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| Revista de la Universidad de Madrid | |
|---|---|
| Title | Revista de la Universidad de Madrid |
| Language | Spanish |
| Discipline | Multidisciplinary humanities and social sciences |
| Publisher | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| Country | Spain |
| Frequency | Irregular / historical |
| History | 19th–20th centuries (see text) |
Revista de la Universidad de Madrid was a scholarly periodical associated with the Universidad Complutense de Madrid that published articles in the humanities and social sciences, law, philology, history, and philosophy. The journal functioned as a forum linking scholars from Spanish institutions and international intellectual networks, intersecting with debates centered in Madrid, Barcelona, Salamanca, Seville, and Granada. Its pages connected conversations among figures tied to the Real Academia Española, the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, and provincial archives such as the Archivo Histórico Nacional.
The journal emerged amid 19th‑century reforms affecting the Universidad Central de Madrid, interacting with personalities active in the Restoration era, the Institución Libre de Enseñanza, the Ateneo de Madrid, and ministries of Alfonso XII and Alfonso XIII. Contributors involved currents linked to figures like Francisco Giner de los Ríos, Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, and Joaquín Costa, while debates in the periodical reflected controversies that also engaged the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios, the Museo del Prado intellectual milieu, and the Biblioteca Nacional. During the Second Republic and the Civil War the review intersected with networks around Manuel Azaña, José Ortega y Gasset, Ramón Menéndez Pidal, and Gregorio Marañón; later editions navigated Francoist cultural policies and dialogues with the Instituto de Estudios Asturianos, Instituto de Historia, and Centro de Estudios Históricos. Editorial changes tracked reforms at the Universidad Complutense, administrative reorganizations under Adolfo Suárez, and academic reconfigurations that paralleled developments in universities such as the Universidad de Salamanca, Universidad de Barcelona, Universidad de Zaragoza, Universidad de Granada, Universidad de Sevilla, Universidad de Valencia, and Universidad de Alcalá.
The editorial board aggregated scholars from departments historically tied to the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Facultad de Derecho, Facultad de Filología, and Facultad de Ciencias Políticas, and engaged with research agendas promoted by the Real Academia de la Historia and the Real Academia Española. Its scope included critical editions and philological notes referencing medieval authors like Alfonso X, Cervantes studies alongside scholarship on Lope de Vega and Calderón de la Barca, legal history touching on the Ley de Jurisdicciones and the Código Civil, and historiography related to the Reconquista, the Visigothic period, the Habsburg monarchy, the Bourbon reforms, and the Napoleonic occupation. The journal published work on archaeology connected to the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, cinematic criticism intersecting with the Filmoteca Española, and intellectual history that dialogued with European trends represented by figures tied to the Sorbonne, Universität Heidelberg, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Harvard University, and the École des Hautes Études.
Issues appeared under varied periodicities, sometimes annual and sometimes irregular, with formats including monographic numbers and miscellanies; presentation styles reflected standards used by academic journals such as Revista de Filología Española, Anales de la Universidad, Boletín de la Real Academia Española, and Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos. Articles featured critical apparatus with footnotes, Latin texts, transcriptions from archives like Archivo de Indias and Archivo General de Simancas, and primary documents referencing treaties such as the Treaty of Tordesillas and events like the Battle of Trafalgar and the Siege of Zaragoza. Typography and illustration practices mirrored those of the Instituto de Estudios Políticos, the Biblioteca Menéndez Pelayo publications, and collections issued by the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.
Contributors ranged from philologists and historians to jurists and philosophers: José Ortega y Gasset, Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, Américo Castro, Julián Marías, Gregorio Marañón, Menéndez Pidal school affiliates, critical historians linked to Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz, Antonio Cánovas del Castillo’s era commentators, legal scholars following Ángel Ossorio y Gallardo, lexicographers associated with Ramón Menéndez Pidal and the Real Academia Española, and archaeologists with ties to Juan Cabré and Manuel Gómez-Moreno. Specific articles addressed topics such as medieval cantigas, Golden Age theatre studies comparing Lope de Vega and Calderón, constitutional analysis touching on the Constitution of 1876 and the Constitution of 1931, philological editions of Alfonso X’s Cantigas, and archival studies employing documents from the Archivo Histórico Nacional and Archivo de la Corona de Aragón. The periodical also hosted reviews of monographs by publishers like Revista de Occidente, Taurus, Alianza Editorial, and Siglo XXI Editores.
Reception among contemporaneous institutions was mixed: the journal was cited in bibliographies compiled by the Real Academia de la Historia, incorporated in syllabi at Universidad de Salamanca and Universidad de Barcelona, and debated in forums such as the Ateneo de Madrid and the Instituto de Cultura Hispánica. Its impact is traceable through citations in works by Spanish historians like Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz and Fernández Somoano, in legal historiography referencing Francisco Tomás y Valiente, and in literary studies responding to Américo Castro and María Zambrano. International scholars at the Sorbonne, Princeton University, Columbia University, University of Chicago, and the British Academy engaged with its work; libraries at the Biblioteca Nacional de España, the New York Public Library, the British Library, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France hold runs or citations that attest to its circulation. The journal influenced bibliographic projects such as the Índice Histórico Español and informed exhibitions at the Museo del Prado and Archivo General de Indias.
Indices and catalogues list the journal in union catalogues maintained by the Biblioteca Nacional de España, scholarly indices curated by the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, and library holdings at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad de Salamanca, Universidad de Barcelona, Universidad de Granada, Universidad de Sevilla, and international repositories including the Library of Congress and the Biblioteca Nacional de Francia. Digitization efforts overlap with projects at the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes and institutional repositories at the Universidad Complutense, while retrospective bibliographies compiled by the Real Academia de la Historia, Centro de Estudios Históricos, and the Archivo Histórico Nacional facilitate discovery. Researchers consult microfilm and hardcopy holdings in academic libraries such as those of Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Oxford, Cambridge, and the British Library for historical issues and critical essays.
Category:Spanish academic journals Category:Publications of the Complutense University of Madrid