Las vitae sanctorum de la Hispania medieval: sus manuscritos y su historia editorial

Ejemplar dedicado a: Hagiografía y archivos de la Iglesia santoral hispano-mozárabe en las Diócesis de España. Actas del XVIII Congreso de la Asociación celebrado en Orense (1ª parte) (9 al 13 de septiembre de 2002).

Fragmento de un epítome del «Liber Glossarum» en un manuscrito de en torno al año 1000

[EN] This article consists of a study (provenance, date of the manuscript, sources of the glossary, etc.) and an edition of the fragment of an epitome of the «Liber Glossarum» which is contained in a ms. about the year 1000 A.D. From the "Spanish symptoms" which one can track in the present copy, the ms. El Escorial L.I.15, from the 16th-17th century, the author infers that his model, now perished, was written in Spain and in wisigothic script about the year 1000. On the other side, on the basis of the copy the author reconstructs the primitive glossary text of the 10th-11th century model in a critical edition accompanied by a critical apparat and sources.

Sobre la serie de "voces animantium" incluida en las «Diferencias» de Isidoro de Sevilla

[ES] Este artículo intenta explicar la relación existente entre la serie de "voces animantium" incluida en las «Diferencias» de Isidoro de Sevilla («Diff.I», 607 = 225) y en los mss. P y M, como adición a ella, y la lista de voces de esta naturaleza contenida en el «Laterculus» de Polemio Silvio y las copias posteriores. Al final el autor incluye en apéndice la edición de algunas de estas listas, todavía inéditas.

Basque legacy in the New World: on the surnames of Latin American presidents

[EN] In this article we explain the etymology of the surnames of Basque origin that some presidents of Latin American countries have or have had in the past. These family names were created in the language called Euskara, in the Basque Country (Europe), and then, when some of the people who bore them emigrated to America, they brought their surnames with them. Most of the family names studied here are either oiconymic or toponymic, but it must be kept in mind that the oiconymic ones are, very often, based on house-nicknames, that is, they are anthroponymic in the first place. As far as possible, we have related the surname, when its origin is oiconymic or toponymic, to its source, i.e. to the house or place where it was created.

International transport costs and the margins of Intra-Latin American maritime trade.

This paper focuses on the analysis of the relationship between maritime trade and transport cost in Latin America. The analysis is based on disaggregated (SITC 5 digit level) trade data for intra Latin maritime trade routes over the period 1999-2004. The research contributes to the literature by disentangling the effects of transport costs on the range of traded goods (extensive margin) and the traded volumes of goods (intensive margin) of international trade in order to test some of the predictions of the trade theories that introduce firm heterogeneity in productivity, as well as fixed costs of exporting. Recent investigations show that spatial frictions (distance) reduce trade mainly by trimming the number of shipments and that most firms ship only to geographically proximate customers, instead of shipping to many destinations in quantities that decrease in distance. Our analyses confirm these findings and show that the opposite pattern is observed for ad-valorem freight rates that reduce aggregate trade values mainly by reducing the volume of imported goods (intensive margin).

Client-ship and Citizenship in Latin America

Taylor, L. (2004). Client-ship and Citizenship in Latin America. Bulletin of Latin American Research. 23(2), pp.213-227. RAE2008