Conservation and Production of Woodlands and Royal Forests in the Early Modern Iberian Peninsula

Author Biography

Koldo Trapaga-Monchet, Ph.D (2015), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, is Professor of Early Modern History at Rey Juan Carlos University. His research mainly centres on the environmental history of early modern Portugal, with a special focus on forest management and shipbuilding. He published and coordinated monographs, articles, and book chapters. Among his recent publications are “Revisiting the Narrative of Deforestation in the Central and Southern Mainland Early Modern Portugal as a ‘Ruined Landscape’: The Case of Shipbuilding in Lisbon” (History 110: 389, 2025), and the volume Roots of Sustainability in the Iberian Empires: Shipbuilding and Forestry, 14th–19th centuries (together with Álvaro Aragón-Ruano and Cristina Joanaz de Melo, Routledge 2023). Félix Labrador Arroyo, Ph.D. (2007), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, is Full Professor of Early Modern History at Rey Juan Carlos University. His research focuses on the royal sites in Spain, more precisely on their administration and materiality in the early modern age. He has published more than 150 articles and contributions to collective works, as well as nine books, such as La configuración de la imagen de la Monarquía Católica. El ceremonial de la capilla real de Manuel Ribeiro (Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert 2020) and Las legumbres del Rey”. Mesa y alimentación en la Corte (siglos XVI–XIX) (Dykinson 2020).