The convenors of the Iberian History Seminar are pleased to announce the termcard for Hilary 2020. The programme reflects the seminar's aim to range widely across the medieval and early modern history of the Iberian peninsula and beyond, with world-leading scholars presenting and discussing cutting-edge research.
This term the seminar will cover Peninsular, European and global aspects of the Iberian past, through the perspectives of commercial, political and cultural history. We begin with a paper from Regina Grafe, Head of the Department of History at the European University Institute, discussing the origins of the trade in African slaves in Spanish America. In week 4, José Manuel Nieto Soria will share his expertise on the political culture of pactismo and conflict in late medieval Castile. Continuing on from the theme of political culture, in week 6 Karoline Cook will speak on the negotiation of status and claiming nobility in the Spanish Monarchy of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The series will conclude in week 8 with Violet Soen's discussion of Philip II and the Dutch revolt of 1568–1648.
After the formal part of the seminar, all participants are warmly invited to continue the discussion over lunch in the Exeter College Hall. There is a of charge £7.50, payable in cash only.
