IberLAND. Beyond Property: Law and Land in the Iberian World, 1510–1850

IberLAND is a five-year research project funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant and hosted at Leibniz University Hannover (Germany). It explores the history of land tenure in a long-term and global perspective by focusing on the territories of the former Portuguese and Spanish empires in what has recently been labelled the Iberian world.

Latest news

The first book of the project IberLAND has been published by Brill: 'Ownership Regimes in the Iberian World (1500-1850)', edited by Manuel Bastias Saavedra.
From January 3–6, 2025, the IberLAND research team participated in the American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting in New York City.
IberLAND’s post-doc researcher Roger Lee de Jesus participated in the workshop “Language Registers and Communication Strategies as Reflected in Premodern South Asian Inscriptions”, at the Institute for Asian and African Studies of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, on 29 November 2024.
From November 18–19, 2023, the IberLAND project organized the workshop Vinculação e Herança: A Dinâmica dos Morgadios e Capelas em Novos Contextos Geográficos, at Leibnizhaus (Hannover), organized by Edson Edy S.C. de Brito.

Latest events

04/04/2025 12:00 am
04/04/2025 2:00 pm
The IberLAND project is pleased to announce the presentation of the new book edited by Manuel Bastias Saavedra - Ownership Regimes in the Iberian World (1500-1850). The Normative Role of Kinship and Community, published by Brill, that will take place at the El Colegio de Mexico, on April 4th.
03/04/2025 10:00 am
04/04/2025 12:00 am
The workshop “Creando derechos sobre la tierra en los mundos ibéricos” will be held from April 3 to 4, 2025, at El Colegio de México (Mexico), co-organized by the IberLAND project and the Centro de Estudios Históricos of El Colegio de México.
31/03/2025 10:00 am
01/04/2025 6:00 pm
The IberLAND project is pleased to announce the upcoming workshop, “Normatividades indígenas en torno a la tierra en la Nueva España, siglos XVI-XIX,” taking place from March 31th to April 1st, 2025, at the Unidad de Extensión Universitaria de la UNAM en Oaxaca (Mexico), co-organized with the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
11/12/2024 9:00 am
12/12/2024 12:30 am
On December 11th and 12th, 2024 the workshop for doctoral students Tierra y usos de la tierra: convergencias entre la historia rural y la historia ambiental de la tierra will take place at the Leibnizhaus - Hannover.
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