Alistair Malcolm - Happy families and well-behaved aristocrats? Elite society in seventeenth-century Madrid
Wednesday 19 May (Week 4), 3:30-5pm
Held via Zoom
Alistair Malcolm is Lecturer in History at the University of Limerick. A historian of the early modern Spanish culture, diplomacy, and political society, his current project is about Spanish policy covering the middle decades of the seventeenth century that takes the views and actions of the count of Peñaranda—one of the most important ministers of Philip IV and Carlos II—as its central focus. His publications include the book Royal Favouritism and the Governing Elite of the Spanish Monarchy, 1640–1665 (2017).