Publications
The Compostela Group aims to contribute to the dissemination of knowledge through the creation of a series of bibliographic collections made available to authors and readers. These publications encompass a variety of topics, united by the research efforts of their creators, and are organized into five collections:
- The GCU Highlights Series brings together texts of great significance for the network.
- The Camino de Santiago Series compiles sectoral research that highlights the value of this cultural route.
- The Compostela Prize Series enhances the relevance of award winners by publishing their speeches.
- The European Issues Series includes works related to European politics and realities.
- Finally, the Reports Series gathers the results of projects and similar scientific activities
Our Series
CGU Highlight Series
Camino de Santiago Series
Itinerarios culturales y Camino de Santiago.
Edited by: María Teresa Carballeira Rivera.
Number of pages: 226.
Language: Spanish.
This work invites you to discover cultural itineraries and their most prominent example, the Camino de Santiago. It is a multidisciplinary and systemic study that dissects the various aspects influencing the concept, development, and consolidation of this cultural heritage, which is increasingly relevant in both European and American contexts. Throughout its pages, crucial aspects of cultural itineraries are addressed, such as the evolution of the concept itself and its impact on fields like economics, law, and international relations. Additionally, the book examines the subject matter through the study of the Camino de Santiago. Originally conceived as a Christian pilgrimage route, it evolved over time into a melting pot of cultures, traditions, and legacies that have endured to the present day. The book explores the effect this cultural route has on the preservation of associated heritage, local development, private property, and the physical and environmental surroundings. This book is presented as a valuable and necessary contribution, joining the growing body of publications that delve into cultural itineraries. Join its renowned authors on this journey of scientific reflection that not only connects places but also history and knowledge, demonstrating the importance of preserving this invaluable legacy for future generations.
WS1- Trade Routes and Pilgrimage Trails as a Factor of Integration Sanctuaries and Cult (2004)
Edited by: Jerzy Kmiecinski, Marek Oldezki and Karol E. Natkanski.
Number of pages: 399.
Language: English.
Since ancient times, the spread of religion has been intimately linked with a whole range of other factors, social, cultural and economic. The articles in this publication have resulted from a research project aimed at examining the complex interconnection of these phenomena. Taking examples from Europe, Latin America and Asia, and covering a time span that goes back to antiquity, they offer fascinating insights into processes that have been integrating the world for millennia.
WS2- Femmes et pèlerinages/ Women and Pilgrimages (2007)
Edited by: Juliette Dor and Marie Élisabeth Henneau.
Number of pages: 235.
Languages: French and English.
The development of gender studies in recent years has led to scholars investigating whole areas in which women were traditionally “absent”. One area that has been particularly fruitful in this respect is the past, and the complex roles played by women in earlier societies, particularly their religious life. In this publication, the majority of the contributions focus on the role of women pilgrims in the Middle Ages, with a smaller number dealing with the same phenomenon in the early modern period.
Camino de Santiago y Patrimonio Cultural (2019)
Editado por: Josep Ramón Fuentes i Gasó, María Teresa Carballeira Rivera and Domingo Luís González Lopo (2019)
Número de páginas: 428.
Description: Cultural heritage is gaining more and more scientific and social presence, whether as an expression of the identity of a particular way of perceiving the world or as a wealth that bears witness to the creativity of civilisations over time.
This book offers the reader the opportunity to approach the most current aspects of the legal regime of cultural property from its different components, tangible and intangible, and its diversity. It focuses on cultural itineraries through the Way of St. James, the premier and great European cultural itinerary, to which it dedicates an in-depth analysis in order to then tackle other contemporary artistic manifestations such as graffiti, the management of heritage in the new smart city model or the interaction with other fields such as tourism, museum activity, urban planning or the environment. All of this without forgetting essential management issues such as the application of public procurement rules to the sector, copyright or the international and multidisciplinary approach to the subject.
The scientific solvency of its contents is amply guaranteed by the signature of the renowned national and foreign jurists and experts who participate in the work. Their contributions do not avoid the great challenges and crossroads faced by contemporary cultural heritage, based on the analysis of the most current regulations and jurisprudence. In short, this is essential work for any scholar of the subject.
Patrimonio cultural inmaterial. De los Castells al Camino de Santiago (2021)
Editado por: María Teresa Carballeira Rivera, Miguel Taín Guzmán and Josep Ramón Fuentes i Gasó (2021)
Número de páginas: 926.
Description: This work is the result of the efforts of recognised experts and scientists committed to offering quality work on intangible cultural heritage. It contributes to filling the existing gap in one of the emerging fields of the Spanish cultural scene by means of a multidisciplinary approach, namely legal, historical and anthropological.
Throughout its pages, the reader will be able to approach this new form of expression of the culture of the peoples that reached its maximum splendour with the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage approved in Paris in 2003. Cultural values such as traditions and oral expressions; performing arts; social uses, rituals and festive events; knowledge and uses related to nature and the universe; and traditional craft techniques, are brought together in this book to disseminate knowledge of Spanish cultural assets declared Intangible Heritage of Humanity. All of this without neglecting the analysis of the legal aspects linked to their protection and transmission, together with an overview of other emblematic examples of our culture, such as bullfighting and the Camino de Santiago.
Intangible cultural heritage is an important factor in maintaining cultural diversity in the face of growing globalisation and the ideal environment for the exaltation of collective cultures, given its intrinsic participatory, recreational and communicative nature between individuals and groups. Its great fragility makes it worthy of the effective legal and social protection that this monograph seeks to afford it.
Compostela Prize Series
CP1- Václav Havel as a Dramatist (2002)
Edited by: Jirí Zdenka Pospisilová and Alena Mizerová.
Number of pages: 170.
Language: English.
This publication is the first one of the series related to the Compostela Prize Winners. Václav Havel was awarded the Compostela Prize in 1998 for his contribution as a dramatist. One year later, from the 30th of September to the 3rd of October 1999, an international conference was held at Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic) on his works, and the present book includes the main contributions to this conference.
CP2-Bach 2000: Music between Virgin Forest and Knowledge Society (2003)
Edited by: Jirí Fukac, Alena Mizerová and Vladimir Strakoš
Number of pages: 310.
Laguage: English.
This collection of essays stems from a conference that took place in Regensburg, Germany, in October 2000. Held on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach, it also honoured he famous German musician Helmuth Rilling, the previous year’s recipient of the international prize offered annually by the Compostela Group of Universities. As the conference was conceived as an interdisciplinary examination of Bach´s work and legacy, the contributions from the international group of scholars offer fresh insights covering a range of disciplines and drawing on many different scholarly approaches. Throughout, the concern of the contributors has been to reveal the continually renewed contemporaneity of Bach and his music.
European Issues Series
EI1- The Psychology of the European Monetary Union: A Cross- national Study of Public Opinions towards the Euro (2001)
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Edited by: Anke Müller- Peters, Roland Pepermans, Guido Kiell and Minoo Farhangmher.
Number of pages: 564.
Language: English.
This book was chosen to be the first of the series under the generic title of European Issues due to the importance of the topic for many European countries which were involved in the process of creation of the European Monetary Union, and also for those countries affected directly by this Union.
EI2- Co-operative Education in Europe: A Partnership between Government, Employer, Student and University (2003)
Edited by: Maurits van Rooijen.
Number of pages: 85.
Language: English.
One of the fastest growing areas in higher education in the countries of the European Union is that of work- based or work- integrated learning. Some years ago, the Compostela Group of Universities set up a working group to deal with this question; the present publication draws on their deliberations and conclusions. The nine contributors, all of them academic with long experience in the field of co- op education, trace the current trends in Europe on the basis of the situation in their own countries, and suggest what issues will be of increasing importance in the coming years.
EI3- European Social Protection Systems in Perspective (2004)
Written by: Lucie Paquy.
Number of pages: 146.
Language: English.
One of the most hotly debated issues in Europe at the present time is that of how the continent’s social protection systems should adapt to the pressures of the new millennium. No meaningful discussion of the future, however, can be carried on without a clear understanding of the past and present. This publication aims at providing a better understanding of the social security systems currently in place in Europe by looking at how they have developed, the ways in which they resemble each other and the ways they differ, and the challenges they have been facing in the past decade. Lucie Paquy completed her doctoral desertion in history at the Université Lumiere Lyon 2 (France). Her initial research focussed on French public health policies in the 19th century. Presently, she is carrying out research on the history of business and management in higher education and also on the history of food product risks in the 19th and 20th centuries.
EI4- European Health and Social Welfare Policies (2004)
Edited by: Laurinda Abreu.
Number of pages: 535.
Language: English.
Since the Middle Ages, societies across Europe have been devising ways to promote the social well-being of their people. Three areas that are of fundamental importance in this regard- poor relief, health care and social welfare- from the subject matter of the twenty- six essays in this publication, which were originally delivered as papers at a conference held at the University of Évora, Portugal, in 2002. The essays examine a broad range of issues, ranging in time from the Middle Ages to the present day and covering much of Europe, from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean and Central Europe to the Iberian Peninsula.
EI5- Monitoring Health Status of Vulnerable Groups in Europe: Past and Present (2007)
Edited by: Laurind Abreu and Janos Sandor.
Number of pages: 333.
Language: English.
One of the measures of the civility of any society is the way it treats those at its margins. These may be individuals belonging to racial or ethnic minorities, the disabled, the homeless, children from disadvantaged families, those marked by mental disabilities or suffering from diseases that are regarded with fear or distaste by the majority population. Of particular importance for these individuals and groups are their health status and the kind of health care to which they have access. The papers presented in this volume deal with this issue by offering closely focused examinations of a variety of different groups in a number of countries. Several of the articles are devoted to the health and situation of the Romani communities in various countries. Arguably the most consistently marginalized social groups in Europe, the Roma offer a kind of litmus test of the state of health care in any particular country and of the willingness of its citizens to extend its benefits to the whole populace. These and the articles on other disadvantaged groups in Europe and the USA offer a rich variety of approaches to the issue under examination, one that is both urgent and timeless. This series of papers are delivered from a conference held by the PhoenixTN on the issue of monitoring health status and the position of vulnerable groups in Europe which was organized by the University of Pécs in 2004.
EI6- The First Seven Years of the Euro: Impact on Firms and Consequences for World Business (2007)
Edited by: Jesús Arteaga Ortiz.
Number of pages: 163.
Language: English.
Despite general agreement on the positive effects of the introduction of the Euro, in fact very few analyses of its impact have appeared. Moreover, the complex situation of the euro vis-à-vis the newest member states have seldom been dealt with comprehensively, while the possible “euroization” of particular economies and international sectors has been largely ignored. It was the wish to deal with all of these themes that led to the preparation of this publication, which examines the process of the introduction of the Euro and looks at its subsequent impact at both the microeconomic and the macroeconomic level.
EI7 – Beckett: Écrans de silence/Beckett: Screens of Silence (2008)
Edited by: Irene Gilsenan Nordin y Véronique Simon
Number of pages: 158.
Languages: French and English.
Description: One of the key authors of the second half of the twentieth century, Samuel Beckett presents us with an “oeuvre” rich in interpretative possiblities. This bilingual (French and English) publication, the outcome of a conference held in Karlstad, Sweden, to mark the centenary of Beckett’s birth, focuses in particular on Beckett’s theatre (or the theatrical in Beckett’s work), placing it in the wider European historical, cultural, linguistic and literary contexts.
EI8 – Minorized Languages in Europe: State and Survival (2009)
Editado por: Irene Josep R. Guzman and Joan Verdegal.
Número de páginas: 518.
Languages: English, Spanish, French and others.
Description: With the multilingual phenomenon that is the European Union, minority languages can tend to be overlooked. “Languages of state”, for obvious reasons, take precedence, and the complicated mechanism for ensuring their use at the oficial level almost automatically limit the visiblity and diminish the relevance of the many other languages spoken within the European space.
This publicattion is the work of leading specialists on Europe’s minority languages, twenty-four of which are treated in detail. Each specially written chapter looks at the history, current state and future prospects of one of these languages and examines its distinctive linguistic features. Taken together, the chapters – themselves written in four languages (English, French, Spanish and German) – offer a uniquely broad view of minority languages on the European continent today.
Reports Series
Style Guidelines for Publishing
Guide for the Publications of the Compostela Group of Universities
All authors interested in publishing with the Compostela Group of Universities in any of its collections may submit the original manuscript in digital format, following the style guidelines outlined below. The manuscript will be reviewed and approved by the editorial board.
If you are looking for a publisher, please consider the Publishing Guidelines provided below.
Language
Manuscripts submitted for publication must be written in one of the Group’s official languages: Spanish or English. Optionally, they may also be submitted in Galician, accompanied by a translation into one of the aforementioned languages.
Rights
Publishing the original manuscript implies transferring the publishing rights to the Compostela Group of Universities.
Text
The submission of a manuscript requires a guarantee that it is original, in its final version, and has not been previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere. If this is not the case, it must be clearly stated.
The complete manuscript must be sent to the Secretariat of the Compostela Group, accompanied by a brief summary of the book for its promotion on the Compostela Group’s website.
The submitted manuscript must meet the following requirements:
- The digital format must be editable.
- The content must be structured into chapters, sections, and/or subsections.
- The structure of the publication must include the title, keywords, abstract, complete table of contents, introduction, main body with appropriate headings, and a bibliography or list of materials and documentary sources used.
- Citations and bibliographic references must follow any system accepted within the academic field.
For more information, please contact grupo.compostela@usc.es.
How to Access the Publications
Some of the publications in our collections are freely accessible and can be downloaded directly from the website. For others, if you are interested, please send us an email at grupo.compostela@usc.es.
The Compostela Group aims to contribute to the dissemination of knowledge through the creation of a series of collections.