Fernando Manzano

Fernando Manzano Ledesma has a degree in Geography and History and a PhD from the University of Oviedo in 2006. His doctoral thesis received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award by the University of Oviedo in 2008. He has been teaching in the area of Early Modern History of the Asturian University since 2007. The last years his research has focused on the confraternities and social welfare in Castile (1500-1800), the Cadastre of the Marquis de la Ensenada in Asturias (1749-1756) and the Social History of marriage and kinship in the north and west of Spain from 1700 to 1900.