IEGPS - Padre Sarmiento Institute of Galician Studies
The Padre Sarmiento Institute of Galician Studies was established in 1943 as a CSIC research center. Since the year 2000 the IEGPS has been a mixed center in collaboration wit the Regional Autonomus Goverment of Galicia [Xunta de Galicia].
What we do
The IEGPS has a single research group: “Social History of Power since the Middle Ages”. Within this group, several lines of research are pursued, each focusing on different thematic areas but interconnected: LORDSHIP, IDENTITY, AND NETWORKS OF POWER; HERITAGE AND CULTURAL LANDSCAPES; and DIGITAL HUMANITIES.
Within this framework, the group studies the phenomenon of pilgrimages, historical architecture, cultural landscapes, and the construction of identity, kinship, and power networks (including genealogical reconstructions and prosopographic analyses, women’s history, and studies of manors, institutions, and tax systems), as well as the contextualization of monumental heritage and the editing of diplomatic, epigraphic, and heraldic sources.
Added to this, as an emerging line of research, is the application of computational linguistics techniques to understand the connection between past and present, as well as the characterization and evaluation of these tools in the field of sentiment analysis based on historical sources.
