In 1757, Robert-François Damiens injured Louis XV by stabbing him with a penknife. The authorities and the press described the attack as an extraordinary event carried out by a fanatic who had nothing to do with the tensions that were shaking the country. However, the o...

For many years it was believed that Beatriz Galindo, called the Latina, had been Queen Isabel la Católica's teacher between 1486 and 1504, but some investigations have shown that during this period of time she was only a domestic servant of the Queen's House. There are ...

Las nobles que tuvieron el rol de amantes de personalidades políticas relevantes apenas han sido tratadas por la historiografía hispana. El presente trabajo aborda las relaciones familiares que sostuvo doña Ana de Gurrea (ca. 1475-1528), concubina durante casi dos decen...

The copy of diplomatic documents was one of the methods that the first permanent embassies used to carry out their mission of gathering information from the diplomatic relations of other political formations. In this study we will observe how this practice was carried o...

While much has been written about the passive voice in scientific writing, similar interest involving humanities writing in general has been more modest. A paucity of diachronic studies also raises the need to understand more about how passive use has changed over time ...

There is growing interest into how cultural frameworks produce stereotypes of "masculine" and "feminine" foods. The patterns and dynamics of this process have been discussed mainly from a socio-cultural perspective, but the research thus far has failed to create a conce...