Karoline Cook - Claiming nobility in the 'Monarquía Hispánica': Local families and the search for status during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Thursday 27 February 2020 (Week 6), 11.15am
Rector's Drawing Room, Exeter College, Turl Street
Karoline P. Cook is Lecturer in History at the Atlantic World at Royal Holloway, University of London and Visiting Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford in Hilary Term 2020. Her research explores the interconnections between Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds, with a specific focus on Moriscos and the Spanish Empire, and the intersection between religious identity, race, and nation. Her publications include the book Forbidden Passages: Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America (2016).
