Ana Crespo Solana
Ana Crespo Solana (Cádiz, Spain, 1965-) Professor and researcher at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas,Madrid, España.http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5807-7751Scientific Leadership Profile: I have participated in diverse research projects funded by several national and international institutions. This participation has become solid foundations for my specialisation in Economic History of the Early Modern Age and, specially, in the study of the European colonial and commercial expansion over the Atlantic World and its impact on the socioeconomic and cultural. My education in Spain and The Netherlands has provided me with an important opportunity for scientific experience in the research line of Economic and Social History, and has allowed me to establish strong academic links in both countries. During my PhD training I worked in a research project on the rise of Capitalism in the XVIII century, with a special focus on financial instruments in Euro-American maritime and trading connections and foreign merchants in the Spanish trade with America. Between 1989 and 1999, I combined my work in Cadiz and Leiden. In 1994 I was rewarded an Extraordinary Award by the University of Cadiz. I also studied at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and obtained a Master Degree in Latinoamerican History at the International University of Andalucía (La Rábida, Huelva). During my pre-doctoral training period I was the recipient of several grants and awards from the Spanish, Dutch and Belgium governments, the Dutch-Spanish Agreement for Research, from the Regional Andalusian Government (Junta de Andalucía), the Bank of Spain (Centre for Economic Studies) and the Caja Madrid Foundation. In 1998 I obtained a special award of Research in Humanities of the Fundación Municipal de Cultura, Cátedra Adolfo de Castro, Ayuntamiento de Cádiz. In 1999 I obtained my PhD degree in History with an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the role played by Dutch and Flemish merchant networks in Spanish economy. So far, the historiography of Spanish colonial trade had held a perspective based on traditional, nationalist ideas where emphasis was laid on the tremendous effort made by Spain in maintaining her colonies and the supposedly detrimental role played by foreign merchants. My thesis became a turning point whereby an entirely new, unique hypothesis that had never been laid out before is used and which aims at breaking through those barriers by researching a pan-European topic: Early Modern Trade Networks. The outcome of these works has been published in several books listed at the end of this CV. Since 1999 I have had the opportunity to work together with several specialists in Global and Atlantic History with special focus on European Atlantic trade, merchant community networks in the Early Modern period and the Spanish System with the American colonies during the XVII and XVIII centuries. The impact of my scientific contribution is based on the development of a genuine and original line of research based on the significance of analyzing the expansion of trading networks that spread out along with an enormous expansion seen on European foreign trade, which expansions were a determining factor in the formation, consolidation and evolution of cultural and economic social environments. According to some quotations and comments by my colleagues, my worth resides in linking the Spanish historiography on trade and commercial relations with the countries of the North Sea area, in learning the languages needed as well as carrying out much needed research in the relevant archives of the region, and delivering essential studies that link these geographical areas with the Iberian Peninsula and the Caribbean. This research line has opened new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of globalization of the economy and networks. From 2000 onwards, my specialization has focused on historical Studies on European Integrating Networks of maritime relations and trading. In 2000 I was granted a postdoctoral fellowship from the Spanish Government and the Regional Government of Madrid (Comunidad de Madrid) which allowed me to work at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Madrid. I combined my research work at the CSIC with several short stays at various other centres elsewhere in Europe, such as the London School of Economics, the Historisches Seminal - University of Hamburg, or the Institute for the History of European Expansion - Leiden. I have also taken part in further specialisation courses and activities for the dissemination of knowledge in different universities.
Supervisors: Manuel Bustos Rodríguez, Pieter C. Emmer, and Eddy Stols
Phone: 00 34 916022329
Address: IH CCHS-CSIC
c) Albasanz 26-28
28037 Madrid
Supervisors: Manuel Bustos Rodríguez, Pieter C. Emmer, and Eddy Stols
Phone: 00 34 916022329
Address: IH CCHS-CSIC
c) Albasanz 26-28
28037 Madrid
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merchant ships, sunk in 1527 in the Bay of Saint-Florent (Upper-
Corsica, France) during the Seventh Italian War. A programme of
archaeological excavations and historical research has been held on
one of them, Mortella III, between 2010 and 2020. It has involved a
multidisciplinary team around a European research project called
ModernShip (Horizon 2020), whose objective is to shed light on
Mediterranean shipbuilding during the Renaissance, a field still little
known to this day.
At the end of these 10 years, the aim of the present article is to
conclude this research programme with the presentation of a
scientific review that complements a recently published monograph
on the Mortella III wreck. This study presents the latest results on the
ship's architecture obtained during the excavation of the wreck in
2019, including a study of the wood of the framework.
Finally, this article broadens our understanding of the nave presenting
the results of a collaborative line of research on material culture with
three studies in close connection with the ship architecture: artillery,
anchors and ceramics.
merchant ships, sunk in 1527 in the Bay of Saint-Florent (Upper-
Corsica, France) during the Seventh Italian War. A programme of
archaeological excavations and historical research has been held on
one of them, Mortella III, between 2010 and 2020. It has involved a
multidisciplinary team around a European research project called
ModernShip (Horizon 2020), whose objective is to shed light on
Mediterranean shipbuilding during the Renaissance, a field still little
known to this day.
At the end of these 10 years, the aim of the present article is to
conclude this research programme with the presentation of a
scientific review that complements a recently published monograph
on the Mortella III wreck. This study presents the latest results on the
ship's architecture obtained during the excavation of the wreck in
2019, including a study of the wood of the framework.
Finally, this article broadens our understanding of the nave presenting
the results of a collaborative line of research on material culture with
three studies in close connection with the ship architecture: artillery,
anchors and ceramics.
to the utilisation of Cartesian geometry increasingly evident from the 16th century onwards. This proposal has, as its primary objective, the realization of a dialogue between historians and archaeologists with the purpose of writing an interdisciplinary proposal for funded research on the development of the global ship, emphasizing the socio-anthropological and historical-archaeological investigation of the conditions that produced the development of shipbuilding industries related to the maritime expansion of the 15th to the 19th centuries.
The focus of the proposal will be on the following research questions: What was the role of individual agency in the circulation of knowledge about shipbuilding?; Can synthesis of the evidence from historical documents and archaeological investigations provide new insight into this transfer of technology through knowledge exchange, and assist in evaluation of the impact of this transfer between geographical spaces?; What was the relationship between the demand for timber used as a fundamental natural resource for shipbuilding, the politicization of such resources and the social and economic pressures on these forest resources?; How might we analyse the importance of the travels of master carpenters and caulkers on the transmission of technological information between Europe and the Americas since the first oceanic voyages?
The geographical and chronological scope is intentionally broad in order to create a comparative and innovative analytical scheme encompassing the various European and American port regions linked to maritime expansion, where important transfers of knowledge of shipbuilding techniques took place. The project depends on the GIS resources created on ships, maritime routes and agents throughout previous projects led by the PI (Crespo Solana). These data will provide the foundation, in conjunction with the evidence of submerged archaeological remains of historic shipwrecks, for an experimental model allowing multiple modes of analysis. This proposal will also utilise recent results obtained in another research projects. The overarching aim is to create, through the realization of a series of "milestones", an open and innovative research line developing the results of these
previous studies through an interdisciplinary method which synthesises historical and archaeological perspectives and encompasses studies on the archetypes of both Iberian and non-Iberian shipbuilding traditions.
Con este plan de trabajo propuesto de 30 meses se pretende depurar datos y perfeccionar el Visor WEB en un modelo de base para una plataforma SIG. Dicho SIG se usará como herramienta de integración y de visualización de capas de información acerca de la localización geográfica de naufragios, información sobre barcos, productos y artefactos registrados en sitios sumergidos (durante las campañas arqueológicas del proyecto), y permitirá realizar análisis socioeconómicos sobre los agentes que protagonizaron estas
navegaciones. La base de datos ForSEAdiscovery no solo integra datos de anteriores recopilatorios realizados por miembros del proyecto (como la base de datos DynCoopNet actualmente en el Repositorio Digital del CSIC), sino que se ha visto enriquecida con una gran cantidad de información procedentes de diversas fuentes archivísticas, bases de datos y literatura así como aquella recogida por colaboradores externos del proyecto.
Hasta el momento esta información no ha podido ser completamente procesada, pero se ha logrado un catálogo de referencia básica sobre comercio marítimo que reúne identificación de navíos históricos con datos arqueológicos sobre pecios excavados así como un prototipo de visor web desarrollada en la USIG del CCHSCSIC, actualmente en formato Beta. Además se ha obtenido una rica información sobre el comercio de madera y las rutas marítimas así como la propia dinámica de las redes mercantiles (Merchant Networks) en esta economía de explotación forestal y de recursos navales.
Rosa Varela Gomes, ed. The management of Forest Resources in Iberian Empires, Lisbon, 2015
In the case of Catholic Netherlands, Philip IV was trying to find a solution from 1641 onwards. Nevertheless, the military defeats of 1643-1646 slowed his thought up until 1656, when he nominated Infant Juan José (1629-1679) as Governor General. During his stay in Brussels (1656-1659), Infant Juan José established a new political order which still needed to be continued. For that reason at the beginning of the 60’s, Philip IV named his son governor general during his lifetime. Otherwise the King was still reluctant to trust the governing in Flemish aristocracy.
Infant Juan Jose was aware of the political crisis of the Catholic Monarchy. Henceforth, he started off a new policy, different from the one his father had done before. Unlike his father, Infant John trusted Flemish aristocracy and used the royal patronage giving to Flemish aristocracy employs across the length and breadth of Spanish Monarchy. Moreover, he set up several marriage agreements in order to relate the universal government of the Monarchy to Flemish, Aragoneses, the Valencians, Catalonian and new elites. This policy was continued until the end of the century not only by him, but also by other ministers.
Therefore, the main goal of this panel is to analyse the political reconfiguration of Catholic Netherlands during the second half of the seventeenth century taking into account the importance of policies, religion and marriages.
establishment of physical measures applied on this wreck for the first time also represents an advance in the conservation of submerged sites.