I attended the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference in St. Louis last week, and I’d like to comment on a few papers I heard there. (My policy for this blog is that I won’t post about unpublished work like conference papers without the permission of the author.)
The most interesting paper I saw in St. Louis was Sara T. Nalle’s “Ethnic Identity and Family Strategies in Spanish Inquisition Ego-Documents.” Basically, it was a fascinating account of how conversos described their relationships with each other and with Old Christians. It also offered an early glimpse at Nalle’s next book on familiy identity in early modern Spain which, if this paper is any indication, will be phenomenal.
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