Carmen Sanz Ayán manages the National History Award with a … – 20minutos.es

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Professor Carmen Sanz Ayán Thursday was awarded the Prize National History of Spain 2014 granting the Ministry of Education for his work The bankers and the crisis of the Spanish monarchy in 1640 , a time in which says the author, “reinvents the monarchy”.

Ayán Carmen Sanz (Madrid, 1961), Professor of Modern History at the Universidad Complutense and member of the Real Academia de la Historia, in his book discusses the influence of financial actors in the political crisis of the reign of Philip IV and his favorite, the Count-Duke of Olivares. An era, says historian, which can “draw lessons for today” and in which the monarchy “reinvented” and “reinserted” in a global world.

No need to analyze the processes of territorial disintegration “as something domestic” One of the lessons of history to present Carmen Sanz noted, is not to analyze the processes of territorial disintegration “as something domestic” as there are international factors that help to see “completely different” causes. The professor argues that “historical discourses are historical constructs” and believes that we must analyze “why historical discourses distorted successful” and others supported the investigations do not.

But that has stressed Carmen Sanz, not mission historians: “Our job is to make good story” “History must know it as it was, precisely, to avoid falling into superficial interpretations,” he pointed out.. This prize, worth 20,000 euros, aims to recognize and encourage the important work of historical study and research on topics related to the history of Spain.

The jury, as reported by the Ministry of Culture has chosen this work “to constitute a thorough investigation into the treasury of the Spanish monarchy in the context of the crisis in 1640, taking up the research had developed Ramón Carande on the bankers of Charles V”.

The play, according to the jury, is a extraordinary diagnosis on economic and social problems of the seventeenth-century Spain , very evocative cultural reflections that the author, much expert in the Spanish Golden Age drama, knows very well. “The main lines of research by historian revolve around the study of the financial networks that operated in Europe during the early modern period, the analysis of the socio-economic aspects of theater Baroque, and political history of the second half of the seventeenth century and early eighteenth.