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Petitions to Protest: Popular Politics and Its Limits
Readings
Primary source: ‘Memorial y relación a Su Magestad’ (1625), in Seville, Archivo General de Indias, Patronato, 223, R. 8, doc. 1 (available online here: pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/show/126021?nm)
Jorge Flores and Giuseppe Marcocci, ‘Killing Images: Iconoclasm and the Art of Political Insult in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Portuguese India’, Itinerario 42, 3 (2018): 461-489 (available online here: solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44OXF_INST/ao2p7t/cdi_proquest_journals_2787523748)
Adrian Masters, We, the King: Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth Century Spanish New World (2023), 47-77 (Ch. 1: ‘Paper Ceremonies for a Global Empire’) (available online here: solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44OXF_INST/ao2p7t/cdi_cambridge_corebooks_9781009315425_TPT_fnmp_1)
J. H. Elliott, The Revolt of the Catalans: A Study in the Decline of Spain (1598-1640) (1963), 273-304 (Ch. 10: ‘The Struggle with the City’)
Date:
9 February 2026, 12:15
Venue:
Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details:
Rector's Dining Room
Speaker:
Reading Group
Organising department:
Faculty of History
Organiser contact email address:
iberian@history.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Iberian History Reading Group
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Belinda Clark
