The Early Modern Hispanic World
Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches

This book engages with new ways of thinking about boundaries of the early modern Hispanic past, looking at current scholarly techniques.

Kimberly Lynn (Edited by), Erin Kathleen Rowe (Edited by)

9781107109285, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 31 January 2017

360 pages, 14 b/w illus. 6 maps
23.6 x 15.8 x 2.9 cm, 0.73 kg

'In this valuable volume, Lynn and Rowe offer a 'state of the field' analysis of early modern Spanish studies. … It will serve seasoned experts, and it will provide an excellent introduction to the field for graduate students, exposing them to the wide range of methods at work in early modern Spanish studies.' Daniel I. Wasserman-Soler, Nuova Rivista Storica

Iberia stands at the center of key trends in Atlantic and world histories, largely because Portugal and Spain were the first European kingdoms to 'go global'. The Early Modern Hispanic World engages with new ways of thinking about the early modern Hispanic past, as a field of study that has grown exponentially in recent years. It focuses predominantly on questions of how people understood the rapidly changing world in which they lived - how they defined, visualized, and constructed communities from family and city to kingdom and empire. To do so, it incorporates voices from across the Hispanic World and across disciplines. The volume considers the dynamic relationships between circulation and fixedness, space and place, and how new methodologies are reshaping global history, and Spain's place in it.

Introduction. Mapping the early modern Hispanic world Kimberly Lynn and Erin Rowe
Part I. City and Society: 1. Towns and the forging of the Spanish Caribbean Ida Altman
2. The walk of the town: modeling the early modern city James S. Amelang
3. The king, the city, and the saints - performing sacred kingship in the royal capital Erin Rowe
Part II. Religion, Race, and Community: 4. A minority within a minority - the new and old Jewish converts of Sigüenza, 1492–1570 Sara T. Nalle
5. On the Alumbrados - confessionalism and religious dissidence in the Iberian world Mercedes García-Arenal and Felipe Pereda
6. The Spanish encounter with Islam Benjamin Ehlers
7. From peasants to slave owners - race, class, and gender in the Spanish Empire Allyson Poska
Part III. Law and Letters: 8. On early modern science in Spain María Portuondo
9. Spanish inquisitors, print, and the problem of publication Kimberly Lynn
10. 'An immense structure of errors' - Dionisio Bonfant, Lucas Holstenius, and the writing of sacred history in seventeenth-century Sardinia A. Katie Harris
11. The forces of the king. The generation that read Botero in Spain Xavier Gil
Part IV. Performance and Place: 12. Censuring public images: a woodcut in the inquisition trial of Esteban Jamete Fernando Marías Franco
13. Epic temptation - Lope de Vega's Battle of Lepanto Elizabeth R. Wright
14. Staging femininity in early modern Spain Marta V. Vicente
Conclusion. The history of early modern Spain in retrospect Sir John Elliott.

Subject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH], European history [HBJD], General & world history [HBG]