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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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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · Nov 12

My book came out! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Ambivalent Pleasures by Scott K. Taylor | Hardcover | Cornell University Press

Ambivalent Pleasures explores how Europeans wrestled with the novel experience of consuming substances that could alter moods and become addictive. During the early modern period, psychotropic drugs.....

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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 4h

Sam García reviews An Invisible Thread: Heresy, Mass Conversions, and the Inquisition in the Kingdom of Castile emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/g...

García Reviews Pastore in TMR, 2025

Samuel J. García reviews Stefania Pastore, An Invisible Thread, in The Medieval Review, 2025.

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 1d

I’d heard so much praise for this book and finally found time to read it. It’s a fascinating read that pushes us to reconsider the Eurocentric nature of Marxist accounts of production that often erase the history of medieval slavery.

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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 1d

New book by Pablo Acosta García exploring the collective creation of knowledge by the nuns surrounding Juana de la Cruz emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/n...

New Book: Acosta García, The Visionary Preaching of Juana de la Cruz

Pablo Acosta García, The Visionary Preaching of Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534): Ritual, Revelation, and Collective Writing (Brill, 2025).

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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 2d

New edited collection about the Jesuits College in Lisbon, featuring a chapter by @lbrockey.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/n...

New Book: Santo Antão, Salomoni, Giurgevich, & Leitão

Santo Antão: The Jesuit College in Lisbon and Its History, David Salomoni, Luana Giurgevich, and Henrique Leitão, eds (Brill, 2025). Introduction: Why Santo Antão?, Henrique Leitão, Luana Giurgevic…

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Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social · 2d

As you dig out your chunky knitwear from the back of the draw, I know you are wondering: 'How did people prepare for winter 400 years ago?'

Read today's post to find out (and whet your appetite for our new book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England)

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The Experience of Work in Early Modern England I: Winter is Coming

This post is part of a series that marks the publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by monster head Mark Hailwood, along with Jane Whittle, Hannah Ro…

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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 3d

New collection about the Morisco diaspora edited by Mercedes García-Arenal & @gerardwiegers.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/n...

New Book: Morisco Diaspora & Morisco Networks, García-Arenal & Weigers, eds

The Morisco Diaspora and the Morisco Networks across the Mediterranean, Mercedes García-Arenal and Gerard A. Wiegers, eds (Brill, 2025). hapter 1 After the Expulsion: Morisco Networks and Agen…

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 5d

🗃 Here's a link to the book:
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The Invention of Rum – Penn Press

A complex history of rum, from its production to its consumption, and from its origins in the Caribbean to its impact on the Atlantic world It was strong. It...

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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 6d

New collection of essays about the interplay between law and local circumstances emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/n...

New Book: Ownerships Regimes in the Iberian World, Bastias Saavedra

Ownership Regimes in the Iberian World (1500-1850), Manuel Bastias Saavedra, ed. (Brill 2025).

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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 8d

New book by @rociomorcab.bsky.social on the Bourbon reform of the Caribbean postal service emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/n...

New Book, Moreno Cabanillas, Caribbean Letters

Rocio Moreno Cabanillas, Caribbean Letters: The Circulation of Information in the Spanish Monarchy during the Bourbon Reforms (Brill, 2024).

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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 9d

Julia Vázquez explores Velázquez's career as curator of the Habsburg art collection emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/n...

New Book: Vázquez, Velázquez, Painter & Curator

Julia Vázquez, Velázquez, Painter & Curator (Brill, 2025).

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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 10d

Happy #NationalCoffeeDay! We're celebrating by spotlighting Michelle McDonald's meticulously researched, must-read new book COFFEE NATION, which explores how coffee tied the economic future of the early United States to the wider Atlantic world.

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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 10d

Stefania Pastore with a new book about the Inquisition's first decades emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/n...

New Book: Pastore, An Invisible Thread

Stefania Pastore, An Invisible Thread: Heresy, Mass Conversions, and the Inquisition in the Kingdom of Castile (1449-1559) (Brill, 2024).

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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 11d

I can’t wait - finishing up Britain at Bay right now - best book I’ve read in a while!

Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 12d

I just do not run if there’s a possibility of ice (from MN originally, lived in Albany 11 years). Not worth it. Just take a break for a few weeks.

Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 12d

Kukoc was fine; it’s Jerry Krause in hell.

Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 12d

If you distill Rodman, he’s a Piston.

Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 14d

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Thirst for Wine and War, A | McGill-Queen’s University Press

McGill-Queen’s University Press

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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 15d

New book by Brendan McMahon on iridescence - eg silk, hummingbirds, seashells - in art and thought in the early modern Spanish world emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/n...

New Book: McMahon, Iridescence & the Image

Brendan C. McMahon, Iridescence and the Image: Material Thinking in the Early Modern Spanish World (Penn State, 2025).

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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 16d

New book featuring ephemeral literature in the Iberian world emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/c...

Chapters in Cultures of the Popular in the Modern Hispanic World

There are some chapters for us in Cultures of the Popular in the Modern Hispanic World, Alison Sinclair, ed. (Boydell & Brewer, 2024). 1. “No solo vulgo: sobre los públicos de la literatu…

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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 17d

New collection of articles about women traveling across the Spanish empire emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/e...

Edited Collection: Early Modern Women’s Mobility, Authority, & Agency, Cruz & Franganillo Álvarez

Early Modern Women’s Mobility, Authority, and Agency across the Spanish Empire, Anne Cruz, Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez, eds (Amsterdam UP, 2024). “Introduction: Early Modern Women’s M…

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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 18d

Ah yes, the fundamentals, aka stuff you don't really have to teach to NFL players.

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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 20d

First post of the new academic year and it's a good one: JOBS! There are THREE fixed-term research jobs in @kingshistory.bsky.social attached to my colleague Francisco Bethencourt's new ERC project on the Visual and Material Culture of New Christians. Please circulate!

#EarlyModern 🗃️

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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 21d

New book about every-day witchcraft in Navarre by Rochelle Rojas emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/n...

New Book: Rojas, Bad Christians & Hanging Toads

Rochelle Rojas, Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: Witch Crafting in Northern Spain, 1525-1675 (Cornell, 2025).

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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 22d

New book by Kallendorf exploring emotions in Golden Age literature emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/n...

New Book: Kallendorf, Perilous Passions

Hillaire Kallendorf, Perilous Passions: Ethics and Emotions in Early Modern Spain (University of Toronto Press, 2024).

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Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 23d

Book chapters on the role of images in evangelization emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/e...

Edited Collection: Eloquent Images

Eloquent Images: Evangelisation, Conversion and Propaganda in the Global World of the Early Modern Period, Giuseppe Capriotti, Pierre-Antoine Fabre, & Sabina Pavone, eds (Leuven University Pres…

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