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Antón M. PAZOS
A Doctor of History and Doctor of Theology. He is a member of Pontificio Comitato di Scienze Storiche. He was professor at the Universities of Oviedo and Navarra until he joined the CSIC at the Instituto de Historia in Madrid, where he was editor of the journal Hispania Sacra and vice-director of the highly specialised Master’s Degree on the Hispanic world, promoted by the Fundación Carolina along with the Fundación Mapfre. In 2006 he transferred to the IEGPS.
Contact details
Rúa de San Roque, nº 2
15704, Santiago de Compostela
+0034 981540237
a.pazos@csic.es
Research topics.
His research has centred on the contemporary religious history of Spain and America, with projects on the secular clergy, the Church in the 19th and 20th centuries and the Spanish Civil War, such as the publication of the Archivo Gomá. In terms of the religious history of Hispanic America he has dealt in the main with the transition between the 19th and 20th centuries. At the IEGPS he is the coordinator of a line of research into pilgrimage, which has been the driving force behind several international colloquia and he belongs to the CINPAC network of researchers.
Other activities.
He is the president of the CIHEC (the Commission Internationale d'Histoire et d'Études du Christianisme, http://www.cihec.org/), as well as a corresponding academic member of the Ecuadoran and Colombian academies of Ecclesiastical History and of the Instituto Balear de Historia. He is a member of the editorial committees of the journals Hispania Sacra and Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos and of its two book series, Anejos and Monografías. He has supervised thirteen doctoral theses and been involved in nine research projects as the lead researcher. He was editor of the series Compostela International Studies in Pilgrimage History and Culture at Routledge editorial
Recent publications.
Nineteenth-Century European Pilgrimages. A New Golden Age, Routledge, London - New York, 2020, 284 págs.Nineteenth-Century European Pilgrimages. A New Golden Age, Routledge, London - New York, 2020, 284 pp.
Relics, Shrines and Pilgrimages. Sanctity in Europe from Late Antiquity, Routledge, London - New York, 2020, 274 pp.
“Compostela, Rome and the revival of pilgrimages to Santiago”, en Antón M. PAZOS (ed.), Nineteenth-Century European Pilgrimages. A New Golden Age, Routledge, London - New York, 2020, pp. 101-118.
“The course and consequences of the reinventio of the relics of St James in 1879”, en Antón M. PAZOS (ed.), Relics, Shrines and Pilgrimages. Sanctity in Europe from Late Antiquity, Routledge, London - New York, 2020, pp. 109-127.
“España y la Santa Sede en la Gran Guerra: De las propuestas de paz a la Conferencia de París”, en Marc AGOSTINO (a cura di), Santa Sede e Cattolici nel mondo postbelico 1918-1922. Raccolta di Studi nel centenario della conclusione della Prima Guerra Mondiale, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano, 2020, pp. 77-96.
Translating the Relics of St James: From Jerusalem to Compostela, Routledge, London - New York, 2017, 242 pp.
La renovación de las peregrinaciones a Santiago de Compostela en el siglo XIX: entre tradición y modernidad, Santiago de Compostela, Editorial CSIC, 2017 (Monografías de Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos, 16), 216 pp.
“La reinventio de la tumba de Santiago en 1879: objetivos y logros” en Antón M. Pazos (ed.), La renovación de las peregrinaciones a Santiago de Compostela en el siglo XIX: entre tradición y modernidad, Santiago de Compostela, Editorial CSIC, 2017 (Monografías de Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos, 16), pp. 63-86.
“Recent Biographies of 20th-Century Popes. Some Comments”, Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Biographies: Research, Results, and Reading, Kungl, Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien - The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, (Konferenser KVHAA, 94), Stockholm 2017, pp. 166-175.
“Plus que pèlerins. Charité et oeuvres de charité à Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle à la fin du XIXe siècle” en Josette Pontet (dir.) Année Cestac. Société, religión et charité au XIXe siècle, Société des Sciences Lettres et Arts de Bayonne & Ville d’Anglet, Bayonne 2017, pp. 221-235.
