Ángel Ignacio Aguilar Cuesta
is a lecturer at the International University of Valencia. His main line of research has focused on the analysis and study of geohistorical sources from the Modern Age, particularly the Ensenada Cadastre.
Concepción Camarero Bullón
is Full Professor of Human Geography at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She has devoted her long career to the study of geohistorical sources, in particular the Ensenada Cadastre and the General Planimetry of Madrid (18th century) and the Spanish Cadastre of 19th century.
Ignacio Ezquerra Revilla
is Assistant Professor of Early Modern History at Universidad de Cantabria. His main line of research focuses on the extended royal domestic government and its administrative quality in the Early Modern Age, both in Portugal and in Spain. Author of more than fifty papers at international conferences, and more than a hundred articles and contributions to collective works, as well as three books, including El Consejo Real de Castilla en el espacio cortesano (Siglos XVI–XVIII), Madrid: Polifemo, 2017.
Francisco Fernández Izquierdo
is Scientific Officer at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in the Early Modern History Department, Institute of History, and collaborating professor in the Autonomus University of Madrid. His research topics are nobility, water, natural resources and economics in early modern Spain, and IT applied to historical work.
José Eloy Hortal Muñoz
is Full Professor of Early Modern History at the University Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid. His main research interests are the political history of the Netherlands at the XVIth and XVIIth centuries, the Courts of Brussels and Madrid at both centuries, the royal guards of the Spanish Habsburgs and, lastly, the Royal Geographies. Among his numerous works, we can highlight the last book he has co-edited with Merlijn Hurx, Building the Presence of the Prince. The Institutions Responsible for the Construction and Management of the Buildings of European Courts (14th–17th centuries), Turnhout, Brepols, 2025.
is an associate professor of the History of Law and Institutions at the University of Seville where he obtained his Ph.D. (2013) that was awarded with the prize of best Ph.D. dissertation. He has addressed various research topics within the fields of Law in the Medieval and Early Modern Period. Currently, his two main research lines are juridical and institutional elements of the woodlands devoted to shipbuilding from the 16th to the 19th century, and the history of the Spanish administration in Cuba and Puerto Rico.
Francisco J. Moreno Díaz del Campo
is Associate Professor in the UCLM Faculty of Arts in Ciudad Real. His main field of research is social history, principally in relation with the analysis of the morisco minority in Castile. Nevertheless, issues related to the agrarian history have been one of their object of study, especially the ones connected to water utilizations in the Early Modern period.
Cristina Joanaz de Melo
is a contracted senior researcher at NOVA University of Lisbon (IHC-Lab: in2past) and Invited Professor at the Autónoma University of Lisbon, lecturing on ‘Environmental History’. She is a founding member of the Portuguese Network of Environmental History (REPORTHA 2015) and was awarded her Ph.D. on Hydrological and Forestry Policies in Portugal (and southern Europe) in the 1830s–1880s by the European University Institute (Florence–2010). She is currently working and publishing on natural resources, hunting and forests since the 1990s, her current interests lie in restoring and renewing natural resources and compensating for the human agency ongoing between the 1400s and 1800s across the Iberian Peninsula and naval empires.
Félix Labrador Arroyo
(Ph.D. 2007, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) is Full Professor of Early Modern History at Rey Juan Carlos University. His research focuses on the royal sites in Spain, the administration and materiality in the early modern age. He has published more than 150 articles and contributions to collective works, as well as nine books, such as La casa real en Portugal (1580–1621) (2009), La Casa de Borgoña: la casa del rey de España (2014), La extensión de la corte: los Sitios reales (2017), La configuración de la imagen de la Monarquía Católica. El ceremonial de la capilla real de Manuel Ribeiro (2020) and “Las legumbres del Rey”. Mesa y alimentación en la Corte (siglos XVI–XIX) (2020).
is a researcher in the Department of Geography at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her research interests are focused on the study of non-technical cartography and the integration of geohistorical sources in various geospatial tools.
Raúl Romero-Calcerrada
is a full professor at Rey Juan Carlos University. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Alcalá. His academic career has been shaped by interdisciplinary collaboration, particularly with Forestry and Agricultural Engineers, and by a strong focus on the interactions between humans and nature, as well as pressing environmental issues. His work emphasises the application of innovative techniques to better understand and address these challenges from a landscape and sustainability perspective. His research has resulted in the publication of approximately twenty scientific articles in national and international journals, as well as contributions to books and book chapters.
Koldo Trapaga-Monchet
(Ph.D. 2015, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) is Professor of Early Modern History at Rey Juan Carlos University. His research mainly centres on the environmental history of early modern Portugal, with a special focus on forest management and shipbuilding. He published and coordinated monographs, articles, and book chapters. Among the publications related to this publication are “Revisiting the Narrative of Deforestation in the Central and Southern Mainland Early Modern Portugal as a ‘Ruined Landscape’: The Case of Shipbuilding in Lisbon” (History, 2025), and the coordination of the book (together with Álvaro Aragón-Ruano and Cristina Joanaz de Melo) Roots of Sustainability in the Iberian Empires: Shipbuilding and Forestry, 14th–19th centuries (Routledge, 2023).