Spain

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Dr Federica Gigante examining the Verona astrolabe

Astrolabe reveals Islamic–Jewish scientific exchange

04 Mar 2024

The identification of an eleventh-century Islamic astrolabe bearing both Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions makes it one of the oldest examples ever...

Spanish butterflies better at regulating their body temperature than their British cousins

09 Jan 2024

Butterfly populations in northern Spain are better than their UK counterparts at regulating their body temperature, but rising global temperatures...

A deserted Grand Via, in the heart of Madrid, a week after the lockdown started.

Economic activity has halved during Spain’s coronavirus lockdown, study suggests

15 Apr 2020

Almost one and a half billion spending transactions reveal 'real-time' reactions of consumers in a major western economy during the nation’s peak...

Music and the battle for Granada's past

13 Feb 2019

Concerns over immigration and the rise of the far-right in Spain are fuelling tensions at one of its most important festivals, the Día de la Toma in...

The man who tried to read all the books in the world

26 Oct 2017

One man’s quest to create a library of everything, 500 years before Google Books was conceived, foreshadowed the challenges of ‘big data’ and our...

The Capitulation of Granada by Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz 1882: Boabdil surrenders to Ferdinand and Isabella, Credit: None

The last Muslim King in Spain

18 May 2017

The history, myths and legends surrounding the last Muslim ruler in Spain – whose surrender ended seven centuries of Islam at the heart of Western...

Flamenco: what happens when a grassroots musical genre becomes a marker of culture

18 Aug 2016

What happens when a musical genre becomes an identifier for a region? In his book Flamenco, Regionalism and Musical Heritage in Southern Spain ...

Pliegos sueltos Diego Corrientes (S743.1.c.8.2)

Read all about it!

08 Mar 2011

A new study of wrongdoing and its cultures in Spain from 1800 to 1936 will explore the fascination of popular versions of crime and other...

Cultural heritage after conflict

01 May 2010

A collaborative study led by Cambridge is examining the impact on society of the destruction and reconstruction of cultural heritage.

Outstanding scholars awarded

01 May 2008

Two early-career academics in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages have been recognised by the Philip Leverhulme Prize.

Cloister of Santa Maria la Real in Najera

‘Sex, scandal and sermon’ in medieval Spain

08 Feb 2008

A new study of the 14th-century narrative poem Libro de Buen Amor explores how its earthy tales of failed love are shaped by humour.

Members of the European Legal Development Project

Finding fault

01 Feb 2008

A multicentre project led by the Faculty of Law has reached its conclusion, having studied over a century's worth of European legal changes relating...