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I study early modern Europe and the history of drugs & alcohol at the University of Kentucky. I post about new scholarship on early modern Spain at emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com

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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 22h
Submit: ASPHS Best First Article (last three years) emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/c...
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Call for Submissions: ASPHS Best First Article Prize (3-Year Window)
On a three-year rotation, the Association offers a prize for the best dissertation, the best early career article, and best first book. The 2027 prize will go to the best early career article or bo…
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king's co-op boo store 👻 @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
a nobel prize is cool i guess but Anne Carson also received a Sappho finger puppet from yours truly and just look at that smile
anne carson with a Sappho finger puppet next to a bearded bookseller
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CLAH @clahistorians.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Congratulations to Ernesto Mercado-Montero on winning the James Alexander Robertson Prize for his article, "Indigenous Raiding, Captive Taking, and the Politics of Maritime Violence in the Long Sixteenth-Century Lesser Antilles" (@hahr21.bsky.social). read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article...
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Indigenous Raiding, Captive Taking, and the Politics of Maritime Violence in the Long Sixteenth-Century Lesser Antilles
Abstract. At the core of this piece lies an examination of how Indigenous people forged a system of raiding, captive taking, sea marauding, and trade that became instrumental in the exertion of politi...
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New article by @why-winter.bsky.social explores how the Spanish government positions shipwreck treasure as patrimony, hiding the colonial processes of extraction that produced them emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/10/06/w...
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Winter, “Imperial Nostalgia as Patrimony,” CSSH, July 2026
Yves Winter, “Imperial Nostalgia as Patrimony: Shipwrecks and Treasures in the Colonial Museum,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 68.3 (2026).
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez describes how Spain tried to shape New Granada into a coherent whole emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/n...
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New Book: Muñoz-Arbeláez, The New Kingdom of Granada
Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez, The New Kingdom of Granada: The Making and Unmaking of Spain’s Atlantic Empire (Duke, 2025).
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dale Shuger uncovers a murder in Santo Domingo aimed at covering up homosexuality and sexual abuse in a Franciscan convent there emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/s...
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Shuger, “Sex, Lies, & Archives,” SCJ Summer 2026
Dale Shuger, “Sex, Lies, and Archives: A Case from Colonial Santo Domingo,” The Sixteenth Century Journal 57.3 (2026).
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The time-is-a-flat-circle of life
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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Call for Papers! Conference on Black Spain 👇🏾
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
U Florida is advertising a tt assistant professorship in European history - open chronology but preference for "interregional, transregional, Mediterranean, and global contexts," which seems promising for early modern Iberian historians emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/09/25/t...
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TT Asst Prof Ad at University of Florida
The Department of History at the University of Florida, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is accepting applications for a full-time (1.0 FTE), nine-month, tenure-accruing appointment at the ran…
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jane Tar examines the visits of English friars to Spanish convents and their importance for information and material exchange throughout Catholic Europe emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/t...
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Tar, “English Friars Meet Spanish Nuns,” SCJ, Summer 2026
Jane Tar, “English Friars Meet Spanish Nuns: Francis Bell’s Remarkable Relation of their Exchanges in 1633,” The Sixteenth Century Journal 57.2 (2026).
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Benedetta Chizzolini & Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio argue that examining the medical examination of enslaved people in the Mediterranean demonstrate that Med and Atlantic World slavery were not so different emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/09/23/c...
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Chizzolini & Gadebusch Bondio, “Medical Examination of Enslaved Persons through the East & West Mediterranean,” SHM 39.3, Aug 2026
Benedetta Chizzolini and Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio, “The Medical Examination of Enslaved Persons through the East and West Mediterranean between the Fifteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,&#82…
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Euan Huey @euan-huey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm really happy to share that my article is now out in the Journal of Early Modern History and is open access!
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Héctor Linares traces the advance of a Black man from slavery to knighthood, and Teresa Soley describes the impact of contact with Africa on Portuguese sculpture in the latest RQ emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/09/22/s...
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Soley & Linares in the Fall 2026 RQ
Renaissance Quarterly 79.2 (2026) has some articles for us: Teresa Soley, “Visualizing Africa in Iberian Stone: The Monument to Diogo de Azambuja.” Héctor Linares, “Black Knightho…
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Penn is advertising for an endowed chair, associate or full professor, in Jewish Studies emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/09/21/j...
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Job Ad: Associate or Professor, Jewish Studies, Penn
The School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for the Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt Professorship in Jewish Studies, at the rank of tenured Associate …
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Teaching is, primarily, about relationships
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ingrid Rowland reviews "The Female Perspective" at @museodelprado.es in the @nybooks.com emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/09/15/r...
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Rowland, “Cherchez les Femmes,” NYRB, Sept 24, 2026
Ingrid D. Rowland’s “Cherchez les Femmes” reviews “The Female Perspective” touring series curated by Noelia García Pérez in the New York Review of Books, Sept. 24, 202…
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Brown is hiring a TT asst prof in art & architecture, early modern Europe, but esp wanting "Europe's relationship and connections with the wider world" emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/09/14/j...
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Job Opening: TT Early Modern Art & Architecture, Europe & the World, Brown
Brown University – Assistant Professor of Early Modern European Art and Architectural History in the World Brown University Department of the History of Art and Architecture Rhode Island, Uni…
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Exhibition coming at the Hispanic Museum in NYC on the mantilla and Spanish fashion, dating back to the early modern period emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/e...
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Exhibition: “Mantilla: Fashion Unveiled,” Hispanic Museum & Library, Nov 20, 2026-March 28, 2027
Mantilla: Fashion Unveiled This fall, the Hispanic Society will present a major exhibition exploring the history and significance of the mantilla in Spanish culture. The mantilla, a lace veil tradi…
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New job in med/early modern Mediterranean history, at @holy-cross.bsky.social - tenure track assistant professor emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/09/10/j...
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Job Opening: Holy Cross, TT Asst Prof in Mediterranean History
The College of the Holy Cross – Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in History of the Mediterranean World H-Net Job Guide•08/14/2026Job The College of the Holy Cross Department of History Massac…
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Reviews of the new Zurbarán exhibition in the @lrb.co.uk & TLS emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/r...
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Reviews of the Zurbarán Exhibition
Charlene Villaseñor Black, “Reaching across Worlds: The Transcendent in the Earthly,” Times Literary Supplement 6408 (June 28, 2026). Nicola Jennings, “Zurbarán in Seville,”…
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Terry-Roisin explores the similarities between Jesuit notions of spiritual nobility and secular ideas of nobility emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/t...
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Terry-Roisin, “Jesuit Notions of Nobility,” eHumanista 60, 2026
Elizabeth Terry-Roisin, “Jesuit Notions of Nobility: Chivalry Culture in the Early Modern World,” eHumanista: Journal of Iberian Studies 60 (2026).
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Annemarie Jordan Gschwend publishes a new book tracing the history of a giant pearl from its discovery in Panama through the 20th century emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/09/07/n...
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New Book: Jordan Gschwend, La Peregrina
Annemarie Jordan Gschwend, La Peregrina: An Extraordinary Renaissance Pearl (Paul Holberton, 2026).
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I loved this so much as a kid! (Still do!)
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
From the current issue: "Making sugar out of opium: A narco-plantation regime in early modern Southeast Asia" by Guanmian Xu (Peking University) and Shohei Okubo (Ryukoku University) doi.org/10.1093/past...
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Making sugar out of opium: A narco-plantation regime in early modern Southeast Asia*
Abstract. In the early modern period, while slavery became firmly entrenched in the Atlantic’s sugar economies, Southeast Asia witnessed the rise of distin
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
New book by Elizabeth Terry-Roisin on how an elite Muslim family managed to stay elite after 1492, stayed on in Spain even after the expulsion of the Moriscos in 1609, and then shifted their affairs to Italy emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/08/24/n...
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New Book: Terry-Roisin, Morisco Knights in Renaissance Spain
Elizabeth Terry-Roisin, Morisco Knights in Renaissance Spain: The Granada Venegas Family in History and Memory (Manchester UP, 2026).
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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Seems almost unreal that this is about to be available. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/siege-of-...
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The Siege of Breda, 1624-25
Expertly introduced and contextualised by Paul Arblaster, this book presents Herman Hugo's The Siege of Breda (1626). Hugo's text is a classic of Latin Baroque…
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Book to accompany the Zubaran exhibition, produced by @rebeccajlong.bsky.social and others, is out with Yale UP emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/08/21/n...
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New Book: Zurbaran (Exhibition Book)
Zurbaran, Francesca Whitlum-Cooper, Daniel Sobrino Ralston, Imogen Tedbury, and Rebecca J. Long, eds (Yale, 2026). A book to accompany the exhibition of his works at the National Gallery, the Louvr…
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Dr Laura Fernández-González @laurafg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Lovely to see that the roundtable article that I edited for the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians entitled, 'Race and the Built Environment in the Iberian World, ca. 1400-1800', have been made open access. #historians doi.org/10.1525/jsah...
Screenshot of the roundtable article which can be accessed here: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2024.83.3.268
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Noel Blanco Mourelle @mourelle.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
📢📢📢 We are hiring! 📢📢📢 The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at UChicago invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Modern Iberian Studies, with an expected start date of July 1, 2027, or as soon as possible thereafter. EOE/Vet/Disability. 1/2
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Blockbuster Zurbarán exhibition, now at the @nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social, soon at the @museelouvre.bsky.social, then at the @artinstitutechi.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/e...
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Exhibition: Zurbarán, London/Paris/Chicago, May 26-June 27
Zurbarán, The National Gallery, London, until August 23, 2026 Musée du Louvre, Paris, October 7, 2026–January 25, 2027 Art Institute of Chicago, February 28–June 20, 2027
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
@maryknewman.bsky.social on gender and sight and Cardenas Bunsen on hunger and poverty in the Hispanic Review emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/08/13/a...
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Articles in the Hispanic Review, Summer 2026
There are two articles for us in the latest Hispanic Review 94.3 (2026): Mary Katherine Newman, “Tuerto Masculinity and Feminine Foresight: Gender and Sight in Ercilla’s La Araucana.&#8…
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Yeah, the real reason he left academia was that he had a position at the Atlantic lined up. I like my job, mostly, but I too would leave academia if one of the most prestigious magazines in the US offered me a job!
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
As others like @mwarsh.bsky.social have pointed out, there's a job ad for history of early modern Iberian empires at Hong Kong University (tenure-track) emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/j...
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Job Opening: Global Iberian Empires at Hong Kong University
Professor/Associate Professor on tenure terms or tenure-track Assistant Professor in Global Iberian Empires Apply now Ref.: 536969Work type: Full-timeDepartment: School of Humanities (05200)Categor…
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Molly Warsh @mwarsh.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Iberianists, job alert! Hong Kong University’s History Department is hiring a specialist in early modern global Iberian Empires. Check it out below. #earlymodern #iberianists #globalhistory #skystorians
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
New book explores Philip IV's diplomacy with Scandinavia emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/n...
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New Book: Corredera Nilsson, Diplomacy & the Resilience of the Spanish Monarchy
Enrique J. Corredera Nilsson, Diplomacy and the Resilience of the Spanish Monarchy: The Missions of Bernardino de Rebolledo and Antonio Pimentel in Denmark and Sweden, 1648-1660 (Routledge, 2027).
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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 07/08/2026
🎨📣 CALL FOR PAPERS — CAA 2027 Painted Statuary and Statue Paintings in the Global Iberian World (1400–1800) 🗓 February 3–6, 2027 📍 New York 🔗 siga.spainculture.us/projects/sig... (1/4)
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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 24/07/2026
🚨 Opportunity for emerging curators! The Clark Art Institute is accepting applications for the Lunde Fellow, a two-year fellowship in early modern European painting and sculpture beginning in September 2026. (1/4)
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️
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AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London
The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
There's a new edition/translation of Catalina de Erauso, out from Penguin Random House emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/07/24/n...
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New Edition & Translation: Lieutenant Nun
Catalina de Erauso, Lieutenant Nun: The True Story of a Cross-Dressing Transatlantic Adventurer Who Escaped from a Spanish Convent in 1599 and Lived As a Man, trans. Michele Stepto and Gabriel Step…
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Debating the role of the Pacific in the Iberian Empires, the role of Iberia in the Pacific, and where this all fits in with Latin America emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/07/22/t...
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“The Prospect of Iberian Asia” in the CLAR 35.1
There are articles for us in the Colonial Latin American Review 35.1 (2026), including a special section entitled, “The Prospect of Iberan Asia: A Conversation.” First: Richard P. Ibarr…
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Felipe Souza Melo argues that the Industrial Revolution could not have started without Brazilian cotton and Portuguese merchants emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/n...
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New Book: Souza Melo, The Raw Cotton Trade
Felipe Souza Melo, The Raw Cotton Trade: Brazil, Portugal, and Europe during the Industrial Revolution (Brill, 2026).
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
New book by Daniel Allemann traces the development of law, rights, and political power in the wake of the Iberian Atlantic slave trade emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/n...
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New Book: Allemann, Empires of Slavery
Daniel Allemann, Empires of Slavery: Rights and Power in the Early Modern Iberian World (Brill, 2026).
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
“Urgent Self Care”
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A new edited collection explores forest management in early modern Iberia emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/07/17/n...
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New Book: Conservation & Production of Forests in the Early Modern Iberian Peninsula, Trapaga-Monchet & Labrador Arroyo, eds
Conservation and Production of Woodlands and Royal Forests in the Early Modern Iberian Peninsula, Koldo Trapaga-Monchet and Félix Labrador Arroyo, eds (Brill, 2026). Contributions by Ignacio Ezquer…
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Big new edited collection on the Asiento emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/07/16/n...
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New Book: The Asiento System & the Transatlantic Trade, Herrero Sánchez, Orozco Cruz, & Cardim, eds
The Asiento System and the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans (circa 1580-1750), Manuel Herrero Sánchez, Jonatán Orozco Cruz, and Pedro Cardim, eds (Brill, 2026). Featuring chapters by Miguel…
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
New book exploring the reception of Cisneros's neo-Mozarabic rite outside of Spain emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/07/15/n...
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New Book: Boynton, Liturgy of Empire
Susan Boynton, Liturgy of Empire: Reading the Mozarabic Rite in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800 (Brill, 2026).
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A new book that argues that the Portuguese overseas administration was not so decentralized as we've thought emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/07/13/n...
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New Book: Dantas da Cruz, Politics & Military Administration in the Portuguese Atlantic World
Miguel Dantas da Cruz, Politics and Military Administration in the Portuguese Atlantic World (Brill, 2026).
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
There are chapters for us in a new book about polyglot writing and translating, including one by @mibarizt.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/07/10/b...
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Book Chapters: Polyglot Texts & Translations in Early Modern Europe
Polyglot Texts and Translations in Early Modern Europe, Adrian Izquierdo, ed (Brill, 2025): Ch. 5, “Emotional Sounds: Arabic Words in Castilian Aljamiado Texts,” Álvaro Garrote Pascual.…
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Hispanic American Historical Review @hahr21.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
HAHR author Rebecca Earle tells the transimperial history of the Santiago Apostol and its 1792 capture en route from Lima. youtu.be/Kvg0jw89Jjo?...
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RHS Prothero Lecture 2026: Professor Rebecca Earle on 'The Last Voyage of the Santiago'
YouTube video by Royal Historical Society
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Looks like "secret" to me
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