Antonio José Díaz Rodríguez, National Prize for the History of Spain.

Antonio José Díaz Rodríguez has been awarded today with the 2021 National History of Spain Prize, given by the Ministry of Culture, and endowed with 20,000 Euros. Rodríguez, a PhD in History from the University of Córdoba, ..

where he is a professor of Modern, Contemporary and American History, receives the award for his work, “El mercado curial. Bulas y negocios entre Roma y el mundo Ibérico en La Edad Moderna.”

The jury highlights that the bookt is "a careful and rigorous investigation with a poetic air that sheds light and brings us closer to a little-studied and sometimes hidden reality." Likewise, it "broadens the field of science and contextualizes the social and political dynamics addressed, contributing to economic and financial history some episodes that arouse the interest of readers, going beyond the purely economic.”

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