Monograph: Juan de Mariana and Early Modern Spanish Political Thought
http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?
page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=7070&edition_id=7602
Hispanic Baroque Project: http://www.hispanicbaroque.ca/ and http://baroque-
identities.mcgill.ca/
Cultures of Political Counsel Project:
http://www.liv.ac.uk/history/research/cultures_of_counsel/index.htm
Negotiating and Imagining Power in the Early Modern Hispanic World
A One-Day Symposium at the School of History, University of Liverpool
The Boardroom, Wednesday, 19 November 2008, 10 – 5pm
This one-day-symposium will interest scholars from a wide range of disciplines
within Early Modern and Religious Studies as well as Iberian and Latin-American
studies. Speakers will investigate some of the diverse ways in which power
was imagined, negotiated and perceived in the early modern Hispanic world
and beyond. A particular emphasis will be on the place of religion in early
modern Hispanic political debate, conflict and identity.
10:00 Coffee and Welcome (Arthur West Room)
10:30 Dr. Glyn Redworth (Manchester): ‘Imagining Power: Holy Relics in the
Politics of Early Modern Spain.’
11:30 Dr. Fernando Cervantes (Bristol): ‘Unity in Diversity: the Ties of Religious
Culture in the Early Modern Hispanic World’
12:30 Lunch (Arthur West Room)
14:00 Dr. Harald E. Braun (Liverpool): ‘Bookish Guidance for Pious Kings:
Negotiating the Treacherous Waters of Politics in El governador christiano’
15:00 Dr. Alexander Samson (UCL): 'Imagining the Hispanic World in Early
Modern
England’
16:00 Coffee and Concluding Discussion
This event is jointly hosted by the Early Modern European Research Group and
the Rethinking the Iberian Atlantic and Cultures of Political Counsel Research
Clusters at Liverpool. We gratefully acknowledge the support from our sponsor,
the School of History, University of LiverpooL (http://www.liv.ac.uk/history/)
and the Research Institute for Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool
(http://www.liv.ac.uk/rilas/index.htm).
If you wish to attend (also indicating whether you would like to join us for
lunch and/or dinner), please contact Dr. Harald E. Braun ([log in to unmask])
or 0151-7942381.
Speakers
Harald Braun is Lecturer in European History at the University of Liverpool. He
is a historian of political thought with a particular interest in late medieval and
early modern Spain and the Americas. He is the author of Juan de Mariana and
Early Modern Spanish Political Thought (Ashgate, 2007) and co-edited (with
Edward Vallance) Contexts of Conscience in the Early Modern World (Palgrave-
Macmillan, 2004). He is currently co-editing special issues on The Renaissance
Conscience (for Renaissance Studies) and on the Atlantic as a conceptual
framework for the interdisciplinary study of the Iberian world.
Fernando Cervantes is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Bristol. He
specialises in the intellectual, cultural and religious history of early modern
Spain and Spanish America. He is the author of The Devil in the New World:
the Impact of Diabolism in New Spain (1994) and co-editor of Spiritual
Encounters: Interactions between Christianity and Native Religions in Colonial
America (1999). With Andrew Redden he is currently completing The Celestial
and the Fallen: Angels and Demons in the Hispanic World and, as co-editor,
Angels, Demons and the New World.
Glyn Redworth read history at Cambridge and took a doctorate in Tudor history
at Oxford. He is a senior lecturer at the University of Manchester, and is
currently the holder of the British-Hispanic Foundation Chair at the
Complutense University in Madrid. Among his publications are The Prince and
the Infanta: The Cultural Politics of the Spanish Match and, in September
2008, The She-Apostle: The extraordinary Life and Death of Luisa de Carvajal,
published by Oxford University Press.
Alexander Samson lectures in Spanish Golden Age literature, culture and
history and is the editor of a volume on The Spanish Match: Prince Charles’s
Journey to Madrid, 1623 (Ashgate, 2006), as well as publishing articles on
among other topics the marriage of Philip II and Mary Tudor, historiography
and royal chroniclers in 16th century Spain, Lope de Vega, firearms, Diego
Hurtado de Mendoza and Cervantes. He has just co-edited A Companion to
Lope de Vega for Tamesis and his first book Mary Tudor and the Habsburg
Marriage: England and Spain 1553 – 1557 is due later this year. His research
interests include intercultural relations and translation between Spain and
England from 1500 to 1640, European festival texts, Cervantes, the Habsburg
empire under Charles V, and New World prose narrative.
