Scott K Taylor
I study early modern Europe and the history of drugs & alcohol at the University of Kentucky. I post about new scholarship on early modern Spain at emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com
- Article in The Americas that unveils indigenous intellectual labor in the making of the Braidense Lectionary emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/m...
- Elena Deanda-Camacho asserts the centrality of Spanish-language women in the Enlightenment emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/d...
- John Giblin shows how Augustin de Rojas positioned himself as a nobleman in his writing, while Juan Pablo Dominguez explores Feijoo's ambivalence about the Inquisition and the Enlightenment emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/a...
- Abigail Agresta complicates our understanding of plague quarantine as a "modern" innovation, exploring how towns mistrusted others' statements of health and lied about their own emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/tag/abigail-...
- Jessica Maratsos writing about mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell, and lacquer caskets from east Asia that became reliquaries in Iberia emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/m...
- Íñigo Ena Sanjuán gives us 4 case studies detailing the changing interplay between corruption and reform in the 18th century emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/s...
- Articles in a special issue on Blackness in Medieval Iberia, ed. by Nicholas Jones and featuring @mourelle.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/s...
- Caroline Cunill explains how Mayan caciques adopted religious language about poverty for legal purposes emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/c...
- @fsoyer.bsky.social with a new article in the Journal of the History of Sexuality utpress.utexas.edu/journals/jou...
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- Reixach Sala explores urban measures taken for public health emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/r...
- Idan Sherer looks at a soldier's memoir that has been used to examine military history and instead asks, why did he write it? emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/s...
- Thomas Devaney explains how the tale of how a Jaén shrine began shifted over time to suit contemporary needs emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/d...
- Very sad to see what must be Katie Harris's last published article at the SCJ emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/12/a...
- Special issue of the Colonial Latin American Review on women's mobility across the Atlantic emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/09/s...
- Alan Durston explores a Spanish grammar in the Philippines to the worldwide spread of Spanish, and Claire Gilbert connects 18th cent Arabic studies in Iberia to anxieties over national identity and past emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/a...
- New article in RQ where @mackenziecooley.bsky.social uses the relaciones geograficas so show how the Columbian Exchange was, at a local level, uneven and idiosyncratic emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/c...
- Articles in the RQ: Aguilera-López explores the meanings of a royal flagship galley, and @shnuska.bsky.social reconstructs a visual explainer that the English Catholics in Seville made to compare Henry II & Henry VIII's attacks on the church emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/a...
- In last summer's Ren Quarterly, @kbgraubart.bsky.social has an article on using a close reading of legal archives to find the voices of Black women, and Brendan McMahon explains a 17th cent visual joke at court in Madrid emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/g...
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- Reposted by Scott K TaylorWhat an honor to be interviewed by the @timesofindianews.bsky.social about the history of pearls #earlymodern #envhist timesofindia.indiatimes.com/from-rupture...
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- @smunozar.bsky.social explores the tensions created by Spanish authorities trying to keep local indigenous power structures intact while proselytizing them emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/m...
- Antonio Rueda explores the creation of Spanish stereotypes about the Romani in 16th cent Spanish drama emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/r...
- New book by @luisalmenarfdez.bsky.social on the economic impact of the growing materiality of food for Valencian peasants emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/n...
- Last day to apply to a VAP at the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/v...
- Apply for this opportunity to give grad students/early professionals hands-on training in Madrid's archives and libraries! emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/a...
- Molly Borowitz explores the tensions Jesuits felt, presented with guinea pigs to eat, between accommodation & preserving their own culture emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/b...
- Luís Afonso explains that Chinese porcelain was pretty common in 16th cent Iberia, when it was still a luxury rarity in backwaters like France, England, and the Netherlands emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/a...
- Reposted by Scott K TaylorWeird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world?
- “we estimate employment-weighted share of Americans using AI at work has fallen by a percentage point & now sits at 11%. Adoption has fallen sharply at the largest businesses, those employing +250 people. 3 yrs into the genAI wave, demand looks surprisingly flimsy” www.economist.com/finance-and-...
- Roger Crowley's follow-up to "Conquerors" charts the fight between the Portuguese & Spanish for the East Indies emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/n...
- Bethany Aram explores gender and ethnicity in colonial Panama emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/n...
- New work by Ricardo Padrón on material culture and the Spanish Pacific emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/p...
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- Magdalena Sánchez's new book about the daughter of Philip II and Duchess of Savoy is out emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/n...
- Stacey Parker Aronson looking at the meaning of a pig in a pliego suelto emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/a...
- Luis Corteguera & Irene Olivares explore the metaphor of king as mother in @jwomenshistory.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/c...
- Articles about the difficulties of foreign merchants coming into 18th cent Peru and bigamy and slavery in Brazil in the @hahr21.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/t...
- Special issue of @hahr21.bsky.social on colonial infrastructure, featuring boundary markers, wheat, letters, and more letters emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/h...
- Two articles in last May's @hahr21.bsky.social, one on the apparition of the Virgin in the Tzeltal Revolt, another on clandestine gold smelting in New Granada emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/a...
- @dhbuffalo.bsky.social with an op ed in the NYT attacking the administration for using the hoary myth of a pure America attacked by an invasion of drugs brought by non-white outsiders www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
- Mercado-Montero investigates indigenous Antilles residents taking captives and making space for themselves as the Spanish try to control the Caribbean in @hahr21.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/m...
- A group of authors posit a new approach to studying the ornamentation of churches in the Spanish Atlantic world emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/g...
- José Carlos de la Puente Luna finds indigenous Andean people using the colonial land inspection for their own purposes emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/d...
- Another article by @hectorlinares.bsky.social - this one on an escaped enslaved man from Sierra Leone who managed, via a royal petition, to get his former enslaver to pay him a pension in recognition of his military service emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/l...
