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Scott K Taylor
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I study early modern Europe and the history of drugs & alcohol at the University of Kentucky. I post about new scholarship on early modern Spain at https://emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/
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CFP: PSHAM in Chicago next March 7! emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/c...
CFP: PSHAM, Chicago, March 7, 2026
The Premodern Spanish History Association of the Midwest (PSHAM) is taking place in Chicago this year, graciously hosted by Danny Wasserman-Soler of Lumen Christi. We’ll be meeting on March 7…
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It’s officially pub day for Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America‘s First Opioid Crisis! Available at a bookshop near you. Thanks to everyone who made it possible to bring this research to life! 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146968953...
Book stack of Opium Slavery on a table with curtains as a backdrop.
October 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Magdalena Sánchez's new book about the daughter of Philip II and Duchess of Savoy is out emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/n...
New Book: Sánchez, Infanta
Magdalena S. Sánchez, Infanta: The Short, Remarkable Life of Catalina Micaela (Yale, 2025).
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November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Stacey Parker Aronson looking at the meaning of a pig in a pliego suelto emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/a...
Aronson, “Affirmation of Pro-Christian Ideology through Gastronomy,” JSCS 26.3 2025
Stacey L. Parker Aronson, “A Pig in a Poke? An Affirmation of Pro-Christian Ideology through Gastronomy in an Early Modern Spanish Pliego Suelto,” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 26…
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November 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Luis Corteguera & Irene Olivares explore the metaphor of king as mother in @jwomenshistory.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/c...
Corteguera & Olivares, “King as Mother,” JWH, Summer 2025
Luis R. Corteguera and Irene Olivares, “King as Mother: Gendered Metaphors of Power in Early Modern Europe,” Journal of Women’s History 37.2 (2025).
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November 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Articles about the difficulties of foreign merchants coming into 18th cent Peru and bigamy and slavery in Brazil in the @hahr21.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/t...
Two Articles in the HAHR, Nov 2025
The Hispanic American Historical Review 105.4 (2025): Raúl Alencar, “Strangers in the Promised Land: Jenízaros, Foreigners, and the Perils of Trade in Colonial Peru, 1750–1764.” Evergto…
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November 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Special issue of @hahr21.bsky.social on colonial infrastructure, featuring boundary markers, wheat, letters, and more letters emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/h...
HAHR Special Issue: “Infrastructures of Spanish Empire,” Aug 2025
“Infrastructures of Spanish Empire,” Hispanic American Historical Review 105.3 (2025): Mallory E. Matsumoto, “Narrating Boundary Markers in Early Colonial Highland Guatemala.&#822…
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November 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Two articles in last May's @hahr21.bsky.social, one on the apparition of the Virgin in the Tzeltal Revolt, another on clandestine gold smelting in New Granada emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/a...
Articles in the HAHR, May 2025
The Hispanic American Historical Review 102.2 (2025) has two articles for us: Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara, “Unveiling the Virgin: Maya Marianism on the Eve of the 1712 Tzeltal Revolt.” Ja…
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November 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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@dhbuffalo.bsky.social with an op ed in the NYT attacking the administration for using the hoary myth of a pure America attacked by an invasion of drugs brought by non-white outsiders www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
Opinion | Our Deadly Fentanyl Delusion
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November 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Mercado-Montero investigates indigenous Antilles residents taking captives and making space for themselves as the Spanish try to control the Caribbean in @hahr21.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/m...
Mercado-Montero, “Indigenous Raiding, Captive Taking, & the Politics of Maritime Violence,” HAHR, Feb 2025
Ernesto Mercado-Montero, “Indigenous Raiding, Captive Taking, and the Politics of Maritime Violence in the Long Sixteenth-Century Lesser Antilles,” Hispanic American Historical Review 1…
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November 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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A group of authors posit a new approach to studying the ornamentation of churches in the Spanish Atlantic world emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/g...
Guzmán et al, “Architectural Theory & Theology of the Catholic Church Ornamentation,” CHR, Summer 2025
Fernando Guzmán, Josefina Schenke, Rodrigo Moreno, & Paola Corti, “Architectural Theory and Theology of the Catholic Church Ornamentation in Spain and Hispano-America (Sixteenth Century):…
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November 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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José Carlos de la Puente Luna finds indigenous Andean people using the colonial land inspection for their own purposes emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/d...
De la Puente Luna, “Andean Primordial Titles, Land Repossession, and the Rise of New Communities,” The Americas, Jan 2025
José Carlos de la Puente Luna, “Andean Primordial Titles, Land Repossession, and the Rise of New Communities during the First General Land Inspection (1594-1602),” The Americas, 82.1 (2…
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November 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Another article by @hectorlinares.bsky.social - this one on an escaped enslaved man from Sierra Leone who managed, via a royal petition, to get his former enslaver to pay him a pension in recognition of his military service emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/l...
Linares, “Seeking Freedom & Honor through Royal Service in 16th-Cent Panama,” Americas Oct 2024
Héctor Linares, “Antón Zape, “Un Negro de mucho Precio”: Seeking freedom and honor through royal service in sixteenth-century Panama,” The Americas 81.4 (2024).
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November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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@hectorlinares.bsky.social examines petitions from the Inca royal family to the Council of the Indies, examining their attempts to preserve their family's standing in the new colonial order emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/l...
Linares, “An Inca Girl’s Petitions to Revindicate Atahualpa’s Lineage,” SCJ, Summer 2025
Héctor Linares, “An Inca Girl’s Petitions to Revindicate Atahualpa’s Lineage: Bárbara de Atahualpa’s Letters to the Spanish Monarch, 1610–1613,” The Sixteenth Century Journa…
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November 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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It's up on my blog too emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/c...
November 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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I'm thrilled to see that the special issue of ECS, "Eighteenth-Century Coasts," is finally out today! Check out my essay on coral, and many other fantastic contributions: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
Project MUSE - Eighteenth-Century Studies-Volume 59, Number 1, Fall 2025
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November 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Article by @mgrana.bsky.social about navigating patronage and a career through the polycentric Spanish empire emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/g...
Graña Taborelli, “Juan Lozano Machuca and the Construction of the Global Spanish Monarchy,” SCJ, Spring 2025
Mario Graña Taborelli, “Juan Lozano Machuca and the Construction of the Global Spanish Monarchy in the Sixteenth Century,” The Sixteenth Century Journal 56.1 (2025).
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November 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Erik Alder analyses the Complutensian Polyglot as a book in the SCJ emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/a...
Alder, “Beyond Humanism in the Complutensian Polyglot Bible,” SCJ Fall/Winter 2024
Erik Alder, “Beyond Humanism in the Complutensian Polyglot Bible: Perspectives from Book Culture Studies,” The Sixteenth Century Journal 55.3-4 (2024).
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November 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Articles for us in CLAS emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/c...
CLAR 34.2 (2025)
There are articles for us in the Colonial Latin American Review 34.2 (2025): Yunning Zhang, “Chinos before the Yellow Race: Caterina de San Juan, the Achinada Mystic of New Spain.” José…
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October 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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CFP: PSHAM in Chicago next March 7! emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/c...
CFP: PSHAM, Chicago, March 7, 2026
The Premodern Spanish History Association of the Midwest (PSHAM) is taking place in Chicago this year, graciously hosted by Danny Wasserman-Soler of Lumen Christi. We’ll be meeting on March 7…
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October 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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I've tallied up not all, but the most relevant to us of the panels at the SCSC this weekend @16csociety.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/s...
SCSC, Portland, Oct 30-Nov 1, 2025
The Sixteenth Century Society Conference takes place in Portland from Oct 30 to Nov 1 in 2025. Here are some of the most salient panels for us: Thurs, Oct 30, 8:30 am Virtue, Vice, and Myth in the …
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October 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Articles for us in CLAS emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/c...
CLAR 34.1 (2025)
There are articles for us in the Colonial Latin American Review 34.1 (2025): Britanny Erwin, “‘An Unthinkable Novelty’: Ceremonies, Contests for Power, and the Creation of the Vic…
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October 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Seminar on Monday Oct 27 (available on Zoom): Candido, "Archives, Orality & West Central Voices, 1500-1800" emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/s...
Seminar: Iberian Worlds & Early Globalization – Candido, “Silences or Cacophony?” Oct 27, 2025
Permanent Seminar “Iberian Worlds and Early Globalization,” presents Prof. Mariana P. Candido (Emory University), “Silences or cacophony? Archives, orality, and West Central voices, 15…
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October 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Colonial Latin American Review has a special issue, featuring among others @braislamela.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/c...
CLAR Special Issue: “Motivated Mistranslation,” 33.4 2024
Colonial Latin American Review 33.4 (2024): Introduction: “‘Motivated mistranslation’: exploring translation practices in colonial contexts,” Flora Cassen and Stephanie L. K…
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October 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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New book on evidence, crime, and forensics that has some chapters for us, including one by @jodicampbell.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/n...
New Book: Homza & Scott, Evidence, Crime & Forensics
There are book chapters for us in Evidence, Crime, and Forensics in the Early Modern Mediterranean, Lu Ann Homza and Amanda L. Scott, eds (Routledge, 2026). 1, “On the Inquisition in Spain,&#…
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October 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Can I tempt you for a little history snack? Come find out about George III and how food played a role in his construction of masculinity. Spoiler: his masculinity was about so much more than the meat we associate with modern manliness. (He loved spinach and eggs.)
historicaljnl.bsky.social The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · Oct 20
📣Out now on #firstview!

Rachel Rich, Lisa Wynne Smith (@historybeagle.bsky.social), Sarah Fox (@sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social) & Adam Crymble (@adamcrymble.bsky.social) on 'Self-Fashioning, Food, and Masculinity in George III’s Monarchy'

#FoodHistory 18thc 🥧🥦🍞🗃️

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George III was a family man, a modest eater, and a thoughtful ruler who wrote about the big questions of the day, from royal sovereignty to the best methods of agriculture to feed a modern nation. His writings provide a glimpse of his version of monarchy, which placed him at the head of a national family, where he embodied the habits of self-regulation and temperance in keeping with the sensibilities of late eighteenth-century manhood. This article brings together George’s meals and his essays, considering the histories of food, masculinity, and self-fashioning, to argue that George was a monarch who embodied a new form of masculinity, as marked by his agricultural interests and insistence on a modest diet. His eating habits, along with his intellectual interests and public persona, bring us to the intersection between the private man and the public monarch. Drawing on newly digitized data, alongside contemporary caricatures and descriptions, and George’s own writing, we argue that moderation was central to George’s creation of an image that appealed to the emerging British nation of the late eighteenth century; food was central to this image, highlighting both his masculine self-control and his ability to be useful to the nation.
October 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM