Scott K Taylor

Here we go: Critical Race Studies at Holy Cross College (Worcester)

López Salas & Fernández Travieso, “Fiesta pública en el Renacimiento y arquitectura efímera,” BSVS 8.2 (2024) Estefanía López Salas and Carlota Fernández Travieso, “Relaciones de sucesos: fiesta pública en el Renacimiento y arquitectura efímera,” Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies 8.2 (2024).…

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This says a lot more about the discipline of Political Science than it does about chatbots

Wilson-Lee Reviews Green, The Heretic of Cacheu in the TLS, Feb 20, 2026 Edward Wilson-Lee, “Crispina’s Day in Court,” Times Literary Supplement No. 6399, February 20, 2026.

Review of Green's new book in the TLS emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/03/03/w...

New Book: Green, The Heretic of Cacheu Toby Green, The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa (Chicago, 2025).

Toby Green's new book uses Inquisition records to explore a slave-trading port and a powerful woman slave trader emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/27/n...

CHM Special Issue:  La experiencia del cautiverio en las fronteras de la Monarquía Hispánica, 50.2 (2025) Cuadernos de Historia Moderna, Monográfico: La experiencia del cautiverio en las fronteras de la Monarquía Hispánica, siglos XVI al XVIII, 50.2 (2025): Introducción: recordar el cautiverio y pensar…

Special issue of CHM on captivity along the borderlands of Spain's empire emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/26/c...

Articles in the CHM, 2025 #1 Cuadernos de Historia Moderna 50.1 (2025): Carlos Hugo Zayas González and Ana Lorena Carrillo Padilla, “Discurso ejemplar, memoria e identidad criolla en dos obras biográficas de Juan Antonio…

More articles from Madrid emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/25/a...

Special Issue: El mercado de la opinión pública en los conflictos de la Monarquía Hispánica en Italia, “CHM 2024, #2 Monográfico: El mercado de la opinión pública en los conflictos de la Monarquía Hispánica en Italia (siglos XVI-XVII), Cuadernos de Historia Moderna 49.2 (2024): Introducción, F. Javier Álvarez Gar…

Special issue of the Cuadernos de Historia Moderna about public opinion in the wars of Spain in Italy emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/24/s...

Applying for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Postdoctoral Fellowship – Iberian Worlds & Early Globalization, Feb 26, 2026 On Thursday February 26, at 4:00 pm (CEST), it will take place a new edition of the Permanent Seminar “Iberian Worlds and Early Globalization”. In this session entitled “A practical approach to the…

Info on applying to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Spragins & Cairns, “Following the Blood Lines in María de Zayas’s ‘El traidor contra su sangre,'” EMW, Spring 2025 Elizabeth Spragins and Emily Colbert Cairns, “Following the Bloodlines in María de Zayas’s ‘El traidor contra su sangre,'” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 19.2 (2…

@dr-sprockets.bsky.social & Emily Colbert Cairns explore Zayas's writing about honor & limpieza de sangre in @emwjournal.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/s...

Articles in Diechiocho, Fall 2025 Diechiocho 48.2 (2025): Noelia López-Souto, “Las bibliotecas de José Nicolás de Azara: Catálogo desde su correspondencia con Giambattista Bodoni.” Felipe Julián Mosquera Blanco, “…

Lots of good stuff in the latest issue of Diechiocho emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/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…

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...

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…

Lu Ann Homza and collaborators have put out the Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Inquisition! emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/t...

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,”…

@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...

New Book: Bamford, Unprinted Heather Bamford, Unprinted: Reading and Meaning in Early Modern Iberia (Toronto, 2026).

Heather Bamford's new book uses unpublished manuscripts to explore the practice of reading emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/n...

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).

Article in The Americas that unveils indigenous intellectual labor in the making of the Braidense Lectionary emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/m...

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).

Elena Deanda-Camacho asserts the centrality of Spanish-language women in the Enlightenment emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/d...

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, &#…

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...

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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-...

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).

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...

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).

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...

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…

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...

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…

Caroline Cunill explains how Mayan caciques adopted religious language about poverty for legal purposes emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/c...

Journal of the History of Sexuality

@fsoyer.bsky.social with a new article in the Journal of the History of Sexuality utpress.utexas.edu/journals/jou...

L’hermafrodita catalana François Soyer revela la vida de Maria Duran, natural de Prullans, que va tenir una vida sensacional al segle XVIII

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, “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).

Reixach Sala explores urban measures taken for public health emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/r...

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…

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...

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).

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...

I can’t make it, but I’m so glad you two are doing that. Thank you!

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…

Very sad to see what must be Katie Harris's last published article at the SCJ emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/12/a...