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Historical memory has become a really relevant topic in Spanish media and politics, particularly since the adoption in the Congress of Deputies of the law 52 of 2007, "by which rights are recognized and extended and there are measures established to benefit those who suffered persecution or violence during the civil war and dictatorship. " In this study we reflect on how the media propose a public debate on Francoism and the Spanish transition. We used 32 focus groups and analyzed how the media historization of the dictatorship and its socio-political legacy is assimilated in the social discourses of the audience. That is how we examined the mediated memory, the one that is built on the collective process in which historical events are negotiated. We also found empirically eight types of ideal memories in Spain, those whose memories are influenced by the sociopolitical environment, the generation and the degree of politicization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the influence of Medieval Spanish monarch Alfonso X in the development and adoption of legislation and laws in the Cadiz Cortes and the Spanish Constitution during the 18th and early 19th centuries. The author comments on the political aspects as well as the influence of Medieval laws on the actions of the Cadiz Cortes and the laws of the Spanish Constitution. An analysis is also provided for the debate between continuity and reform of the laws influenced by the Medieval era.

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This article focuses on several approaches which seem to perpetuate fundamentals about cultural studies, particularly those executed in the field of Hispanic manifestations. She cites that the characteristic refusal of cultural studies to take a certain appearance has generated several forms of thought including new historicism, micro-history, feminism and marxism. She asserts that Spanish cultural studies have never experienced a slow birth or development, nor have they lacked interdisciplinary.

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Focuses on the historicity and literariness of Spanish American Colonial texts. Contention of the author that the classification of colonial historical narrative as literature is problematic because formal literary standards are considered absolute; Transformation of the concept of literature, idea of history, and the historiographical concept of truth from the colonial period to the present; Interpretation of Renaissance historians that history is a tool to interpret Christian principles and concepts; Effects of the transformation of the historiographical concept of truth; Difficulties in the formal analysis and the generic classification of colonial texts.