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Añada — 2026-04-08

Avelino Fierro (2023). La belleza del caminar. León: Eolas (138 pp.).

Juan Ignacio Torres Montesinos — 2026-04-08

The high Street, it’s Dynamics and Tensions in the expansion Areas of medium-sized Spanish Cities

Sergio Tomé Fernández — 2026-04-08

It is an integrated study of the current situation, urban problems and recent changes in the high street of five representative Spanish cities, with between 105 and 258 000 inhabitants in 2024. This central axis dominates the expansion area that was initially formed between the 1850 ́s and 1920 ́s. It ́s continuous adaptation over time, in accordance with the role it plays, is very interesting and makes it a privileged observatory from the perspective of sustainable urban development. The research uses a mixed geographical methodology based on field work, data from official organizations (statistics, urban documentation), information from digital platforms, bibliography and newspaper. The specific objectives of comparative analysis are the management of cultural heritage, real estate activity, economic reconversion, environmental advances and sociodemographic aspects. The results confirm the uneven scope of the improvements experienced, point out the controversial effects of the neoliberal model and identify the factors that explain the differences between localities.

Economy and Society in Post-War León (1939-1949)

Pedro Víctor Fernández — 2026-04-08

The Spain of scarcity was established in León at the end of the Civil War, with ration cards being established in 1939 that distributed the intervened products and encouraged the development of the black market (black market). The all-powerful Supply and Transportation Commission directed those hardships, setting official prices and perpetuating dryland cereal agriculture that very slowly introduced other more profitable products such as beets. León was part of Spain that produced flour and meat, leaving its population with hardly any goods of their own in the deliveries. The black-market years (1939-1952) marked the profile of a province with a strong rural exodus, poverty wages, emigration and coal mining that occupied part of the surplus labour in the countryside.

Nas solombras de los nuesos vaḷḷes.

Juan Ignacio Torres Montesinos — 2026-04-08

This paper analyses the poems included in the book Nas Solombras de los Nuesos Vaḷḷes by Silvia Aller González, a writer from León. The book was published in 2019 in pachuezu, a variety of Asturian-Leonese. A likely translation of the title is In the Shadows of Our Valleys. The lyrical subject is a speaking self whose cartography extends across the northwest of the province of León, through the valleys of Vabia, Ḷḷaciana, Ḷḷuna and Oumaña. The language is a lyrical fact describing the passing of time. Such a chronology is marked by the seasons in these four valleys in León. The poems referred to fall are predominant; this is the season anticipating shadows in the valleys. Linked to wintertime, shadows conform a space covering the poet’s described livings. She tries to keep them unforgotten through memory and remembrance. Silvia Aller González joins to poets versifying the landscape in the territories of León. So, this analysis deals with the function of the language to give value and consolidate the literary works in pachuezu .

A Legal History of the Privilegio Grande of Valderas (León) from the 14th to the 20th Century

Rafael Maldonado de Guevara Delgado — 2026-04-08

The Gran Privilegio of Valderas was a sweeping tax and service concession granted to the residents of the town of Valderas
in León for their loyalty to King John I of Castile during John of Gaunt's crusade against the Castilian throne, which resulted in the town being pillaged and burned in 1387, through a series of charters issued between that year and 1390. The grant not only applied equally to male and female descendants but also exempted Jews and included an extraordinary waiver of alcabalas (excise duties), though it did not confer the status of hidalguía (lower nobility). This study dissects the evolution of the legal nature of the privilege and the numerous instances confirming it, from its origins as a personal/family right—albeit in multiple forms and linked to the local community—through its transformation into a territorial exemption in favour of the town from the late 15th century onward, to its final documented effects in the 19th and 20th centuries in the form of compensation due to herederitary rights (carga de justicia). Furthermore, it should be noted that the distinction enjoyed by Valderas was the origin of a range of tax immunity privileges applicable to both sexes known as utriusque sexus, the most extensive of its kind known to date, established through successive transfers of the rights to other beneficiaries during the second half of the 15th century in Simancas, the surrounding area of Valderas, Toro, and Zamora.

The Grotesques in Juan de Juni’s School

Irene del Canto Mínguez — 2026-04-08

A prominent feature of the altarpieces created by the sculptor Juan de Juni and his school in the province of León, in the
towns located on the banks of the Esla and Cea rivers, connecting with his interventions in the province of Valladolid around
the 1530s and 1580s, continuing into the 17th century, were the grotesques. In these, through repeated motifs, their members encapsulated meanings drawn from Counter-Reformation Christian theology, combined with others that challenged this thinking, drawing on mythology, Hermeticism, Kabbalah, and Crypto-Judaism, composing coded messages that would be unified through Neoplatonic philosophy and its incorporation into Hispanic humanism. These compositions not only demonstrated the erudition of their artists or their clients, but also shed light on the meaning of the altarpieces, the sources used by the school (finding similarities with repertoires such as Polifilo), the origin, travels, inspiration, and references of its members (mixing French sculpture styles with northern Italian programs), as well as possible occult affiliations
(such as their predilection for Jewish Kabbalistic art, persecuted by the religious orthodoxy of the time). Likewise, their quality contributed to revaluing these altarpieces, which had been subjected to historical oblivion due to their location in uncrowded areas or at risk of depopulation.

The Episcopate of León under Don Juan del Campo (d. 1344)

Pablo Ordás Díaz — 2026-04-08

This study explores the trajectory of Don Juan del Campo, an eminent ecclesiastical figure renowned for his diplomatic career
and hierarchical ascent. A native of a distinguished bourgeois family from Compostela, Del Campo acted as the patron of the
convent of Santa María de Belvís in Santiago; however, his principal historical significance resides in his politico-ecclesiastical
endeavors. His progressive career encompassed appointments as Archdeacon of Lugo and Chief Notary of Andalusia (1326), subsequently ascending to the episcopal sees of Cuenca (1327–1328), Oviedo (1328–1332), and ultimately León (1332–1344). Simultaneously, he undertook vital diplomatic missions, including an embassy to the papal court in Avignon and military negotiations with Don Juan Manuel concerning the war of Granada. During his episcopate in León, he notably sought to consolidate the bonds between his diocese and the Castilian-Leonese crown by instituting specific processions and prayers in honor of Alfonso XI. Furthermore, Don Juan del Campo enacted a systematic reform of the Leonese cathedral chapter through a series of constitutions governing liturgical attendance, clerical behavior, economic management, and ecclesiastical discipline. These reforms addressed enduring issues, such as clerical absenteeism and concubinage, which had persisted since the thirteenth century.

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