as August Pi i Sunyer, Emilio Mira, and Jeroni Moragues. Donations of papers to the Archive are discussed.

Developing a relativistic concept of the pre-modern archive, this article considers the relationship between knowledge inside and outside the archive to determine how Spain's historical documents about its new American territories were kept and used. The starting assumption is that collections of documents about the Spanish Conquista circulated among people and were not permanently stored within fixed archival spaces, such as small lockable cases ( arcas), private collections of documents ( archivillos), or the actual state archives ( archivos). This article thus re-evaluates the state of knowledge about the new American territories of Spain and its distribution across various archives and collections. It draws particular attention to the use of historical documents by official chroniclers of Spain and historians of the Conquista of the Spanish Americas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports about an experience of records management automation taking place at the Regional Government of Andalusia. The aim was making possible the document and archival management of its Autonomic Archives, and consisted in the development and application of the @rchivA Information System. It was developd in the context of the Electronic Administration Scheme of the Regional Government of Andalusia, as an cross-cutting and horizontal application for the development of the archival activity in this administration. This article tries to offer a panoramic vision on the state of the technological structure of the @rchivA Information System, that is adapted to the requirements of document management along each step of the whole life cycle of the records, as well as to the requirements of the archival management in administrative units that provide public services. Thereafter, the main management guidelines of the @rchiva Project are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the paper that was presented by Guy Marecha about the Flexible and user friendly exploitation based on persistent media archives during the IASA conference in Barcelona, Spain. It details the cultural, socio-economic and political value of archives and how it is dependent on the three main qualities namely the natural interest of their substance, the ability to be exploited and their persistence. The system operates on the OAIS model which serves as a "Blue book" but does not have any specific implementation.

This study analysed and contextualised research on LAMs (acronym for libraries, archives and museums) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under competitive calls for projects from 2010 to 2020. The ultimate intention was to verify the existence or otherwise of a national research agenda on these cultural institutions. The initial search and location of Spanish Ministry-funded projects in official sources was followed by data processing and grouping by subject category. A total of 145 projects were analysed. The results showed LAM projects to be scant in number, highly varied in terms of subject matter, poorly funded, widely scattered across a number of areas of knowledge although with a prevalence of the humanities, and highly concentrated in certain institutions and disciplines. The subject-based analysis characterised LAM institutions, from the research perspective, as tools supporting other types of research but not themselves objects of study. None of the nationwide research plans was observed to include LAMs as a line of research. This study has essentially two practical implications. 1. It underscores the need for greater transparency among research project funding agencies; and 2. it defends the inclusion of LAMs among the items on a country's national research agenda deserving of funding to enhance awareness of their value, purpose and projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article informs that new and startling evidences have been culled from recently opened archives in the former Soviet Union regarding the 3,000 U.S. volunteers who formed the Abraham Lincoln Brigade to save the embattled Spanish Republic from fascist-backed military rebels in the Spanish Civil War. For decades after 1939, the keepers of the flame in the old Soviet Union denied the existence of such archives, fanning inflated claims about murky agents and mysterious events that may or may not have actually occurred in Spain. The opening of hitherto "secret" papers during the 1990s promised to put to rest several contentious historical issues and finally end debates about communism, the Lincoln Brigade, and the Spanish Civil War.

The exodus provoked by the Civil War (1936–1939) is, due to its magnitude, the principal field of study on Spanish exile. Nevertheless, during the Spanish Republic in peacetime (1931–1936), different exiles took place which have not raised as much interest within the historiography. This is the case of those that had to flee Spain after being involved in the October Revolution of 1934. They were anonymous activists, the middle ranks, and also well-known leaders of the working-class movement, many of whom would play an important role during the time of the Popular Front, the Civil War and exile. In order to carry out this study, the archives of the five French départements bordering Spain, the Archives Nationales and the Archives de la Préfecture de Police in Paris were consulted. That facilitated identifying two hundred and seventy-five refugees, as well as understanding important aspects of their route towards exile, how they crossed the border, what their the journey was and the vicissitudes they experienced in French territory and what the conduct of the French authorities was. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spain's national historic archives are entrusted with the custody of documents that shed light on historic events and periods of worldwide interest. Further to the country's Transparency Act (2013) and given such archives' importance as national scale public cultural institutions, their economic and financial information is pertinent and should be accessible to citizens. This study reviewed the economic and financial data available on the websites of eight historic archives in Spain and those of their parent institutions. That their activity does not pursue economic objectives is no reason for not providing an account of what they do, how they do it and the resources they deploy. Searches for a series of active disclosure-related indicators required under Spain's Transparency Act revealed that these archives fail to furnish any economic, budgetary or statistical information whatsoever on their websites. Those findings infer that the institutions at issue do not deem legal active disclosure obligations to be applicable to them as organizational units under the aegis of a higher-ranking body, in this case the Ministry of Culture. Archives are urged to adopt the good practices in place in other countries and make an effort to enhance their transparency, which would indisputably redound to their visibility, credibility and institutional image. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We study how high-involvement work practices (HIWPs) may enhance a firm's economic performance through the development of a proactive environmental strategy (PES). HIWP systems facilitate the implementation of a PES by promoting employees' ability, motivation, and opportunities to behave in ways consistent with environmental management goals. In turn, PESs contribute to the development of strategic competitive advantages and drive superior performance. The results of our empirical analysis of 233 firms broadly confirm our hypotheses and suggest that although the direct effect of HIWPs on performance was not signifi cant in our sample, HIWPs do have a significant indirect effect through a PES as a mediator. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Early marine diagenetic dolomite is a rather thermodynamically‐stable carbonate phase and has potential to act as an archive of marine porewater properties. However, the variety of early to late diagenetic dolomite phases that can coexist within a single sample can result in extensive complexity. Here, the archive potential of early marine dolomites exposed to extreme post‐depositional processes is tested using various types of analyses, including: petrography, fluid inclusion data, stable δ13C and δ18O isotopes, 87Sr/86Sr ratios, and U‐Pb age dating of various dolomite phases. In this example, a Triassic carbonate platform was dissected and overprinted (diagenetic temperatures of 50 to 430°C) in a strike‐slip zone in Southern Spain. Eight episodes of dolomitization, a dolostone cataclasite and late stage meteoric/vadose cementation were recognized. The following processes were found to be diagenetically relevant: (i) protolith deposition and fabric‐preservation, and marine dolomitization of precursor aragonite and calcite during the Middle–Late Triassic; (ii) intermediate burial and formation of zebra saddle dolomite and precipitation of various dolomite cements in a Proto‐Atlantic opening stress regime (T ca 250°C) during the Early–Middle Jurassic; (iii) dolomite cement precipitation during early Alpine tectonism, rapid burial to ca 15 km, and high‐grade anchizone overprint during Alpine tectonic evolution in the Early Eocene to Early Miocene; (iv) brecciation of dolostones to cataclasite during the onset of the Carboneras Fault Zone activity during the Middle Miocene; and (v) late‐stage regression and subsequent meteoric overprint. Data shown here document that, under favourable conditions, early diagenetic marine dolomites and their archive data may resist petrographic and geochemical resetting over time intervals of 108 or more years. Evidence for this preservation includes preserved Late Triassic seawater δ13CDIC values and primary fluid inclusion data. Data also indicate that oversimplified statements based on bulk data from other petrographically‐complex dolomite archives must be considered with caution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article illuminates essential and often-neglected legal and political contexts for the production of “classical” accounts of the conquest of America written by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478–1557), Bartolomé de las Casas (c. 1474–1566) and Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas (1549–1626). Biographical details regarding these authors extracted from legal cases reveal pecuniary and professional interests that influenced writings about the conquest of the Americans even beyond their own works. Unbeknown to generations of scholars, these men's litigious and political careers have left their mark on official archives and even Don Quixote. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]