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Course: 2025/2026

The modern history of Spain
(13810)
Bachelor in Humanities (2008 Study Plan) (Plan: 156 - Estudio: 213)


Coordinating teacher: VILLALBA PEREZ, ENRIQUE

Department assigned to the subject: Humanities: History, Geography and Art Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course:
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Objectives
1. Define and relate the concepts, limits and own sources of the history of Spain in modern times. 2. Know the main lines of work and analysis on this historical period. 3. Define the relationship between socio-economic structures and culture and its manifestations in Spanish history of the period. 4. Identify and analyze common processes throughout history in the relationship between society, economy, culture and politics. 5. Determine a scheme of relationships between processes Hispanic period and its European context. 6. Using Fonts and resources relevant to the study of these processes and relationships. 7. Reload such issues and assess the impact of learning on the survival or crisis of values ¿¿constituting the "modernity" in today's world.
Learning Outcomes
LEARNING OUTCOMES 1.Have acquired advanced theoretical and practical knowledge and demonstrated an understanding of the theoretical and practical aspects and working methodologies of the Humanities, so as to achieve a high level of knowledge generation. 2.Be able, by means of arguments or procedures developed and supported by themselves, to apply their knowledge, understanding and problem-solving skills in complex areas concerning the Humanities, including specialised professional activities requiring the use of creative and innovative ideas. 3.Have the ability to collect and interpret data and information on which to base their conclusions, including, where necessary and relevant, reflection on social, scientific or ethical issues in the field of the Humanities. BASIC COMPETENCES 1.Students have demonstrated possession and understanding of knowledge in an area of study that builds on the foundation of general secondary education, and is usually at a level that, while relying on advanced textbooks, also includes some aspects that involve knowledge from the cutting edge of their field of study 3.Students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their field of study) in order to make judgements which include reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues. 4.Students should be able to communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences. GENERAL COMPETENCES 1.Acquire the essential knowledge of the various subjects of the humanities disciplines: History, Art, Philosophy, Literature, Spanish Language, Languages, Geography and Classical Culture; of their epistemological evolution and of the relationship of each one with related scientific disciplines, starting from the knowledge acquired in secondary education and up to a level that guarantees knowledge of the state-of-the-art in the study of the Humanities. 2.To develop the linguistic and cultural competences of their community language 3.Acquire the different methods of analysis, synthesis, research and thought corresponding to the humanities disciplines studied. 4.Learning to produce ¿knowledge¿ related to the various humanities subjects. 6.Acquiring the ability to introduce and apply critical thinking when analysing information, data, ideas, opinions and concepts related to the world of the Humanities. 7.Acquiring the ability to tackle problems and provide solutions concerning issues related to humanities disciplines. SPECIFIC COMPETENCES 1.Knowing and being able to define and relate the concepts, limits and sources of the subjects concerning humanistic disciplines, as well as knowing the main lines of work and analysis of history, geography, culture, thought and language. 2.Knowing and being able to interpret texts, materials and creations linked to the world of thought, history, geography, theoretical reflection, culture and art, through their correct spatio-temporal contextualisation. 3.Being able to identify and analyse common processes, throughout history, in the relations between society and its intellectual, artistic and cultural productions. 4.Being able to produce analytical texts, essays and reports with rigour and applying a scientific method in accordance with good research and professional practices. 7.Learning and being able to apply the interdisciplinary approach of the degree in related disciplines, both in the world of culture and in the world of thought, communication, historical and geographical studies and creation and representation.
Description of contents: programme
Study of Spanish history from the late fifteenth to the late eighteenth century through especially political processes, social relations and cultural productions of modernity appropriate disciplinary perspective to the Humanities, all in relation with the literature, the theater or the Arts: - Previous concepts: modernity. Chronological and geographical limits. Periodization. Sources and bibliography. - The origin of modern times in the Peninsula: new economic spaces, social, cultural, geographical and political. - The Spanish Monarchy. Power and Society in Habsburg times. The Golden and the Baroque in Spain. - Bourbon and Illustration: reforms, transition contradictions and Spanish in the eighteenth century.
Learning activities and methodology
Acquisition of knowledge and skills (4 ECTS) through lectures, teaching materials prepared by the teacher? Dossiers with outlines, recommended readings, texts and documents; presentations with images for each teaching unit, network documentation-, required specialized reading and through personal work study students face and online tutoring. It will complement the content with visits, exhibitions, museums, archives, theater ... - and some seminar or conference.   The theoretical knowledge are related to studies on the documentation provided with the skills and abilities in integrated education. It is related to competencies 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Acquisition of skills and abilities (2 ECTS) through text comments and discussions on readings and a critical memory compulsory individually. It relates to the powers 4, 5, 6 and 7.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination/test 50
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 50

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Extraordinary call: regulations
Basic Bibliography
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  • FEROS, Antonio y GELABERT, Juan, dirs.,. Espan¿a en tiempos del Quijote. Taurus. 2004
  • GARCÍA CÁRCEL, Ricardo, . Las culturas del Siglo de Oro. Historia 16. 1989
  • IGLESIAS, Carmen, dir.,. El mundo que vivió Cervantes. SECC. 2005
  • VV.AA.,. El Siglo del Quijote (1580-1680). Las Letras. Las Artes. Espasa. 1996
Additional Bibliography
  • ALVAR EZQUERRA, Alfredo,. El nacimiento de una capital europea. Madrid entre 1561 y 1606. Turner. 1986
  • BLASCO ESQUIVIAS, Beatriz,. «Grandeza y miseria de Madrid en el Siglo de Oro», El Madrid de Vela¿zquez y Caldero¿n. Villa y Corte en el siglo XVII, Miguel Mora¿n & Bernardo J. Garci¿a, eds.. Ayuntamiento de Madrid/Fundacio¿n Caja Madrid. 2000
  • BOUZA A¿LVAREZ, Fernando,. Corre manuscrito. Una historia cultural del Siglo de Oro. Marcial Pons. 2001
  • BOUZA A¿LVAREZ, Fernando,. «Da¿sele licencia y privilegio». Don Quijote y la aprobacio¿n de libros en el Siglo de Oro. Akal. 2012
  • BOUZA A¿LVAREZ, Fernando, . El libro y el cetro. La biblioteca de Felipe IV en la Torre Alta del Alca¿zar de Madrid. Fundacio¿n Germa¿n Sa¿nchez Ruipe¿rez. 2006
  • BURKE, Peter, . Los avatares de El Cortesano. Lecturas y lectores de un texto clave del espi¿ritu renacentista,. Gedisa. 1998
  • CASTILLO GO¿MEZ, Antonio, comp., . Escribir y leer en el siglo de Cervantes. Gedisa. 1999
  • CA¿TEDRA, PEDRO M. & ROJO, ANASTASIO, . Bibliotecas y lecturas de mujeres. Siglo XVI. Instituto de Historia del Libro y de la Lectura. 2004
  • CHARTIER, Roger,. El orden de los libros. Lecturas, autores, bibliotecas en Europa entre los siglos XIV y XVIII. Gedisa. 1994
  • GONZA¿LEZ SA¿NCHEZ, Carlos Alberto & MAILLARD A¿LVAREZ, Natalia,. Orbe tipogra¿fico. El mercado del libro en la Sevilla de la segunda mitad del siglo XVI. Trea. 2003
  • GUERRERO MAYLLO, Ana,. El Gobierno Municipal de Madrid (1560-1606). Instituto de Estudios Madrilen¿os. 1993
  • HERNA¿NDEZ, Mauro,. A la sombra de la Corona. Poder local y oligarqui¿a urbana (Madrid, 1606-1808). Siglo XXI. 1995
  • INFANTES, Vi¿ctor; LOPEZ, Franc¿ois; BOTREL, Jean-Franc¿ois (dirs.),. Historia de la edicio¿n y de la lectura en Espan¿a, 1472-1914. Fundacio¿n Germa¿n Sa¿nchez Ruipe¿rez. 2003
  • MOLL, Jaime, . De la imprenta al lector. Estudios sobre el libro espan¿ol de los siglos XVI al XVII. Arco Libros. 1994
  • MORANT, Isabel, dir.,. Historia de las mujeres en Espan¿a y Ame¿rica Latina, 2 vols.. Cátedra. 2005
  • RI¿O BARREDO, Mari¿a Jose¿ del,. Madrid. Urbs Regia. La capital ceremonial de la Monarqui¿a Cato¿lica. Marcial Pons. 2000
  • TENORIO GO¿MEZ, Pilar,. Las madrilen¿as de mil seiscientos: imagen y realidad. Comunidad de Madrid. 2003
  • TOMA¿S Y VALIENTE, Francisco,. «Delincuentes y pecadores», en Sexo barroco y otras transgresiones premodernas. Alianza . 1990
  • VIGIL, Marilo¿, . La vida de las mujeres en los siglos XVI y XVII,. Siglo XXI. 1986 (2a ed., 1994)
  • VILLALBA, Enrique, . ¿Pecadoras o delincuentes?. Delito y ge¿nero en la Corte de los Austrias,. Calambur. 2004
  • VILLALBA, Enrique, . La administracio¿n de la justicia penal en Castilla y en la Corte a comienzos del siglo XVII. Actas. 1993
  • VILLALBA, Enrique, . «Marginacio¿n y delincuencia», en la obra colectiva El Madrid de Caldero¿n y Vela¿zquez. Villa y corte en el siglo XVII, vol. I, pp. 169-180. Ayuntamiento/Fundacio¿n Caja Madrid. 2001

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