@scottktaylor.bsky.social
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/
The remarkable power of... paperwork?
The Radical Spanish Empire is a new, groundbreaking history of political struggle in the Spanish New World—
A world where commoners and elites alike challenged the social order through paper politics.
Keep reading: bit.ly/46CYw73
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of 'Communities of Violence' by Prof David Nirenberg! He will be engaging in conversation with other scholars about his work and the history of religious persecution.
Join us on 14 April at @ghilondon.bsky.social 😊
#skystorians #medievalsky #earlymodern #medieval
The first time I read Jane Austen, in college, I didn't realize it was supposed to be funny. (This also says something about the prof...)
Here we go: Critical Race Studies at Holy Cross College (Worcester)
This says a lot more about the discipline of Political Science than it does about chatbots
Review of Green's new book in the TLS emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/03/03/w...
Toby Green's new book uses Inquisition records to explore a slave-trading port and a powerful woman slave trader emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/27/n...
Special issue of CHM on captivity along the borderlands of Spain's empire emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/26/c...
Special issue of the Cuadernos de Historia Moderna about public opinion in the wars of Spain in Italy emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/24/s...
Info on applying to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Postdoctoral Fellowship
emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/19/a...
@dr-sprockets.bsky.social & Emily Colbert Cairns explore Zayas's writing about honor & limpieza de sangre in @emwjournal.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/s...
Lots of good stuff in the latest issue of Diechiocho emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/a...
Letters between the Princess of Asturia and the Austrian Empress during the Napoleonic Wars, and exiled Jesuits playwrights in Diechiocho emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/a...
Lu Ann Homza and collaborators have put out the Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Inquisition! emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/t...
@historylloyd.bsky.social & Megan Crutcher write about Black sailors contesting the homogenizing racial categories into which Portuguese officials tried to slot them emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/c...
Heather Bamford's new book uses unpublished manuscripts to explore the practice of reading emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/n...
Article in The Americas that unveils indigenous intellectual labor in the making of the Braidense Lectionary emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/m...
Elena Deanda-Camacho asserts the centrality of Spanish-language women in the Enlightenment emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/d...
John Giblin shows how Augustin de Rojas positioned himself as a nobleman in his writing, while Juan Pablo Dominguez explores Feijoo's ambivalence about the Inquisition and the Enlightenment emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/a...
Abigail Agresta complicates our understanding of plague quarantine as a "modern" innovation, exploring how towns mistrusted others' statements of health and lied about their own emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/tag/abigail-...
Jessica Maratsos writing about mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell, and lacquer caskets from east Asia that became reliquaries in Iberia emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/m...
Íñigo Ena Sanjuán gives us 4 case studies detailing the changing interplay between corruption and reform in the 18th century emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/s...
Articles in a special issue on Blackness in Medieval Iberia, ed. by Nicholas Jones and featuring @mourelle.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/s...
Caroline Cunill explains how Mayan caciques adopted religious language about poverty for legal purposes emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/c...
@fsoyer.bsky.social with a new article in the Journal of the History of Sexuality utpress.utexas.edu/journals/jou...
Catalan article in the newspaper El Pais about my 2023 book The ‘Catalan Hermaphrodite’ and the Inquisition: Early Modern Sex and Gender on Trial. elpais.com/quadern/2026...
Reixach Sala explores urban measures taken for public health emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/r...
Idan Sherer looks at a soldier's memoir that has been used to examine military history and instead asks, why did he write it? emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/s...