Sir John H. Elliott

New Book: Ambassadors in Golden-Age Madrid

Ambassadors in Golden-Age Madrid. The Court of Philip IV through Foreign Eyes, Jorge Fernández-Santos and José Luis Colomer, eds, with prologue by Sir John H. Elliott and epilogue by Miguel Ángel Ochoa Brun (CEEH, 2020).

John H. Elliott, Prologue: Nationalism and Transnationalism in the Court of Spain

Jorge Fernández-Santos, The Madrid of the Ambassadors under Philip IV

José Luis Colomer, The Persuasive Diplomacy of Gifts

‘CHAPEL’ AMBASSADORS
Gino Benzoni, From Venice to Madrid, and Back Again: The Venetian Ambassador Giacomo Querini

Luis Tercero Casado, In the Service of the August House: The Embassy of the Marquess of Grana,
Imperial Representative during the Dynastic Crisis (1641–51)

Bertrand Haan, Diplomatic Stagecraft at the Court of Spain: The 1659 Reception for Louis XIV’s Ambassador Antoine Gramont

Jan Kieniewicz and Matylda Urjasz-Raczko, Fathoming Spanish Arcana: The Polish Ambassador Stanisław Mąkowski’s Impossible Mission to the Court of Philip IV (1638–47)

Lisa Beaven and José Luis Colomer, ‘Questo non basta a contentar una donna spagnola’: Camillo Massimo as Papal Nuncio in Madrid and His Later Ties to Spain (1655–62)

ACROSS CONFESSIONAL BORDERS: AMBASSADORS FROM THE NORTH
Maurits Ebben, Cross-Confessional and Diplomatic Incidents: Dutch Ambassadors in Madrid (1648–72)

Piers Baker-Bates and Alistair Malcolm, Sir Richard Fanshawe: The Restoration Tragedy of a Cavalier Aesthete

Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, ‘Fashioning’ Sir Arthur Hopton

Enrique Corredera Nilsson, The Cultivated Negotiator: Cornelius Lerche’s Missions in Madrid (1650–55, 1658–62)

Hans Helander and Martin Olin, Reporting Back to the ‘Phoenix of so Many Centuries’: Mathias Palbitzki, Queen Christina’s Envoy to Spain (1651–52)

SMALL ITALIAN STATES AND THE SUBLIME PORTE

Piero Boccardo, ‘The Wealthiest and Most Learned Gentleman of That Republic’: The Embassy of Anton Giulio Brignole-Sale in Madrid (1644–46)

Paola Volpini, On the Translatability of Scientific Discoveries: Galileo, Medicean Diplomacy and the Spanish Court (1612–32)

Jorge Fernández-Santos and Hüseyin Serdar Tabakoğlu, The Unexpected Ottoman Guest: Ahmed Agha in Madrid (1649–50)

Mercedes Simal López, Harbinger of a Prospective Alliance with Ducal Modena: The Diplomat and Poet Fulvio Testi’s Missions to Madrid (1636, 1638)

Miguel-Ángel Ochoa Brun
Epilogue: Philip IV’s Ambassadors

Sad News: Sir John H. Elliott Has Died

From El Pais: “Muere John H. Elliott, el historiador británico maestro de hispanistas, a los 91 años.”

Review Article by Elliott in JEMH March 2022

In the Journal of Early Modern History 26/1-2 (2022) John Elliott reviews:

The Oxford Handbook of Borderlands in the Iberian World, edited by Danna A. Levin Rojo and Cynthia Radding

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Colonial Latin American and the Caribbean (1492–1898), edited by Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Santa Arias

The Iberian World 1450–1820, edited by Fernando Bouza, Pedro Cardim, and Antonio Feros

Iberian Empires and the Roots of Globalization, edited by Ivonne del Valle, Anna More, and Rachel Sarah O’Toole

Monarquias Ibéricas em Perspectiva Comparada (Sécs. XVI–XVIII). Dinâmicas Imperiais e Circulação de Modelos Administrativos, edited by Ângela Barreto Xavier, Federico Palomo, and Roberta Stumpf

New Book: The Early Modern Hispanic World: Festschrift for Richard Kagan

Kimberly Lynn and Erin Rowe, eds, The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches (Cambridge, 2017).

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.

New Book: Walker, “The Tupac Amaru Rebellion” (plus Elliott Review in NYBR)

Charles F. Walker, The Tupac Amaru Rebellion (Harvard, 2014).

J. H. Elliott, “The Huge, Ignored Uprising in the Andes,” The New York Review of Books, Oct. 23, 2014.

Panels at the 2013 ASPHS Conference, Albuquerque NM

Again, I’m sorry that I neglected to get these up before the conference began, when it might have been helpful. But in the interest of trying to be comprehensive, and letting us all know what our colleagues are working on, here are the early modern panels that took place last month at the ASPHS Conference in Albuquerque, NM:

Friday, April 5:

SESSION 2
Grappling with Islam in the Early Modern Spanish Mediterranean

Comment: Andrew W. Devereux (Loyola Marymount University)

“Christian Myths of a Muslim Ruler: Saladin in El Conde Lucanor”
Maria Pluta (University of Notre Dame)

“‘I am a Muslim and That is What I Want to Be’: A First-Hand Account of the Expulsion of the Moriscos”
Libby Nutting (UT-Austin)

“Reversing Empires and Reversing Sorrow in a Portuguese Planctus”
José Miguel Martínez Torrejón (Queens College)

SESSION 4
Early Modern Portugal and Print Culture Across Borders

Organizer: Kirsten Schultz (Seton Hall University)

Comment: Jack Norton (Normandale Community College)

“Pamphlets, Politics, and Religion: The Whitehall Conferences and the Quest for Jewish Readmission into England”
María Ana Valez (Yale University)

“Portuguese Pamphlets and the History of the Present, ca. 1700-1750”
Kirsten Schultz (Seton Hall University)

“Reporting the Lisbon Earthquake”
Mark Molesky (Seton Hall University)

SESSION 5
From Crisis to Crisis: The Reign of the Junta Central, 1808-1810

Chair: Scott Eastman (Creighton University)

Comment: Sean Perrone (Saint Anselm College)

“The Republican Origins of Spanish Liberalism”
Alberto Sahagun (Bucknell University)

“The Brief but Effective Rule of the Junta Central over Western Andalusia”
Charles Nicholas Saenz (UC-San Diego)

“The Junta Central and the Governing of the Indies: The Case of the Captaincy General of Venezuela”
Olga Gonzalez-Silen (Harvard University)

SESSION 6
Land and Power in the Early Modern Hispanic World

Comment:
Marta V. Vicente (University of Kansas)

“New Mexico Acequiasas Living Simulacra of Medieval Peninsular Irrigation Communities”
Thomas F. Glick (Boston University)

“Forests of the Ultramar: The Conservation and Exploitation of Timber Sources in Colonial Shipyards in the Americans and the Philippines, c. 1500-c.1750″
John T. Wing (College of Staten Island-CUNY)

“Eucalypts in Northern Ecuador: An Environmental History”
Kenneth Kincaid (Purdue University North Central)

PLENARY SESSION I
Panel in Honor of William D. and Carla R. Phillips

Carla and Wim’s students and colleagues gather to recognize and honor their careers and contributions to the Spanish historical profession.

Chair: Jodi Campbell, Texas Christian University

Comment:
Luis Morera, Baylor University
Allyson Poska, University of Mary Washington
Anne Marie Wolf, University of Maine-Farmington
Dan Crews, University of Central Missouri
Jack Norton, Normandale Community College

SESSION 8
Troubled Identities: Jews and Conversos in the Old and New Worlds

Organizer: Roger L. Martinez (UC-Colorado Springs)

Comment: Amy Aronson-Friedman (Valdosta State University)

“Crisis and Opportunity: The Case of Blanca of Girona in Late Fourteenth Century Catalonia”
Alexandra Guerson (University of Toronto) and
Dana Wessell Lightfoot (University of Northern British Columbia)

“Frameworks: Spanish History, Identity, and Converso Historiography”
Roger L. Martinez (UC-Colorado Springs)

SESSION 11
Daily Life in Early Modern Iberia

Chair: Dan Crews (University of Central Missouri)

Comment: Allyson M. Poska (University of Mary Washington)

“Daily Life and Living Conditions in the Inquisitorial Prison at Valladolid, 1572-1577”
J. Michael Fulton (Whitworth University)

“‘The Lords of the Seven Parishes’: Silk Workers, Popular Politics, and Revolt in Early Modern Seville”
Igor Knezevic (University of Pennsylvania)

“Race, Gender, and Justice in Sixteenth-Century Portugal”
Darlene Abreu-Ferreira (University of Winnipeg)

“The Portuguese Inquisition, the Intermediate Groups and the Control over the Peripheries (17-18^th centuries)”
Fernanda Olival (Universidade de Évora)

Saturday, April 6

SESSION 13
Identity and Empire: Atlantic and Pacific Perspectives

Chair: Enrique Sanabria (University of New Mexico)

“The Many Faces and the Far Reaches of Creolism in Habsburg Peru”
Guillermo García Montufar (Johns Hopkins University)

“The Spanish Empire And The Pacific World: Mexican ‘Vagrants, Idlers, And Troublemakers’ in the Philippines, 1765-1821”
Eva Mehl (UNC-Wilmington)

“Exile, Captivity, and Freedom: The Blanco Whites and Spain’s War of Independence, 1808-1814”
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara (Tufts University)

“Mexican Nationalism as Seen by a Spanish Lieutenant in his Personal Diary, 1821-1822”
Claudia Guarisco (El Colegio Mexiquense, A.C.)

SESSION 14
Authorial Self-Fashioning in Early Modern Spanish Historiography

Organizer: Katherine van Liere (Calvin College)

Comment: Allyson M. Poska (University of Mary Washington)

“Habsburg Spain’s History Teacher: Ambrosio de Morales’s Coronica general and Antiguedades as Pedagogical Tools”
Katherine van Liere (Calvin College)

“Self-Fashioning, Novelistic Discourse and the Truth of History: Informaciones de servicio and Early Spanish Colonialism in the Southern United States”
Alexander Samson (University College-London)

“The Forging of an Intellectual Career: Inca Garcliaso de la Vega’s Self-Fashioning”
Fernando Rodriguez-Mansilla (Hobart & William Smith Colleges)

SESSION 16
Golden Anniversaries: J. H. Elliott’s Imperial Spain and Revolt of the Catalans after Fifty Years

Organized by: Xavier Gil (Universitat de Barcelona) and
Geoffrey Parker (Ohio State University)

“The writing of Spanish history before and after 1963 (Spanish, including Catalan, and non-Spanish alike) and re-integrating Spain within European/world History”
Xavier Gil (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and
Antonio Zaldívar (UCLA)

“Restoring the Role of Human Agency”
James Boyden (Tulane University) and
Ruth MacKay (Stanford University)

“Promoting Comparative, Atlantic, and Global history”
Geoffrey Parker (Ohio State University) and
Molly Warsh (University of Pittsburgh)

Response: Sir John H. Elliott (Oxford University)

PLENARY SESSION II
In Honor of Richard L. Kagan: Rethinking “Prescott’s Paradigm” – A New Paradigm for a New Millennium?

Chair: Erin Kathleen Rowe (Johns Hopkins University)

Response: Richard L. Kagan and Audience

Luis Corteguera, University of Kansas
Xavier Gil, Universitat de Barcelona
Kimberly Lynn, Western Washington University
Marta M. Vicente, University of Kansas

SESSION 17
Across the Ages: Medieval and Early Modern Representations of Religious Identity and Conversion

Organizer: Roger Martinez

Comment: Pilar Ryan (US Military Academy)

“Converso Identities in Late Medieval Spain: Intermediacy and Indeterminacy”
Elizabeth Koza (SUNY-New Paltz)

“Against the Current: Leocritia of Cordova’s Conversion to Christianity”
Micah K. Martin (UC-Irvine)

SESSION 20
Peace, War, and Royal Authority in the Hispanic World

Chair and Comment: Michelle Armstrong-Partida (UT-El Paso)

“Sovereignty and the Royal Peace in the Crown of Aragon, 1213-1276”
Jennifer Speed (University of Dayton)

“Just War and the Christian Prince: Juan López de Palacios Rubios and Ideologies of Empire in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish World”
Andrew W. Devereux (Loyola Marymount University)

“‘Having Served in the Troops’: The Appointment of Military Officers as Provincial Governors in Eighteenth-Century Spanish America”
Francisco Eissa-Barroso (El Colegio de Michoacán)

BANQUET
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: ADRIAN SHUBERT

Sunday, April 7

SESSION 23
Sacred Art, Family, and Identity in the Early Modern Hispanic World

Chair and Comment: Luis Corteguera (University of Kansas)

“Music, Art, Theater, Syncretism, and Angels in New Spain”
Cesar Favila (University of Chicago)

“The Jesuit Reductions of Paraguay”
Maria Giulia Genghini (University of Notre Dame)

“Collecting the New World: Latin American Art in Habsburg Inventories”
Kate Holohan (NYU)