“Interpellated Histories” brings together a set of works with diverse themes, spatialities, and temporalities produced by researchers at the beginning of their careers. The results are primarily part of ongoing doctoral projects, which, at the time of writing and publishing this work, are in various stages of development. The research is being conducted at six universities in the Iberian Peninsula. We believe the relevance of this work lies in the opportunity to intersect very different research contexts, yet which share the same sense of interpellating history in an innovative way. This novelty is revealed in the questions raised, the theoretical-conceptual positions developed, and the methodologies used.
The chronology covers a long period, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, in the continental and overseas territories of Portugal and Spain.

From a thematic perspective, issues related to material culture, daily life, built heritage, gender, labor, religiosity, conflict, epidemics, and institutionalized powers stand out. Within the scope of the subjects, men from local or national elites are prominent, although women and other ordinary people are considered and problematized within the patriarchal contexts of privilege and distinction in which they circulated. While the problems specific to cities, such as complex institutions and dense power networks, are highlighted, rural history is problematized both in its specificities and in the multiple porosities within urban space.
The sources used are quite diverse: the authors work with visual, oral, documentary (printed and manuscript) sources, and records of material culture. From a typological perspective, they examine legislation, regulations, censuses, judicial proceedings, municipal ordinances, treaties, skeletal remains, institutional admissions, parish records, and oral, notarial, and epistolary sources produced by individuals working in local, regional, state, and overseas institutions of both secular and religious scope.

The chosen methodologies, while primarily qualitative with critical documentary analysis, occasionally include mixed methods and comparative or case studies.

(Introductory Note, p. 7)

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