Networks of Power in Medieval Societies is an interdisciplinary research group composed of specialists in al-Andalus (Eduardo Manzano), Christian kingdoms (Inés Calderón, Julio Escalona, Cristina Jular Pérez-Alfaro, and Ana Rodríguez), medieval art (Therese Martin), and archaeology (Fabio Giovannini), with Ramón y Cajal researchers in al-Andalus (Jorge Elices) and art (Jitske Jasperse), plus pre- and post-doctoral researchers on project-based contracts.

The GECCMA research group aims to analyse the processes underpinning the formation of the Atlantic World and, in particular, the Greater Caribbean. Our purpose is to address the multiple Caribbean realities from a transversal perspective, in which comparative analysis makes it possible to identify the singularity of this space through social, cultural, economic and urban history, gender studies, and maritime archaeology. Within this vast sphere, economic and political systems were established, alongside societies, cultures and identities shaped by a continuous process of transculturation.

Interdisciplinary group (History, Anthropology, Sociology, Communication Sciences, Biology) that articulates its studies on the American area from five basic lines (16th to 21st centuries): a) Knowledge, developments and institutional actors; b) State, political violence and social movements, criminality and judicialisation; c) Science and culture; d) Intellectual elites; e) Ethnohistory and culture. Trans-oceanic mobility and displacement, cross-cutting gender perspective.

The group aims to study the visual culture and the artistic processes in the modern societies (15th and 21st centuries), especially during contemporaneity. It departs from the novelties linked to the printing invention, regarding reproductibility and the spreading of images and texts, up to the globalized visual culture, opened to new technologies and digital humanities. This interdisciplinary focus integrates traditional perspectives and genders of the discipline with other artistic, critic, graphic and documentary realities and approaches to collective imaginaries.

The activity of the research group focuses on the study and analysis of European society in its evolution from the middle ages to the era of industrialization and even later, with special attention to the areas of the economy, politics and infrastructures, as well as the one concerning recent historiography published in Spain and its diffusion.

Social studiez on the Spanish Golden Age, further more the Humanism and the Historiography, and the making of the protonational identity forms. Social study of the cultural forms, mostly those written during the Renaissnce and the Late Renaissance. Biographies of the humanists, the cultural intermediaries and the makers of the cultural images.

The Research Group (RG) studies the Iberian societies of the western Mediterranean in the broader context of cultural contact, colonialism and the social transformations associated with the formation of the Mediterranean states of the I millennium. The RG focuses mainly on the analysis of the social structure and territorial organization of Iberian societies.

Our work is brought together and united by a shared interest in the social and geographical displacements of science.

The objective of our research is the analysis of the Iberian world, in a twofold purpose: on the one hand, the peculiarities and the factors of identity that characterize the different peninsular territories and, at the same time, their internal differences, emphasizing the cultural, political, ideological and religious components. On the other hand, arises the image projected by Iberian to the outside world, the broad lines of their mechanisms of action against other political formations, beyond the concrete joints, and the use of different diplomatic levels to carry out these purposes.