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Scott K Taylor
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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 https://emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/
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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 12d
CFP: PSHAM in Chicago next March 7! emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/c...
CFP: PSHAM, Chicago, March 7, 2026
The Premodern Spanish History Association of the Midwest (PSHAM) is taking place in Chicago this year, graciously hosted by Danny Wasserman-Soler of Lumen Christi. We’ll be meeting on March 7…
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Another article by @hectorlinares.bsky.social - this one on an escaped enslaved man from Sierra Leone who managed, via a royal petition, to get his former enslaver to pay him a pension in recognition of his military service emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/l...
Linares, “Seeking Freedom & Honor through Royal Service in 16th-Cent Panama,” Americas Oct 2024
Héctor Linares, “Antón Zape, “Un Negro de mucho Precio”: Seeking freedom and honor through royal service in sixteenth-century Panama,” The Americas 81.4 (2024).
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November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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@hectorlinares.bsky.social examines petitions from the Inca royal family to the Council of the Indies, examining their attempts to preserve their family's standing in the new colonial order emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/l...
Linares, “An Inca Girl’s Petitions to Revindicate Atahualpa’s Lineage,” SCJ, Summer 2025
Héctor Linares, “An Inca Girl’s Petitions to Revindicate Atahualpa’s Lineage: Bárbara de Atahualpa’s Letters to the Spanish Monarch, 1610–1613,” The Sixteenth Century Journa…
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November 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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It's up on my blog too emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/c...
November 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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I'm thrilled to see that the special issue of ECS, "Eighteenth-Century Coasts," is finally out today! Check out my essay on coral, and many other fantastic contributions: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
Project MUSE - Eighteenth-Century Studies-Volume 59, Number 1, Fall 2025
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November 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Article by @mgrana.bsky.social about navigating patronage and a career through the polycentric Spanish empire emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/g...
Graña Taborelli, “Juan Lozano Machuca and the Construction of the Global Spanish Monarchy,” SCJ, Spring 2025
Mario Graña Taborelli, “Juan Lozano Machuca and the Construction of the Global Spanish Monarchy in the Sixteenth Century,” The Sixteenth Century Journal 56.1 (2025).
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November 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Erik Alder analyses the Complutensian Polyglot as a book in the SCJ emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/a...
Alder, “Beyond Humanism in the Complutensian Polyglot Bible,” SCJ Fall/Winter 2024
Erik Alder, “Beyond Humanism in the Complutensian Polyglot Bible: Perspectives from Book Culture Studies,” The Sixteenth Century Journal 55.3-4 (2024).
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November 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Articles for us in CLAS emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/c...
CLAR 34.2 (2025)
There are articles for us in the Colonial Latin American Review 34.2 (2025): Yunning Zhang, “Chinos before the Yellow Race: Caterina de San Juan, the Achinada Mystic of New Spain.” José…
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October 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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CFP: PSHAM in Chicago next March 7! emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/c...
CFP: PSHAM, Chicago, March 7, 2026
The Premodern Spanish History Association of the Midwest (PSHAM) is taking place in Chicago this year, graciously hosted by Danny Wasserman-Soler of Lumen Christi. We’ll be meeting on March 7…
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October 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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I've tallied up not all, but the most relevant to us of the panels at the SCSC this weekend @16csociety.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/s...
SCSC, Portland, Oct 30-Nov 1, 2025
The Sixteenth Century Society Conference takes place in Portland from Oct 30 to Nov 1 in 2025. Here are some of the most salient panels for us: Thurs, Oct 30, 8:30 am Virtue, Vice, and Myth in the …
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October 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Articles for us in CLAS emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/c...
CLAR 34.1 (2025)
There are articles for us in the Colonial Latin American Review 34.1 (2025): Britanny Erwin, “‘An Unthinkable Novelty’: Ceremonies, Contests for Power, and the Creation of the Vic…
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October 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Seminar on Monday Oct 27 (available on Zoom): Candido, "Archives, Orality & West Central Voices, 1500-1800" emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/s...
Seminar: Iberian Worlds & Early Globalization – Candido, “Silences or Cacophony?” Oct 27, 2025
Permanent Seminar “Iberian Worlds and Early Globalization,” presents Prof. Mariana P. Candido (Emory University), “Silences or cacophony? Archives, orality, and West Central voices, 15…
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October 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Colonial Latin American Review has a special issue, featuring among others @braislamela.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/c...
CLAR Special Issue: “Motivated Mistranslation,” 33.4 2024
Colonial Latin American Review 33.4 (2024): Introduction: “‘Motivated mistranslation’: exploring translation practices in colonial contexts,” Flora Cassen and Stephanie L. K…
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October 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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New book on evidence, crime, and forensics that has some chapters for us, including one by @jodicampbell.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/n...
New Book: Homza & Scott, Evidence, Crime & Forensics
There are book chapters for us in Evidence, Crime, and Forensics in the Early Modern Mediterranean, Lu Ann Homza and Amanda L. Scott, eds (Routledge, 2026). 1, “On the Inquisition in Spain,&#…
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October 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Can I tempt you for a little history snack? Come find out about George III and how food played a role in his construction of masculinity. Spoiler: his masculinity was about so much more than the meat we associate with modern manliness. (He loved spinach and eggs.)
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📣Out now on #firstview!

Rachel Rich, Lisa Wynne Smith (@historybeagle.bsky.social), Sarah Fox (@sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social) & Adam Crymble (@adamcrymble.bsky.social) on 'Self-Fashioning, Food, and Masculinity in George III’s Monarchy'

#FoodHistory 18thc 🥧🥦🍞🗃️

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George III was a family man, a modest eater, and a thoughtful ruler who wrote about the big questions of the day, from royal sovereignty to the best methods of agriculture to feed a modern nation. His writings provide a glimpse of his version of monarchy, which placed him at the head of a national family, where he embodied the habits of self-regulation and temperance in keeping with the sensibilities of late eighteenth-century manhood. This article brings together George’s meals and his essays, considering the histories of food, masculinity, and self-fashioning, to argue that George was a monarch who embodied a new form of masculinity, as marked by his agricultural interests and insistence on a modest diet. His eating habits, along with his intellectual interests and public persona, bring us to the intersection between the private man and the public monarch. Drawing on newly digitized data, alongside contemporary caricatures and descriptions, and George’s own writing, we argue that moderation was central to George’s creation of an image that appealed to the emerging British nation of the late eighteenth century; food was central to this image, highlighting both his masculine self-control and his ability to be useful to the nation.
October 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Congratulations to @marcynorton.bsky.social and Amanda Wunder for winning AHA prizes! emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
Congrats to Wunder & Norton, AHA 2025 Prize Winners!
The American Historical Association has announced its prizes for 2025, and among them are: Amanda Wunder, winner of the Leo Gershoy Award in 17th and 18th-Century European History for Spanish Fashi…
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October 17, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Congratulations to @marcynorton.bsky.social and Amanda Wunder for winning AHA prizes! emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
Congrats to Wunder & Norton, AHA 2025 Prize Winners!
The American Historical Association has announced its prizes for 2025, and among them are: Amanda Wunder, winner of the Leo Gershoy Award in 17th and 18th-Century European History for Spanish Fashi…
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October 17, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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To raise money for collection care and new acquisitions, the Hispanic Society Museum and Library is deaccessioning dozens of European Old Master works, including a painting from the workshop of El Greco.
Hispanic Society to Sell Dozens of Artworks From Its Collection
The Washington Heights museum says it plans to use sales proceeds to fund preservation efforts and acquisitions that will “responsibly diversify” its holdings.
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October 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Daniel Hershenzon with a new article out about wax imports from the Maghrib! emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/h...
Hershenzon, “Social Life of Wax,” CSSH, Jan 2026
Daniel Hershenzon, “The Social Life of Wax in the Premodern Maghrib,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 68.2 (2026).
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October 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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New book featuring Crawford and Poska with chapters on healing and religion emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/b...
Book Chapters: Doctrine & Disease in the British & Spanish Colonial World
There are some chapters for us in Doctrine and Disease in the British and Spanish Colonial World, Kathleen Miller, ed. (Penn State, 2025). 1. The Secularization of Nature: Jesuit Missionaries and I…
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October 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Sam García reviews An Invisible Thread: Heresy, Mass Conversions, and the Inquisition in the Kingdom of Castile emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/g...
García Reviews Pastore in TMR, 2025
Samuel J. García reviews Stefania Pastore, An Invisible Thread, in The Medieval Review, 2025.
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October 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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I’d heard so much praise for this book and finally found time to read it. It’s a fascinating read that pushes us to reconsider the Eurocentric nature of Marxist accounts of production that often erase the history of medieval slavery.
October 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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New book by Pablo Acosta García exploring the collective creation of knowledge by the nuns surrounding Juana de la Cruz emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/n...
New Book: Acosta García, The Visionary Preaching of Juana de la Cruz
Pablo Acosta García, The Visionary Preaching of Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534): Ritual, Revelation, and Collective Writing (Brill, 2025).
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October 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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New edited collection about the Jesuits College in Lisbon, featuring a chapter by @lbrockey.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/n...
New Book: Santo Antão, Salomoni, Giurgevich, & Leitão
Santo Antão: The Jesuit College in Lisbon and Its History, David Salomoni, Luana Giurgevich, and Henrique Leitão, eds (Brill, 2025). Introduction: Why Santo Antão?, Henrique Leitão, Luana Giurgevic…
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October 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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As you dig out your chunky knitwear from the back of the draw, I know you are wondering: 'How did people prepare for winter 400 years ago?'

Read today's post to find out (and whet your appetite for our new book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England)

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The Experience of Work in Early Modern England I: Winter is Coming
This post is part of a series that marks the publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by monster head Mark Hailwood, along with Jane Whittle, Hannah Ro…
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October 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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New collection about the Morisco diaspora edited by Mercedes García-Arenal & @gerardwiegers.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/n...
New Book: Morisco Diaspora & Morisco Networks, García-Arenal & Weigers, eds
The Morisco Diaspora and the Morisco Networks across the Mediterranean, Mercedes García-Arenal and Gerard A. Wiegers, eds (Brill, 2025). hapter 1 After the Expulsion: Morisco Networks and Agen…
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October 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM