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The aim of this paper is to offer a first approach to the trips and journeys - both daily and exceptional -, in which medieval noblewomen took part. Particularly, we analyse their motivations for traveling to different places within the kingdom of Galicia and abroad. The main causes to be considered include access to marriage, joining a monastery or the wish to pilgrim. Apart from this, we must take into account their trips throughout the different places that constituted their vast and scattered land, owned by them and their families, as well as the trips meant for leisure, for attending ceremonies or for fleeing from complicated situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we reconstruct little-know aspects about the biography of the Spanish medievalist Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz (1893-1984). At the same time, we analyse the personal causes and the historical circumstances that led one of the most important Spanish historians from the first half of the 20th century to emigrate to Buenos Aires, and in what way that experience resulted in the foundation of the Cuadernos de Historia de España. We highlight the intellectual and historiographic significance of this foundation for Hispanic medievalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]