Staff
Rosario Valdés Blanco-Rajoy
Born in A Coruña. Degree in Geography and History from the University of Santiago de Compostela. As a technical expert, she has carried out numerous works focused on archaeology, having directed numerous excavation and prospecting campaigns in the terrestrial and underwater environment, both on her own account as the owner of a specialized company, as well as contracted by various public institutions and private companies. In 2007 she joined the Institute of Galician Studies Padre Sarmiento (CSIC-Xunta de Galicia) as a career civil servant, occupying the position of research assistant in R+D+I.
Contact Information
Rúa de San Roque, nº 2
15704, Santiago de Compostela
+0034 981540231
rosario.valdes@iegps.csic.es
Research topic.
In recent years he has participated in several research projects in public and competitive European, national and regional calls, related to issues of history, heritage and identity, especially on Galician medieval fortresses and pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela.
Other activities.
She is currently part of the team of the project "Neocamiños" (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas - Xunta de Galicia).
As a member of the IEGPS group "Cultures and societies of the Iberian world since the Middle Ages", she received the "Camino de Santiago 2015" award in the research modality, granted by the Xunta de Galicia.
She has been responsible for the secretariat of several colloquia, seminars and scientific meetings of academic scope held at the IEGPS headquarters, highlighting the thirteen Coloquios Internacionales Compostela [Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC - Commission Internationale d'Histoire et d'Études du Christianisme, CIHEC], organized between the years 2008 and 2021.
Recent publications.
“Camino Francés y urbanismo en la Galicia medieval: el caso del antiguo burgo de Triacastela”, Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos, 60, 135 (2022), pp. 109-154.
“Fortalezas de la Ribeira Sacra en el entorno del monasterio de Santo Estevo de Ribas de Sil”. Madrygal. Revista de Estudios Gallegos 23 (2020), pp. 375-399.
“El hospital medieval de Pena Godón, una ventana al pasado de un despoblado olvidado en el Camino Francés a Compostela”. Madrygal. Revista de Estudios Gallegos 19 (2016), pp. 203-216.
“Reseña de Antón M. Pazos (ed), Pilgrims and Pilgrimages as Pilgrimages as Peacemakers in Christianity, Judaism and Islam”, Anuario de Historia de la Iglesia, 23 (2014), pp., 582-583.
“Quotidianos de fronteira”, en Luís Adão da FONSECA. (coord.), Entre Portugal e a Galiza (sécs. XI a XVII). Um olhar peninsular sobre uma região histórica, Porto, Fronteira do Caos Editores, CEPESE, 2014, pp. 279-298.
“La capilla de los Neira de Luaces en la iglesia compostelana de Santa María do Camiño (ss. XVI-XIX)”. Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos, 124 (2011), pp. 149-182.
“La fortaleza de Damil y la casa solar de los Biedma en la Alta Limia (Ourense)”. Castillos de España, 164-165-166 (2011), pp. 33-40.
“Las fortalezas medievales que jalonaban la ruta jacobea entre Santiago y Betanzos”. Actas VII Congreso Internacional de Caminería Hispánica (Madrid-Pastrana-Alcalá de Henares del 26 al 30 de junio del 2006). Manuel Criado de Val (edit.). Madrid, 2008, pp. 1-20. [Editado en soporte digital].
“Inventario de las fortalezas medievales de Galicia. Método de trabajo y avance de resultados (1995-2006)”. Del Documento Escrito a la Evidencia Material. Actas del I Encuentro Compostelano de Arqueología Medieval. (Santiago de Compostela, 22,23 y 24 de marzo de 2006). Mercedes López-Mayán Navarrete, Carlos J. Galbán Malagón (Coords.). Edicións Lóstrego. Santiago de Compostela, 2007, pp. 115-139.
