Research Statement
My main period of research is the early modern history, specially religious changes and their relationships with intellectual, social and geopolitical changes. I have published about catholic moral theology and the transformations of the noble class in the early modern period. I have researched the Dominican Order from a global perspective: its expansion, the management of educational aspects of the Order during its global expansion, the presence and role played by the Orders' bishops in the global catholic expansion, and so on.
I have extensively used methods of the so called Digital Humanities: content analysis, geoanalysis, and data visualizations, among others.
Some Projects in Github
Atlantocracies
Carried out by the Universidad Pablo de Olavide of Seville (Spain), the project focuses on the study of Iberian nobility in Spain and America, challenging the deep-rooted tradition of considering them as separate entities. The fundamental question of whether or not a transatlantic nobility, within the framework of the Hispanic Monarchy, exists is asked.
EMDO: Dominican Order in the Early modern period
The biggest digital platform about a Early modern catholic order worldwide. Using advanced Digital Humanities techniques, I anaylsed very varied aspects of the Dominican Order in its global presence in the early modern world: global presence of the Dominicans, decisions in general chapters, intellectual production, etc.
Global Catholic Missions (Dominican Order)
Using advanced GIS techniques I have analyzed the mobility of catholic missionaries in the Philippines during the early modern period in order to assess their ability to cover vast geographical spaces. This was the basis for the paper 'Missionaries, rivers and inundation. GIS and early modern religious globalization' presented by me at the Digital-History-Tagung 2023.
Dominican bishops as global actors (1400-1700)
Analysis of the presence of bishops of the Dominican Order in the global catholic world. the code presented here refers to a big PostgreSQL database with data about bishops in the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. It was the basis of several presentations and publications. Advanced use of PostgreSQL databases and queries and R visualization techniques.
Other projects in Github
Interface for the database EMD (Early Modern Dominicans)
Graphical interface written in C++ using the Qt library for entering data into a vast relational PostgreSQL database related to the Preachers' Order in the early modern period.