‘09 Books I Missed: Part I

María M. Portuondo, Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World (Chicago, 2009).

Hispanic Review: Review of “All Can Be Saved”

In the Winter 2010 Hispanic Review, Kenneth J. Andrien reviews Stuart B. Schwartz, All Can Be Saved: Religious Toleration and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World (Yale, 2008).

Review link requires Project Muse.

CFP: Wake Forest

Call for Papers

Dominant Discourses, guarded voices :

Religion and Society in spain and its Empire 14th-16th Centuries

October 21-22, 2010

Topics: Expulsion of Minorities, Religious Heterodoxy and dissent, Mysticism Illuminism, Conversos, moriscos, crypto-Jews, Cultural authority, Christian humanism, Women’s Religiosity, The Inquisition, The Index of banned books, The Catholic Reformation, Translations of the Bible, The Council of Trent, Religious life. 

 

An Interdisciplinary Conference on the Campus of Wake Forest University, Salem, North Carolina.

 

Organizers:

Jane W. Albrecht

albrecht@wfu.edu

Sol Miguel -Prendes
solmp@wfu.edu

Keynote Speakers

M Mercedes Carrión, Emory University

 

 

Cynthia Robinson, Cornell University

:David Nirenberg, University of Chicago

Deadline for electronic submission of 300-word abstracts: March 15, 2010

Graduate students, please send completed papers

*Selected talks will be invited to be developed into papers to be published in a thematic cluster in

 La corónica   

 

NY Times on “Blood and Faith”

In this Sunday’s New York Times Book Reviews, Geoffrey Wheatcroft reviews Matthew Carr, Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain (the New Press, 2009).

Modernity in the Hispanic World: a Review

Eighteenth Century Studies features a long review by Margaret R. Ewalt – with its own special title: “How Eighteenth-Century Spain and Spanish America Challenge Scholarly Models of Modernity and Postmodern Enlightenment Paradigms” - of Ruth Hill, Hierarchy, Commerce, and Fraud in Bourbon Spanish America: A Postal Inspector’s Exposé (Vanderbilt, 2005).

Review link requires Project Muse.

Lagrimas de Eros at the Thyssen

The New York Times mentions an exhibition at the Thyssen featuring some early modern Spanish works: “Lagrimas de Eros.”

SCSC Call for Papers on Hispanic World

This in from Liz Lehfeldt (also on Espora):

Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to invite you to consider submitting a panel or paper for the 2010 meeting of the Sixteenth Century Studies Society.  In recent years, we’ve been able to offer a robust number of sessions and papers on the early modern Hispanic world and I hope that this year will be the same.

I have included the instructions for submission below.  Please be sure when choosing a track for your paper submission to choose “Spanish/Latin American Studies.”  And please also note the instructions for panel submissions which have changed from previous years.

Don’t hesitate to let me know if you have any questions.

all the best, Liz Lehfeldt

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The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) is now
accepting proposals for individual papers and complete sessions for its annual
conference, to be held at the Hilton Bonaventure in Montreal, 14-17 October
2010. The SCSC, founded to
promote scholarship on the early modern era (ca. 1450 – ca. 1660), actively
encourages the participation of international scholars as well as the integration
of younger colleagues into the academic community. We
also welcome proposals for roundtables sponsored by scholarly societies that
are affiliated with the SCSC.
In honor of our bilingual host city, proposals are
encouraged in either English or French.

Abstracts (up to 250 words in length)
for papers and sessions may be submitted online
at: www.sixteenthcentury.org

After panel organizers submit their panel proposal, they should contact
the individual presenters and provide each of them with the title of
the panel. Individual presenters who are to be associated with a panel
must submit their own paper abstract for the panel by choosing the
panel title from the list of panels on the website.

The deadline for submissions is 15 March 2010. Within four weeks after the
deadline, the Program Committee will notify all those who submitted proposals.
Hotel and accommodation information will be posted in early
2010.

***************

**************
Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt 
Professor and Chair
History Department 
Cleveland State University 
2121 Euclid Avenue 
Cleveland, OH  44115
216-687-3920
e.lehfeldt@csuohio.edu

New Books for a New Year

Jonathan Brown and Richard G. Mann, Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries (Princeton, 2010).

Mercedes Maroto Camino, Exploring the Explorers: Spaniards in Oceania, 1519-1794 (Manchester University Press, 2009).

And here’s an old one I missed: Buddy Levy, Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs (Random House, 2009).

New in paperback: Mark Meyerson, A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain (Princeton, 2004).

New Journal: Medieval Iberian Studies

There’s a new journal out: the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies. There are already two issues, and they include some historiographical pieces of interest to us, but not yet any specific articles that creep up into the 15th century far enough to land on this blog. But it’s on my radar screen now.

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Exhibiton and Lecture on Velázquez

In conjunction with the exhibition, “Velázquez Rediscovered,” Jonathan Brown will give a talk at 2:00 on Sunday, January 24, entitled: “A Restored Velázquez, A Velázquez Restored.” The exhibition itself runs through Feburary 7, 2010.

Admission is free with general museum admission.