Bøker i Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475-1755-serien

An interdisciplinary exploration of white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s.

Investigates the links between religion, empire, and the study of nature across the Spanish world during a period of Iberian global expansion, showing how geographies, cosmographies, and natural history were used to advance multiple Catholic goals.

Investigates an incident of holy relic theft in Rome, the lengthy legal case that followed it, and the larger questions that surrounded saints' remains in seventeenth-century Catholic Europe.