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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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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…

New collection about the Morisco diaspora edited by Mercedes García-Arenal & @gerardwiegers.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/n...

06.10.2025 16:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Invention of Rum – Penn Press A complex history of rum, from its production to its consumption, and from its origins in the Caribbean to its impact on the Atlantic world It was strong. It...

🗃 Here's a link to the book:
www.pennpress.org/978151282818...

04.10.2025 17:17 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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New Book: Ownerships Regimes in the Iberian World, Bastias Saavedra Ownership Regimes in the Iberian World (1500-1850), Manuel Bastias Saavedra, ed. (Brill 2025).

New collection of essays about the interplay between law and local circumstances emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/n...

03.10.2025 18:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New Book, Moreno Cabanillas, Caribbean Letters Rocio Moreno Cabanillas, Caribbean Letters: The Circulation of Information in the Spanish Monarchy during the Bourbon Reforms (Brill, 2024).

New book by @rociomorcab.bsky.social on the Bourbon reform of the Caribbean postal service emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/n...

01.10.2025 15:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New Book: Vázquez, Velázquez, Painter & Curator Julia Vázquez, Velázquez, Painter & Curator (Brill, 2025).

Julia Vázquez explores Velázquez's career as curator of the Habsburg art collection emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/n...

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Happy #NationalCoffeeDay! We're celebrating by spotlighting Michelle McDonald's meticulously researched, must-read new book COFFEE NATION, which explores how coffee tied the economic future of the early United States to the wider Atlantic world.

bit.ly/448PrAZ

29.09.2025 19:07 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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New Book: Pastore, An Invisible Thread Stefania Pastore, An Invisible Thread: Heresy, Mass Conversions, and the Inquisition in the Kingdom of Castile (1449-1559) (Brill, 2024).

Stefania Pastore with a new book about the Inquisition's first decades emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/n...

29.09.2025 18:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I can’t wait - finishing up Britain at Bay right now - best book I’ve read in a while!

28.09.2025 20:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I just do not run if there’s a possibility of ice (from MN originally, lived in Albany 11 years). Not worth it. Just take a break for a few weeks.

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Kukoc was fine; it’s Jerry Krause in hell.

27.09.2025 03:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you distill Rodman, he’s a Piston.

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Thirst for Wine and War, A | McGill-Queen’s University Press McGill-Queen’s University Press

www.mqup.ca/thirst-for-w...

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New Book: McMahon, Iridescence & the Image Brendan C. McMahon, Iridescence and the Image: Material Thinking in the Early Modern Spanish World (Penn State, 2025).

New book by Brendan McMahon on iridescence - eg silk, hummingbirds, seashells - in art and thought in the early modern Spanish world emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/n...

24.09.2025 14:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Chapters in Cultures of the Popular in the Modern Hispanic World There are some chapters for us in Cultures of the Popular in the Modern Hispanic World, Alison Sinclair, ed. (Boydell & Brewer, 2024). 1. “No solo vulgo: sobre los públicos de la literatu…

New book featuring ephemeral literature in the Iberian world emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/c...

23.09.2025 16:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Edited Collection: Early Modern Women’s Mobility, Authority, & Agency, Cruz & Franganillo Álvarez Early Modern Women’s Mobility, Authority, and Agency across the Spanish Empire, Anne Cruz, Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez, eds (Amsterdam UP, 2024). “Introduction: Early Modern Women’s M…

New collection of articles about women traveling across the Spanish empire emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/e...

22.09.2025 18:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ah yes, the fundamentals, aka stuff you don't really have to teach to NFL players.

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First post of the new academic year and it's a good one: JOBS! There are THREE fixed-term research jobs in @kingshistory.bsky.social attached to my colleague Francisco Bethencourt's new ERC project on the Visual and Material Culture of New Christians. Please circulate!

#EarlyModern 🗃️

19.09.2025 14:38 — 👍 40    🔁 41    💬 1    📌 2
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New Book: Rojas, Bad Christians & Hanging Toads Rochelle Rojas, Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: Witch Crafting in Northern Spain, 1525-1675 (Cornell, 2025).

New book about every-day witchcraft in Navarre by Rochelle Rojas emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/n...

18.09.2025 18:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New Book: Kallendorf, Perilous Passions Hillaire Kallendorf, Perilous Passions: Ethics and Emotions in Early Modern Spain (University of Toronto Press, 2024).

New book by Kallendorf exploring emotions in Golden Age literature emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/n...

17.09.2025 16:53 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Edited Collection: Eloquent Images Eloquent Images: Evangelisation, Conversion and Propaganda in the Global World of the Early Modern Period, Giuseppe Capriotti, Pierre-Antoine Fabre, & Sabina Pavone, eds (Leuven University Pres…

Book chapters on the role of images in evangelization emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/e...

16.09.2025 17:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Kristie Patricia Flannery. Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World Kristie Patricia Flannery’s book Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World joins a remarkable number of recent histories about the Philippines. Th

And also a great review of @thehistoriann.bsky.social's award winning book on Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World!
academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

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New Book: Gansen, Natural Designs Elizabeth Gansen, Natural Designs: Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and the Invention of New World Nature (Penn, 2023).

New book by Elizabeth Gansen on natural history and empire emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/n...

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Boo light the fire

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Gilbert, “Empire of Translation,” Book Chapter Iberian Babel: Translation and Multilingualism in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean, Michelle M. Hamilton and Nuria Silleras-Fernandez, eds (Brill, 2022) has a chapter for us: Claire Gilb…

Claire Gilbert with a book chapter on families specializing in translation across the Habsburg empire emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/11/g...

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New Book: Confraternities of Misericórdia and the Portuguese Diasporas, dos Guimarães Sá & Rodrigues The Confraternities of Misericórdia and the Portuguese Diasporas in the Early Modern Period, Isabel dos Guimarães Sá and Lisbeth Rodrigues, eds (Brill, 2023). Introduction, Isabel dos Guimarães Sá …

Edited collection on the Confraternities of Misericordia in the early modern Portuguese world emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/n...

09.09.2025 18:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New Book: Love Magic & Control Veronica Menaldi, Love Magic and Control in Premodern Iberian Literature (Routledge, 2022).

New (to me) book about love magic in literature emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/n...

08.09.2025 16:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Translated Article by Glesener & Hershenzon Annales has produced a translation of an article, previously published, by Thomas Glesener and Daniel Hershenzon, “‘In the Streets, You See Nothing but Muslims!’: Unbound Slavery …

New translation of an article from a year ago by Glesener & Hershenzon emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/t...

04.09.2025 18:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Special Issue of the JEMH The Journal of Early Modern History 29.4 (2025)has a special issue, “Archives & Objects,” that features some articles for us. Yonatan Glazer-Eytan and Giuseppe Marcocci, “Mate…

New special issue of @earlymodhistory.bsky.social featuring works by Yonatan Glazer-Eytan & Giuseppe Marcocci and @anastruillou.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/s...

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My daughter is a freshman at Michigan and she’s in the marching band (flags) - went to the first game last week and the entire spectacle was so fantastic

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I forgot to tag @cripolles.bsky.social!

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