Ronald Cueto Ruiz

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Ronald Cueto Ruiz (born 1932 in Cumbria , † September 22, 2006 in Segovia ) was a Spanish-British historian, Romanist and Hispanist .

Life

Cueto was born to Spanish parents in Cumbria, England. He attended Workington Grammar School and studied at St Catharine's College (Cambridge) (graduated in 1954). Then he was a high school teacher in Santander . From 1959 he worked on a dissertation and received his doctorate in 1962 with the Latin Americanist Manuel Ballesteros Gaibrois (1911–2002) at the Complutense University in Madrid.

Cueto went back to England and taught at Bromsgrove School . In 1966 he went to Leeds University and founded the Spanish Department at Trinity and All Saints College. From 1974 he was a lecturer and from 1986 to 1997 a reader in Spanish history.

Works

  • Una biografía inédita de Don Baltasar de Mendoza y Sandoval, obispo de Segovia (1699–1727), in: Estudios Segovianos 13, 1961
  • Los hechizos de Carlos II y el proceso de Fr. Froilán Díaz, confesor real , Madrid 1966
  • Maderuelo, Santa María del Castillo. Historia documentada de una parroquia segoviana 1. Siglo XVIII , Maderuelo 1980
  • Corona hostigada, democracia amenazada. Visto desde Inglaterra , Madrid 1982
  • Historia de la comunidad de Villa y Tierra de Maderuelo , Segovia 1982
  • Panfilos y "cucos". Historia de una polémica segoviana , Madrid 1984
  • Andrés Laguna en un manuscrito de Londres , Segovia 1984
  • Parraces. Historia de una real abadia segoviana , Segovia 1985
  • Quimeras y sueños. Los profetas y la monarquía católica de Felipe IV , Valladolid 1994
  • Souls in anguish. Religion and spirituality in Lorca 's theater , Leeds 1994
  • La comunidad de villa y tierra de Maderuelo , Segovia 1995
  • Segovia en el tunnel del tiempo , Segovia 2002
  • La vida a través de la muerte. Voces segovianas del siglo XVII , Valladolid 2004

literature

  • Convivium. Celebratory essays for Ronald Cueto , ed. by John Joseph Macklin and Margaret A. Rees, Leeds 1997
  • John Macklin, Ronald Cueto (1932-2006), in: Bulletin of Spanish Studies 84, 2007, pp. 931-933

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personal data
SURNAME Cueto Ruiz, Ronald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hispanic-British historian, Romanist and Hispanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Cumbria
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 2006
Place of death Segovia