Feliciano Barrios is professor of the History of Law and Institutions at the University of Castile-La Mancha and a full member of the Real Academia de la Historia. He has focused his research on the history of public administration in the Modern Age, of the noble institutions, and of Spanish-American law. He was assistant curator of the exhibition El mundo que vivió Cervantes (Madrid, 2005) and, in addition to many articles and contributions to collective works, has published Los Reales Consejos: el gobierno central de la Monarquía en los escritores sobre Madrid del siglo XVII (1988).