Luis Cabeza Delgado

Luis Cabeza Delgado holds a degree in Translation and Interpreting (English) and a degree in Humanities from the Pablo de Olavide University in Seville. He completed a Master’s degree in Advanced Studies and Research in History at the University of Salamanca, where he was awarded the Extraordinary End-of-Master’s Prize in recognition of his academic excellence. He is currently the recipient of a University Teaching Training Fellowship (FPU) granted by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. He is enrolled in the doctoral programme in History and Humanistic Studies at the Pablo de Olavide University in Seville. His doctoral thesis focuses on power relations within the chapter of Seville Cathedral during the Late Middle Ages. He has published work in Medievalismo: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Estudios Medievales and is co-editor of the ongoing publication Reglas de hermandades y cofradías andaluzas: siglos XVII y XVIII. In addition, he has participated in conferences and symposia held at institutions such as the Universidad del Salvador (Buenos Aires) and the University of Lleida, presenting his research on Church history from various perspectives. He has also undertaken an international research stay at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany. At present, he serves as editor-in-chief of the academic journal Bajo Guadalquivir y Mundos Atlánticos, published by Pablo de Olavide University. He is a member of the Centro de Estudios e Investigación de la Religiosidad Andaluza (HUM-686).

Laura Díaz Gutiérrez

Laura Díez Gutiérrez is a PhD candidate in Medieval History at the University of León (Spain). Her doctoral research focuses on violence and social conflict in León (Spain) during the transitional period between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern era. She is currently involved in the research project entitled “Violencia, conflictividad y mecanismos de control en el Noroeste de la Península Ibérica (siglos XVI-XIX)”, and collaborates with the research group Historia y Arqueología (HIST-ARQ). She is also a member of the Institute of Medieval Studies, at the University of León. Although her research is primarily concerned with social conflicts in the Middle Ages approached through the lens of social history, she also explores related fields, including gender history, women’s history and the history of book.

Antonio J. López

Doctor in History from the University of Oviedo (Spain) in 1988 with the work “La cancillería de Alfonso X a través de las fuentes legales y la realidad documental”. Associate Professor of the University Pablo de Olavide. Member of the Department of Geography, History and Philosophy and Head of the Area of Sciences and Historiographic Techniques of the Faculty of Humanities. Member of several research groups related to notarial documentation from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Specialist in the chancellery of Alfonso X of which he has published about fifteen works among them: “La tradición documental en la cancillería de Alfonso X” (1993); “Registros y registradores en la cancillería de Alfonso X” (1995); “La génesis documental en la cancillería real alfonsí” (2016); “Los scriptoria del siglo XIII en la corona de Castilla” (2017); “El uso del sello de oro en la cancillería de Alfonso X” (2021); “Documentos en pergamino de panno en la cancillería de Alfonso X” (2023).

Jose M. Miura

José María Miura holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Seville. He taught at the Universities of Seville (1985-1993) and Huelva (1993-1998) before joining the Pablo de Olavide University as an associate professor in 1998. He has held various academic positions and has collaborated as director and lecturer in several postgraduate courses in Spain, Ecuador, France and Colombia, in addition to his university. He is co-director of the Master in Latin American History, Indigenous Worlds at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide.

He is the director of the Centro de Estudios e Investigación de la Religiosidad Andaluza (CEIRA), within the Andalusian Research Plan, (HUM-686), and collaborates in various research projects, both regional, national and international. He has published several books and is the author of more than fifty articles and scientific contributions related to the Andalusian reality between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and its Atlantic relations. Among them are those related to the mendicant orders, the confraternities or the female religiosity (the beatas), the social organization of space and the settlement systems.

Silvia Pérez González

Doctor in History, Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Spain), Doctor Dissertation on Society and Church in Seville at the End of the Middle Ages, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, 2001. Cureently Professor at the Department of Geography, History and Philosophy, Area of Medieval History, and Director of the Seminary of Gender Studies. University of Pablo de Olavide. Member of several projects, Construir la Ciudad (Universidad de León), Monastic Landscapes (Universidad de Barcelona) and Cities in the Kingdom of Castile (Universidad Complutense) and Sorores (Écoles Française de Rome). Recent publications include Mujeres y Hermandades. La feminización del mundo cofrade(2022), “La religiosidad de los testamentos del fondo Ilustrísima Señora Doña Pilar Ponce de León y de las Heras (siglos XV-XVI)” (2022)

Alejandro Ríos Conejero

PhD from the Complutense University of Madrid with a thesis entitled “Urban hierarchy in the kingdom of Seville: competition, collaboration, and rivalries in the early modern world” under the joint supervision of Dr. María Asenjo González and Dr. Antonio Collantes de Terán Sánchez. Prior to that, he completed a Master's Degree in Advanced Studies and Research in History at the University of Zaragoza, where he also earned a degree in History. He is a specialist in Urban History in the Late Middle Ages and in political elites in the Kingdom of Aragon in the 14th and 15th centuries, a subject on which he has published a monograph, several book chapters, and articles in various scientific journals. He is a member of the working team for various research projects: CIUCASDIN: Cities in Castile and America 1300-1600 (ref. HAR2017-82983-P); RENAP: Natural resources and productive activities in the interior of the Crown of Aragon (14th-16th centuries) (ref. PID2021-123509NB-I00) and TRASLATIOCAST: The transfer of urban models and experiences in Castile and the Atlantic (14th-16th centuries) (ref. PID2022-136241NB-C22). He has been a member of the HISEURAM research group (with a mention of excellence and based in the Department of American and Medieval History and Historiographical Sciences at the UCM) since 2020 and of the Young Scientific Council of the Institute of Teruel Studies since 2024. He has taught at the University of Experience at the University of Zaragoza (2019-2020 academic year) and has given practical classes in various subjects in the History and Art History degrees at the Complutense University of Madrid (2020-2023). He has also been part of various teaching innovation projects at the UCM between the 2020-2021 and 2024-2025 academic years, has developed various teaching innovation activities and has presented the results at several conferences on the same subject, as well as publishing articles on innovation in higher education. At the same time, he has actively participated in several outreach and transfer projects, notably coordinating the content and curating the exhibitions “Las Señoras de Sijena. La vida cotidiana en un monasterio femenino (siglos XII-XX)” (The Ladies of Sijena. Daily life in a women's monastery (12th-20th centuries)) and “Pedro Martínez de Luna y Pérez de Gotor: la forja de un Papa” (Pedro Martínez de Luna y Pérez de Gotor: the making of a Pope), respectively. Since 2016, he has been working as a historical advisor for various historical festivals through the Isabel Wedding Foundation.

Contact: arios04@ucm.es