laura.manzano@eui.eu

European University Institute
Department of History and Civilisation
Via Boccaccio 121
50133 Firenze (Fi)
Italy

DATE OF BIRTH: 13 May 1977

EDUCATION

-I am currently writing a PhD dissertation in the HEC department in the IUE-Florence with the title "Juridical and Religious discourses in the Spanish Monarchy and the United Provinces around the Peace of Munster (1648)" under the direction of Martin van Gelderen.
-September 2001: Master's Degree (Titulo de Estudios Avanzados) at the Departamento de Historia Moderna (Early Modern History Department) from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.
-1999-2000 Curso de Adaptacion Pedagogica from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (350 hours) that allows teaching at High School.
-1995-99 Bachelor's Degree in History by the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.
-1995 Certificate to enter the German university Abitur and the Spanish university Selectividad.

RESEARCH GRANTS

-March 2004 onwards, Research Assistant to the "Grotius project" of prof. Martin van Gelderen.
-2002 onwards Holder of a research grant in the IUE-Florence for the completion of a PhD dissertation.
- April-September 2002 Collaboration to the Project "Legislacion Historica Española" under the direction of Miguel Artola.
-1999/2000 and 2000/2001 Holder of a research grant in the Departamento de Historia Moderna (Early Modern History Department) of the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid under the supervision of Pablo Fernandez Albaladejo, including a nine-month stay in the Universiteit van Amsterdam.
-1998/1999 Holder of an introduction to research grant in the Departamento de Historia Moderna of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas under the supervision of Miguel Angel Bunes, helping in the edition process of manuscripts from the XVI century.

 

CONFERENCES

-Presentation "Religious discourses as an obstacle to peace: Religious polemics and the Peace of Münster (1648)" in the Workshop "Religious Violence and Modernity - Bodies, Rituals and Politics: Europe and the World from the Sixteenth Century to Today" (Florence, 11. March 2003).
-Presentation "La Leyenda Negra en la construcción de la identidad de los Países Bajos" in the conference "Definición de identidades en la España moderna: relaciones externas y equilibrios internos (s. XVI-XVIII)" (Florence, 23. May 2003).
-Presentation "Natural Law as a Way of Surmounting Confessional Differences in the Catholic Monarchy and the United Provinces around the Peace of Munster (1648)" in the conference "Inside Out and Outside In: A New Look at the Republic of Letters" (University of Aberdeen, 12.-13. December 2003)
-Presentation "Negotiating Sovereignty: the Peace Treaty of Münster, 1648" in the Workshop "Liberty and Sovereignty In Modern Europe. Historical and Philosophical Controversies" (Florence 27-29 January 2005).

 

PUBLICATIONS

-"La imagen de la Monarquía Hispana en la propaganda europea (s. XVI-XVII)", Espacio, Tiempo y Forma, serie IV, nº 14, Madrid, pp. 146-179.
-"Retratos del enemigo: Imágenes de "España" en las Provincias Unidas", Manuel Herrero y Ana Crespo (Eds.), Actas del Congreso Internacional España y las 17 provincias de los Países Bajos, Universidad de Córdoba, 2002, p. 777-796.
-Introduction and edition of the Diálogos militares, de Diego García de Palacio, Madrid, 2003.
-"Negociacion y conflicto. La Monarquía Católica ante Cataluña y las Provincias Unidas en torno a 1648", in La Monarquía de las Naciones. Patria, nación y naturaleza en la Monarquía de España, Fundación Carlos de Amberes, Madrid, 2004, p. 845-861.
-"Religious discourses as an obstacle to peace: Religious polemics and the Peace of Münster (1648)". Presses Universitaires de Rennes (in press).