Scott K Taylor
@scottktaylor.bsky.social
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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Scott K Taylor
@scottktaylor.bsky.social
· Oct 29
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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CFP: PSHAM in Chicago next March 7! emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/c...
Letters between the Princess of Asturia and the Austrian Empress during the Napoleonic Wars, and exiled Jesuits playwrights in Diechiocho emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/a...
Articles in Diechiocho, Spring 2025
Diechiocho 48.1 (2025): César Esponda de la Campa, “De Aranjuez a Viena: Cartas de María Antonia de Nápoles, princesa de Asturias, a su hermana María Teresa, emperatriz del Sacro Imperio Roma…
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February 16, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Letters between the Princess of Asturia and the Austrian Empress during the Napoleonic Wars, and exiled Jesuits playwrights in Diechiocho emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/a...
Lu Ann Homza and collaborators have put out the Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Inquisition! emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/t...
The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Inquisition, ed. Homza
The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Inquisition, Lu Ann Homza, ed. (Cambridge, 2025). 1.Procedures and Goals 2. Inquisitorial Careers, Kimberly Lynn 3. Pursuing Life Stories: Inquisitors and Sus…
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February 13, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Lu Ann Homza and collaborators have put out the Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Inquisition! emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/t...
@historylloyd.bsky.social & Megan Crutcher write about Black sailors contesting the homogenizing racial categories into which Portuguese officials tried to slot them emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/c...
Crutcher & Belton, “Tracking Racialization of Maritime Professions in the 18th-Cent Portuguese Empire,” JSH Winter, 2025
Megan Crutcher and Lloyd Belton, “‘They Do Not Have Physiognomies of Their Own’: Tracking Racialization of Maritime Professions in the Eighteenth-Century Portuguese Empire,”…
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February 12, 2026 at 1:30 PM
@historylloyd.bsky.social & Megan Crutcher write about Black sailors contesting the homogenizing racial categories into which Portuguese officials tried to slot them emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/c...
Heather Bamford's new book uses unpublished manuscripts to explore the practice of reading emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/n...
New Book: Bamford, Unprinted
Heather Bamford, Unprinted: Reading and Meaning in Early Modern Iberia (Toronto, 2026).
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February 11, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Heather Bamford's new book uses unpublished manuscripts to explore the practice of reading emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/n...
Article in The Americas that unveils indigenous intellectual labor in the making of the Braidense Lectionary emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/m...
Mundy, Leeming, & Haude, “Indigenous Knowledge & Christian Texts in the Braidense Lectionary,” Americas, April 2025
Barbara E. Mundy, Ben Leeming, and Mary Elizabeth Haude, “The Material Word: Indigenous Knowledge and Christian Texts in the Braidense Lectionary,” The Americas 82.2 (2025).
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February 5, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Article in The Americas that unveils indigenous intellectual labor in the making of the Braidense Lectionary emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/m...
Elena Deanda-Camacho asserts the centrality of Spanish-language women in the Enlightenment emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/d...
Deanda-Camacho, “Decolonizing the Gaze in the Study of 18th-Century Spanish & Spanish American Women,” ECS, Winter 2026
Elena Deanda-Camacho, “Decolonizing the Gaze in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Spanish and Spanish American Women,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 59.2 (2026).
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February 4, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Elena Deanda-Camacho asserts the centrality of Spanish-language women in the Enlightenment emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/d...
John Giblin shows how Augustin de Rojas positioned himself as a nobleman in his writing, while Juan Pablo Dominguez explores Feijoo's ambivalence about the Inquisition and the Enlightenment emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/a...
Articles in the BSS 102.7, 2025
Bulletin of Spanish Studies 102.7 (2025): John Giblin, “Contested Nobility: Politics, Astrology, Religion and Geography in Agustín de Rojas’ El buen repúblico.” Juan Pablo Domínguez, &#…
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February 3, 2026 at 1:41 PM
John Giblin shows how Augustin de Rojas positioned himself as a nobleman in his writing, while Juan Pablo Dominguez explores Feijoo's ambivalence about the Inquisition and the Enlightenment emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/a...
Abigail Agresta complicates our understanding of plague quarantine as a "modern" innovation, exploring how towns mistrusted others' statements of health and lied about their own emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/tag/abigail-...
Abigail Agresta – EM Spanish History Notes
Posts about Abigail Agresta written by emspanishhistorynotes
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February 2, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Abigail Agresta complicates our understanding of plague quarantine as a "modern" innovation, exploring how towns mistrusted others' statements of health and lied about their own emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/tag/abigail-...
Jessica Maratsos writing about mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell, and lacquer caskets from east Asia that became reliquaries in Iberia emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/m...
Maratsos, “The Mobility of Early Modern Reliquaries,” RS Nov 2025
Jessica Maratsos, “From Asia to Iberia: The Mobility of Early Modern Reliquaries,” Renaissance Studies 39.5 (2025).
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January 30, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Jessica Maratsos writing about mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell, and lacquer caskets from east Asia that became reliquaries in Iberia emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/m...
Íñigo Ena Sanjuán gives us 4 case studies detailing the changing interplay between corruption and reform in the 18th century emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/s...
Sanjuán, “Changing Perceptions of Corruption & Political Reform in 18th-Century SW Europe,” HJ, Sept 2025
Íñigo Ena Sanjuán, “Corrupture: Changing Perceptions of Corruption and Political Reform in Eighteenth-Century South-Western Europe,” The Historical Journal 68.4 (2025).
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January 29, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Íñigo Ena Sanjuán gives us 4 case studies detailing the changing interplay between corruption and reform in the 18th century emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/s...
Articles in a special issue on Blackness in Medieval Iberia, ed. by Nicholas Jones and featuring @mourelle.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/s...
Special Issue: “Blackness in Medieval Iberia,” La corónica, Fall 2023
There are some articles for us in La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Language, Literatures, and Cultures 52.1 (2023),” Special Issue, Blackness in Medieval Iberia, ed. Nicholas R. Jo…
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January 21, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Articles in a special issue on Blackness in Medieval Iberia, ed. by Nicholas Jones and featuring @mourelle.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/s...
Caroline Cunill explains how Mayan caciques adopted religious language about poverty for legal purposes emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/c...
Cunill, “Defining Oneself as ‘Poor’ & ‘Miserable’ in Two Petitions to the King of Spain Written in Maya Yucatec Language,” QS Aug, 2024
Caroline Cunill, “Defining Oneself as ‘Poor’ and ‘Miserable’ in Two Petitions to the King of Spain Written in Maya Yucatec Language by the Caciques of Yucatan (Sixteen…
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January 20, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Caroline Cunill explains how Mayan caciques adopted religious language about poverty for legal purposes emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/c...
@fsoyer.bsky.social with a new article in the Journal of the History of Sexuality utpress.utexas.edu/journals/jou...
Journal of the History of Sexuality
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January 19, 2026 at 5:56 PM
@fsoyer.bsky.social with a new article in the Journal of the History of Sexuality utpress.utexas.edu/journals/jou...
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Catalan article in the newspaper El Pais about my 2023 book The ‘Catalan Hermaphrodite’ and the Inquisition: Early Modern Sex and Gender on Trial. elpais.com/quadern/2026...
L’hermafrodita catalana
François Soyer revela la vida de Maria Duran, natural de Prullans, que va tenir una vida sensacional al segle XVIII
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January 18, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Catalan article in the newspaper El Pais about my 2023 book The ‘Catalan Hermaphrodite’ and the Inquisition: Early Modern Sex and Gender on Trial. elpais.com/quadern/2026...
Reixach Sala explores urban measures taken for public health emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/r...
Reixach Sala, “Fighting the Plague in the Crown of Aragon,” JMIS 17.2
Albert Reixach Sala, “Fighting the Plague in the Crown of Aragon (Mid-fourteenth to Early Sixteenth Centuries),” Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 17.2 (2025).
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January 16, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Reixach Sala explores urban measures taken for public health emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/r...
Idan Sherer looks at a soldier's memoir that has been used to examine military history and instead asks, why did he write it? emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/s...
Sherer, “The Tratado de las campañas of Martin García Cerezeda,” JMIS 17.1 (2025).
Idan Sherer, “The Tratado de las campañas of Martin García Cerezeda: Military Life Writing and Self-Advancement in the Memoirs of a Sixteenth-Century Spanish Veteran,” Journal of Mediev…
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January 15, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Idan Sherer looks at a soldier's memoir that has been used to examine military history and instead asks, why did he write it? emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/s...
Thomas Devaney explains how the tale of how a Jaén shrine began shifted over time to suit contemporary needs emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/d...
Devaney, “Experience, Narrative, & Identity in Late Medieval and EM Jaén,” JMEMS Jan 2025
Thomas C. Devaney, “Blinded by the Light: Experience, Narrative, and Identity in Late Medieval and Early Modern Jaén,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 55.1 (2025).
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January 13, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Thomas Devaney explains how the tale of how a Jaén shrine began shifted over time to suit contemporary needs emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/d...
Very sad to see what must be Katie Harris's last published article at the SCJ emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/12/a...
Articles in the Winter 2025 SCJ
The Sixteenth Century Journal 56.4 (2025): A. Katie Harris, “Playing at Soldiers: Agustín de Guardiola’s ‘Goose Game, Moralized for the Spirit.'” Próspero Carbonell, “Echoes…
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January 12, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Very sad to see what must be Katie Harris's last published article at the SCJ emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/12/a...
Special issue of the Colonial Latin American Review on women's mobility across the Atlantic emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/09/s...
Special Issue of CLAR: “Female Lives in Motion,” 2025
Female Lives in Motion. Transatlantic Migrations and Mobilities of Women of Color and Spanish Women in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Colonial Latin American Review 34.4 (2025). Sara Vicu…
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January 9, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Special issue of the Colonial Latin American Review on women's mobility across the Atlantic emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/09/s...
Alan Durston explores a Spanish grammar in the Philippines to the worldwide spread of Spanish, and Claire Gilbert connects 18th cent Arabic studies in Iberia to anxieties over national identity and past emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/a...
Articles in H&T, Dec 2025
History and Theory 64.4 (2025): Alan Durston, “Teaching Spanish in the Universal Monarchy: Tomás Pinpin’s Grammar for Tagalogs (1610).” Claire Gilbert, “Dead Letters and Liv…
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January 8, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Alan Durston explores a Spanish grammar in the Philippines to the worldwide spread of Spanish, and Claire Gilbert connects 18th cent Arabic studies in Iberia to anxieties over national identity and past emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/a...
New article in RQ where @mackenziecooley.bsky.social uses the relaciones geograficas so show how the Columbian Exchange was, at a local level, uneven and idiosyncratic emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/c...
Cooley, “A Patchwork Colombian Exchange,” RQ Winter 2025
Mackenzie Cooley, “A Patchwork Columbian Exchange: Ecological Imperialism, Animals, and the Relaciones Geográficas of New Spain,” Renaissance Quarterly 78.4 (2025).
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January 6, 2026 at 6:10 PM
New article in RQ where @mackenziecooley.bsky.social uses the relaciones geograficas so show how the Columbian Exchange was, at a local level, uneven and idiosyncratic emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/c...
Articles in the RQ: Aguilera-López explores the meanings of a royal flagship galley, and @shnuska.bsky.social reconstructs a visual explainer that the English Catholics in Seville made to compare Henry II & Henry VIII's attacks on the church emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/a...
Aguilera-López & Sáez-Hidalgo in the Fall 2025 RQ
Renaissance Quarterly 78.3 (2025): A. Jorge Aguilera-López, “Gian Andrea Doria and His Real: Mediterranean Hegemony, Shipbuilding Complexities, and the Construction of the New Spanish Flagshi…
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January 5, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Articles in the RQ: Aguilera-López explores the meanings of a royal flagship galley, and @shnuska.bsky.social reconstructs a visual explainer that the English Catholics in Seville made to compare Henry II & Henry VIII's attacks on the church emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/a...
In last summer's Ren Quarterly, @kbgraubart.bsky.social has an article on using a close reading of legal archives to find the voices of Black women, and Brendan McMahon explains a 17th cent visual joke at court in Madrid emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/g...
Graubert & McMahon in RQ, Summer 2025
Renaissance Quarterly 78.2 (2025): Karen B. Graubart, “Dialogic Depositions: Finding Black Women’s Presence in Spanish Colonial Legal Records.” Brendan C. McMahon, “Of Sunfl…
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January 2, 2026 at 9:02 PM
In last summer's Ren Quarterly, @kbgraubart.bsky.social has an article on using a close reading of legal archives to find the voices of Black women, and Brendan McMahon explains a 17th cent visual joke at court in Madrid emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/g...
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For new friends: I'm a historian who writes about the religious cultures and social movements of early modern Europe, mainly, 1500-1800, especially the Holy Roman Empire. Co-PI in the "Shared Churches Project." Faculty union activist. My latest:
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The Empire’s Reformations
The Empire's Reformations provides a concise overview of reform movements in 16th-century Germany that gave birth to the modern division of western Christianity…
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November 21, 2024 at 4:27 PM
For new friends: I'm a historian who writes about the religious cultures and social movements of early modern Europe, mainly, 1500-1800, especially the Holy Roman Empire. Co-PI in the "Shared Churches Project." Faculty union activist. My latest:
www.bloomsbury.com/us/empires-r...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/empires-r...
Reposted by Scott K Taylor
What an honor to be interviewed by the @timesofindianews.bsky.social about the history of pearls #earlymodern #envhist
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‘From ruptured eardrums to ravaged seas, empire to agency, pearls hold our history’ - The Times of India
World News: Molly Warsh is Associate Professor of World History at the University of Pittsburgh. Speaking with Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke , she discusses th.
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December 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
What an honor to be interviewed by the @timesofindianews.bsky.social about the history of pearls #earlymodern #envhist
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/from-rupture...
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