Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

Small-scale fishing is an economic activity that provides nutritious food for the population and contributes to the generation of wealth. Currently, fishing faces challenges such as overexploitation, illegal fishing, marine pollution, and climate change. To overcome these challenges the 2030 Sustainable Development Objectives include a 15-year agenda and advocate for environmental protection, food security and sustainable economic growth. Under this global panorama, research is committed to the objectives from a local context: to reveal the territorial structure and the territorial impacts of the coastal commercial fishing activity in the ports of the El Palmar State Reserve (47,931.45 ha): Celestún and Sisal (Yucatan, Mexico). Theories about the spatial organization of the economy and the territorial impact underpin this research that is supported by quantitative data and qualitative information. Results reflect the predominance of negative impacts because the activity lacks territorial ordering. This calls into question the sustainability of coastal fishing in that protected natural area.

Taxus Medio Ambiente. Entidad para el territorio 2022.

In the outmost southwestern territories of the Cora of Santaver, a complex habitat system arose in the tenth century. The aim of this study is to evaluate this rural population network with the intention of understanding its evolution throughout the centuries and, especially, its relationship with two successive climatic periods: the Medieval Climatic Optimum and the Little Ice Age. For this purpose, it was essential to cross-check the data obtained from historical records, existing archaeological research, field work and studies on historical climatology, all carried out within this chronological time-frame. Subsequently, all the compiled data was analysed through the Geographic Information Systems (GIS), producing a detailed cartography.

The implementation of notaries public in the kingdoms of León and Castile took place in the mid thirteenth century, thanks to the legal innovations introduced by Alfonso X. Our aim is to contribute to the research of this ambitious project, developed at different rates in the territories of the Iberian Peninsula. For this reason, we will analyse its evolution in the private records of the Cistercian monasteries of the diocese of Lugo – specifically, Santa María de Meira, Santa María de Penamaior and Santa María de Ferreira de Pantón –. These documents were produced by the first known scribes, clerics or laymen with no professional ascription, during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries (c. 1143-1265), until the definitive consolidation of the notarial institution and the public instrument beginning in 1265.

María of Portugal (1313-1357) follows the model of the Castilian and Portuguese queen consort of the fourteenth century emulating her predecessors. The purpose of this research is to analyse the figure of the queen consort using models of comparative analysis of queenship, as well as the opportunities offered by auxiliary sciences such as sigillography. This approach has allowed us to identify the queen’s ability to exercise political power jointly with the king as well as individually. Furthermore, her private sphere has been examined to elucidate the methods she used to exercise her individual power and how it was reflected through various means of representation, such as iconography and chronicles.

The purpose of this work is to thoroughly analyze certain death rites observed by the nobility: the time of death, the possible treatment of the body, enshrouding and wakes, using chronicle testimonies and documentary sources. We have uncovered unpublished data concerning the deaths of individuals belonging to important families of the Castilian aristocracy in the fifteenth and first half of the sixteenth centuries.

The Enríquez de Ribera family was one of the main lineages in the late middle and early modern ages in Seville that managed to build up an outstanding estate made up of villas located on the border with Granada. The adelantados (military governors in a frontier territory) were systematically incorporating land, real estate, and income with the aim of increasing their extensive wealth and diversifying their sources of income, beyond the income received in their jurisdictional lordships or the grants they received for the exercise of the office of the adelantados. Since the end of the fifteenth century, they financed and managed industrial and commercial activities such as the manufacture and export of soap or sugar cane. The most important project they carried out was the construction of the «Hospital de las Cinco Llagas», for whose financing they provided numerous properties and tributes acquired in Seville, turning the hospital into a financial instrument of the lineage and one of the great owners of the property market in Seville.

This study presents an analysis and review of the main biographical characteristics of Sancha Alfonso, daughter of Alfonso IX and Teresa Gil de Soverosa, and sister of the monastery of Santa Eufemia of Cozuelos (Palencia): her filiation, marriage, possessions and death. Furthermore, it sets out the opinions of the main authors on her figure. The methodology used is based on the examination of existing scholarship, documentary sources on the subject, as well the use of geography and sigillography as an auxiliary aid. The objective is to complete the research carried out so far on her and encourage the development of prosopographical studies within the military orders, in particular, that of the Order of Santiago.

This article examines documentation from the Kingdom of León between the ninth and eleventh centuries with the purpose of identifying Caroline script features. Specifically, I will look at the collections of the Cathedral and the monasteries of Sahagún, Eslonza and Otero de las Dueñas in search of instances of the mpn spelling sequence. The considerable breadth of Leonese documentation in the early Middle Ages has made it possible to test the hypothesis of whether the mpn sequence is a Caroline feature or whether it is one shared by both the Visigothic and the Caroline scripts. The analysis of the data indicates that the mpn sequence appears in the Leonese Visigothic documents beginning in the mid eleventh century as a result of the introduction of the Caroline script. Additionally, by reviewing the published collections examined in this article, many transcription errors in the edition of several documents have been pointed out, and several documents, previously considered as tenth-century originals, have been classified as late eleventh-century copies. The results of this research contribute to the description of the substitution process of the Visigothic script by the Caroline script in the Iberian Peninsula.

The changes that took place in the monetary system of Castile since 1268 caused continuous problems for its inhabitants when it came to evaluate the amounts that appeared in their legal documents. In order to solve this problem, a brief text appeared, preserved as an annex to the Fuero Real published in 1781, and although it contained some flaws, it served as a reference for a series of treatises that complemented it with other material. At the same time, it was rewritten with a more elaborate structure until the definitive text contained in the fuero of Huete was reached. In the following pages, we have studied its contents, verified its equivalence with the monetary history known up to now, and we offer a stemma diagram which reflects the markers of its formative development.