The Instituto de Estudios Gallegos Padre Sarmiento (IEGPS) regularly organizes specialized seminars focused on history, art, and society. These academic meetings are held at the institute’s headquarters at Rúa de San Roque 2, in Santiago de Compostela. On May 28th, Iván García Izquierdo had the opportunity to participate with his…
Welcome to CONNECT2’s website, where you will find, among other things, a summary of our objectives and research lines, a presentation of the team members and publications related to the project. A section on news and events will detail the project’s activities. CONNECT2: A Renewed Combinative Approach to Cross-Cultural Connections…
The first edition of the project’s Spring Seminars will take place tomorrow, 6 May 2026. It has been organized by Andrea Aparicio Lozano and Jesús Lorenzo Jiménez under the title Explotar la tierra: recursos, prácticas agrarias y dinámicas sociales entre fronteras en la Alta Edad Media.
On 21 April 2026, David Peterson and Leticia Agúndez delivers a paper entitled “Voluntary female immurement in early medieval Spain” at the International Conference Borders, Boundaries and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages hosted by the University of Oxford. Borders, Boundaries and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the…
Miércoles Culturales is an initiative of the students’ delegation of the University of Cantabria. Our teammate, PhD student Pablo Acal Maravert, participated in a session on 15 April 2026 with a talk entitled La Iglesia en armas: obispos en el campo de batalla en la Edad Media, one of his…
Our teammate, Pablo Acal Maravert gave a lecture entitled Episcopado y monacato en el mundo anglonormando: San Wulfstan y la comunidad de Worcester en los siglos XI y XII at the CLIO Seminar on 27 March 27 2026.
Leticia Agúndez participated in the research seminar organised by the CLIO group (Ancient and Medieval Studies) with a lecture titled ‘The Wall as a Social Boundary and a Means of Spiritual Liberation: The Phenomenon of Walled-Up Women in Medieval La Rioja (11th–13th Centuries)”. The lecture was held on 6 March…
Francesca Tinti was invited to speak on 25 March 2026 at University College Cork within the programme of the Seminar for Ancient and Medieval Studies. Her talk was entitled ‘Female Mobility in Early Medieval England’.
On 3 March 2026, Leticia Agúndez was invited to speak at the third ongoing Humanities seminar at UNIR. Her talk entitled titled ‘Preserving, Erasing, and Shaping Culture’, with a presentation on ‘The Culture of Documentary Forgery in the Middle Ages: Between Archival Manipulation and the Creation of a New Historical…
The Historia Euskaraz (“History in Basque”) lecture series will begin on 11 February 2026. This initiative aims to disseminate in Basque, as the title indicates, the historical research conducted at the University of the Basque Country. Over four events, the audience will have the opportunity to listen to several researchers…
On 11-13 December 2025 Francesca Tinti took part in an international colloquium organized by the RomaTre University in Rome. She presented a paper entiled ‘Affrontare il viaggio verso Roma nell’alto Medieovo: rischi, difficoltà e preparativi nella mobilità devozionale d’Oltralpe’. With a team of archaeologists and numismatists she also co-authored a…
Francesca Tinti was invited to deliver a public lecture on 18 November 2025 to the Medieval Histories Research Group of the University of Oslo. Her talk was entitled ‘Mediating Distance: Identity and Communication in Travel from Early Medieval England’. _Francesca Tinti poster lecture Oslo
From 25 to 27 November 2025, the Álava Campus of the University of the Basque Country hosted the First International Congress on the History of the Basque Language. Exploring Texts and Varieties (ICBH1), an event organized by the Monumenta Linguae Vasconum, a research group of the Department of Linguistics and…
As part of the 8th Cluniac Conference, held on 18 October 2025 in the town of Oña, Leticia Agúndez presented her paper titled ‘Women’s Memory in the Early Monastery of San Salvador de Oña’. [Video available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLU977ep3fY
On 15 October 2025 Francesca Tinti delivered a lecture entitled ‘Long-distance Travel from Early Medieval Britain’ at Oxford. The event was organized by the Oxford Centre for Early Medieval Britian and Ireland and was followed by a workshop featuring speakers from other European and British universities.
Iván García Izquierdo and David Peterson participated on the “II International Congress on El Cid: “Rodrigo Díaz in his European Context: Is the pen mightier than the sword?”, held at the Forum Evolución in Burgos from September, 30 to October, 2. In this paper, the authors explored how the Cid…