Readings
Primary source: ‘Memorial y relación a Su Magestad’ (1625), in Seville, Archivo General de Indias, Patronato, 223, R. 8, doc. 1 (available online here)
Jorge Flores and Giuseppe Marcocci, ‘Killing Images: Iconoclasm and the Art of Political Insult in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Portuguese India’, Itinerario 42, 3 (2018): 461-489 (available online here)
Adrian Masters, We, the King: Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth Century Spanish New World (2023), 47-77 (Ch. 1: ‘Paper Ceremonies for a Global Empire’) (available online here)
J. H. Elliott, The Revolt of the Catalans: A Study in the Decline of Spain (1598-1640) (1963), 273-304 (Ch. 10: ‘The Struggle with the City’)
Please email iberian@history.ox.ac.uk for electronic copies of the readings.
