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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 The author comments on the collection referred to as the Papeles Varios, a collection of historical documents related to the religious order of the Jesuits in Spain, which date from the 16th to the 20th centuries.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.

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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.

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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]

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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]

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]

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 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]

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 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 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.

This FQS issue on archives and biographical methods is a special occasion to inform about a European initiative for the promotion and exchange of experiences of qualitative research in the social sciences. The whole project was designed as a a four-year (2006-2010) European Science Foundation program known by the acronym EUROQUAL. This article intends to provide some ideas and methodological reflections arising from the Madrid EUROQUAL-Workshop on Archives and Life-History Research (21-23 September 2009). The key point concerns what I suggest to name archival and biographical research "sensitivity." It has to do with the issues of research quality, research economy and the conception of social research as patrimony. Approaches in the European landscape also serve to highlight the contrasting situation in Spain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this article is to present the "Archive of Mourning," a research project that focuses on the mourning ritual practices in public spaces that took place after the train bombings in Madrid on March 11th 2004. Due to the magnitude of these public mourning rituals, the impact of the bombings in Spanish society and the variety of voices expressed at the stations, a group of researchers working at the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC) started a project to document and analyze the memorials at the stations. The twofold objective of documenting and analyzing the memorialization practices made this research project an interdisciplinary endeavor from the beginning; an initiative in which librarians, anthropologists and literature scholars collaborated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the archival history produced by the Spanish diplomatic representation in China. The author discusses the institutional history of Spanish representation in China from the early 19th century until the 1970s and notes the impact on the archives of the rupture of diplomatic relations in 1946. He considers how the archives were recovered from Shanghai, China, taken to Taipei (Taiwan) in the early 1950s and later included in Spain's Archivo General de la Administración (General Archive of the Administration).