New PRIVACY guest researcher: José Eloy Hortal Muñoz

José Eloy Hortal Muñoz is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid since 2009. His main research interests are the political history of the Habsburg Netherlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Courts of Brussels and Madrid in both these centuries, the Royal Households of the Spanish Habsburgs and, lastly, the Royal Sites and Geographies. 

He has realized numerous academic visits (both teaching and research) in Belgium, the Netherlands, USA, England, Italy, Portugal, Vatican, France, and Switzerland, and participated in many international conferences in England, Belgium, Italy, France, USA, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Russia, the Netherlands, and Spain. 

His major works include the monographs Las guardas reales de los Austrias hispanos (Madrid, 2013); and (with G. Versteegen) Las ideas políticas y sociales en la Edad Moderna (Madrid, 2016). He has also edited Politics and Piety at the Royal Sites of the Spanish Monarchy in the Seventeenth Century (Turnhout, 2021), and co-edited (with R. Vermeir and D. Raeymaekers) A Constellation of Courts: The Households of Habsburg Europe, 1555-1665 (Louvain, 2014); and (with A. Espíldora García and P.-F. Pirlet), El ceremonial en la Corte de Bruselas del siglo XVII. Los manuscritos de Francisco Alonso Lozano (Brussels, 2018), which was awarded the Henry Pirenne Prize in 2019. 

Email contact: joseeloy.hortal@urjc.es  

Webpage: www.joseeloyhortal.com  

He has been awarded a fellowship for a three-month research stay at PRIVACY (01/06-31/08/2022), by the Salvador de Madariaga program for senior researchers of the Spanish Ministry of Education. 

 We are looking very much forward to collaborating with José Eloy