2002 Summer Institute in the Spanish and Hispanic-American Archival Sciences

Supported by generous grants from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference; the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and U.S. Universities; and Marquette University.

The 2002 Summer Institute will be directed by Consuelo Varela, Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos de Sevilla. The Institute will provide intensive training in the reading and editing of Spanish and Hispanic-American manuscript books and documents from the fourteenth century to the sixteenth century. It will also offer an orientation to the archives, libraries, and manuscript collections available for work in Spanish and Hispanic-American Studies. The course will be conducted in Spanish.

About the Instructor

CONSUELO VARELA, Senior Researcher, Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos de Sevilla, is the editor of the complete works of Christopher Columbus. Among her numerous publications are El viaje de Ruy López de Villalobos a las islas del Poniente: 1542 - 1546 (1983); Documentos colombinos en la Casa de Alba (1987); Cristóbal Colón: Textos y documentos completos. Nuevos documentos (1992);Cristóbal Colón: El hombre y su entorno (1992); Ingleses en España y Portugal 1480 - 1515 (1998); Amerigo Vespucci (1999); and B. de Las Casas, Brevísima Relación de las Indias, edic. C Varela (2000).