The king, Islam, and the Americas: what was Iberian history?

Attendance is free. The PDFs of the three readings on which each session will be based can be obtained writing to giuseppe.marcocci@history.ox.ac.uk

Kagan, R., Clio and the crown: the politics of history in medieval and early modern Spain (2009), Ch. 4 (“His Majesty’s history”, 124-149).

García-Arenal, M., ‘The religious identity of the Arabic language and the affair of the Lead Books of Granada’, Arabica, 56, no. 6 (2009): 495-528.

Cañizares-Esguerra, J., How to write the history of the New World: histories, epistemologies, and identities in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world (2001), Ch. 2 (Changing European interpretations of the reliability of indigenous sources, 60-129).

Date: 23 May 2018, 14:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Trinity 2018)
Venue: Maddicott Room, Cohen Quad (new building of Exeter College in Walton St)
Speaker: Various Speakers
Part of: Reading Group on Early Modern Iberian History
Booking required?: Not required
Booking email: giuseppe.marcocci@history.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Laura Spence