Program 37th Annual Meeting The Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical
Studies
Radisson Plaza, Lexington, Kentucky, Co-Hosted by the
University of Kentucky and Eastern Kentucky University April 6-9, 2006
Special thanks to the following
institutional sponsors: Office of the Executive Vice President for
Research (University of Kentucky); College of Arts and Sciences
(Eastern Kentucky University); College of Arts and Sciences (University
of Kentucky); Department of History (Eastern Kentucky University);
Department of History (University of Kentucky)
5 PM - 8 PM: REGISTRATION, Daniel
Boone Room III 7PM - 9 PM: OPENING
RECEPTION, window box reception area
FRIDAY,
APRIL 7
8:00 - 5:00 pm, registration and book
exhibit, Daniel Boone Room III
8:30-10:15
am
#1. Intellectual and Cultural
History in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic World (Daniel
Boone Room II) Chair:
Valentina Tikoff, DePaulUniversity “Geopolitical Rivalry
and
Patterns of Intellectual-Cultural Transmission in the
Eighteenth-Century
Spanish Atlantic World,” Gabriel
Paquette, WesleyanUniversity
“Can a Nude be a
History
Painting? Mariano Fortuny y Marsal’s 1861 Odalisca,”
Michelle Swindell, University
of Texas at Dallas “Intelectuales,
nación, y
poder en el fin de siglo español,” Carlos Barriuso, University
of Missouri, Columbia Comment:
Valentina Tikoff, DePaulUniversity #2. Accidental Aesthetics? Tropes
of Modernity in the Spanish Political Essay (Breckinridge Room) Chair:
Brian Dendle, University
of Kentucky “Entre el tropo y la
tropa.
Escritura de Guerra, campo literario y conocimiento histórico en
Diario de un testigo de la Guerra de Africa,”
Nil Santiáñez-Tió,
Saint LouisUniversity “Competing Discourses
of
Modernity in Arturo Soria y Mata’s La
Ciudad Lineal,” Susan Larson,
University
of Kentucky
“The Politics of Irony
in
Ángel Ganivet’s Cartas
finlandesas,” David Bird,
University
of Kentucky
Comment:
the audience
#3. Medicine, Art, and Religion in
Early Modern Spain (Davis Room) Chair: Marcy Norton, George
Washington University
“The Apothecary’s
Profession:
Between Medicine and the Marketplace,” Michele
L. Clouse, OhioUniversity
“The Art Market in Seville:
1650-1700,”
Duncan Kinkead, independent
scholar
“Fiestas
and Fervor: Religious Life and Catholic Enlightenment in
the Diocese of Barcelona, 1766-1775,”
Andrea J.
Smidt, The OhioStateUniversity
Comment:
the audience
#4.
Political and Social Transformations in the Era of Fernando and
Isabel (Clay Room)
Chair:
Kathleen Kish, San
Diego State University
“Grain Provisioning
and
Accountability: Investigating the Alhóndiga del Pan de Sevilla
(1489),” Rowena
Hernández-Múzquiz, Ohio
Wesleyan University
“Modernidad al final
de la
Edad Media. Indicios de transformaciones sociales en el reinado de los
Reyes
Católicos,” Jorge
Ortuño Molina, University
of California, Los Angeles
“Political Penance in
the Era
of Isabel and Fernando,” Gretchen
Starr-LeBeau, University
of Kentucky Comment:
Kathleen Kish, San
Diego State University 10:30 am -
12:15 pm
#5. Political and Legal History in
Medieval Iberia (Breckinridge Room)
Chair:
David Sefton, Eastern Kentucky
University
“The Alchemy of Proof
in
Medieval Spain
(800-1100),”
Jeffrey Bowman, KenyonCollege “The Seat of her
Power: Valladolid in the Political
Career of Berenguela of Castile
(1180-1246),” Janna Wasilewski,
HarvardUniversity “Los caminos de
peregrinación
a Santiago de Compostela: Algunos ejemplos de fortificaciones que
jalonan estas
vías,” Rosario Valdés
Blanco-Rajoy, Institute
of Galician
Studies “From Prelate to Middle Manager:
Conventual Priors and Operational Reforms in the
DominicanProvince
of Aragon,
1301-1378,”
Michael Vargas, FordhamUniversity Comment:
David Sefton and David Coleman, Eastern
Kentucky
University
#6. Religiosity in the Early Modern
Hispanic World (Clay Room)
Chair:
Ed Behrend-Martinez, Appalachian StateUniversity “The Protestant and
the
Catholic Image,” Eloina Villegas,
University
of Colorado, Boulder
“Making the
Hieronymite Order
at the Escorial,” Timothy Schmitz,
WoffordCollege “Catacomb Relics in
the Early
Modern Hispanic World: Early Results from the Roman Archives,” A. Katie
Harris,
University of California,
Davis Comment:
Ed Behrend-Martinez, Appalachian StateUniversity #7. Legal History in Early Modern
Iberia (Davis Room)
Chair: Renato Barahona,
University of Illinois at Chicago
“A Note on the Trial
Record
of Fray Luis de León,” J.
Michael Fulton, WakeForestUniversity
“Catarina Fernandes:
Witch of
Early Modern Portugal,”
Elizabeth A. Sexton, Ohio
Northern University Comment: Renato
Barahona, University of Illinois at Chicago
#8. Spain in
the Era of the Second Republic
and Franco (Daniel Boone Room II) Chair:
Adrian Shubert, York University
“Workers on the
Catholic Right
in Spain’s SecondRepublic
(1931-1936): The Case of Acción
Obrerista,” Samuel Pierce,
University
of Florida “Facing the Abyss: The
Memories of Red Terror in Franco’s Spain,”
Antonio Cazorla, TrentUniversity
“From Textbooks to
Teachers:
The Control of Primary School Education under Franco and Mussolini,”
Jaclyn
Zanghi-LaPlaca, MarywoodUniversity Comment:
Adrian Shubert, York University 12:15-1:30 pm: Lunch
MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR SSPHS
1:30-3:15
pm
#9. Homenaje for William Callahan (Daniel Boone Room II) Chair: Adrian Shubert,
York University
Speakers: Jesus Cruz, the
University of Delaware; Julio de la
Cueva, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha; Antonio Cazorla, Trent University Respondent: William Callahan,
University of Toronto
#10.
Political and Economic Early
Modern History in Portugal:
New Topics and Directions
(Breckinridge Room) Chair: Liam Brockey, Princeton
University
“Politics, Factions,
and
Decision-Making in the late 17th c. Portuguese Court,” Pedro Cardim,
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
“Golden Flows and the
Principal-Agent Problem in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century.”
Leonor
Freire Costa, TechnicalUniversity of Lisbon
“An Elite? What did it
mean
to be a Knight of the Portuguese Military Orders in the 17th-18th
Centuries,” Fernanda Olival,
Universidade de Évora
“The Government and
the
Governors of the Portuguese Empire: Hierarchies and Social Selection
Criteria
(1580-1808),” Mafalda Soares da Cunha,
Universidade de Evora, and Nuno
Gonçalo
F. Monteiro, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Lisbon
“Earthly Possessions
of Some
Members of the Portuguese Royal Family: the Significance of Luxury
Objects
(1480-1580),” Isabel dos
Guimarães Sá, Universidade do Minho Comment: Liam Brockey,
Princeton University #11. Power and Identity in Medieval
Iberia (Clay Room) Chair: James D’Emilio, University of SouthFlorida “‘Los judios
todos son del rey:’ the
Origins of Jewish ‘Servitude’ in Medieval Castile (Eleventh to
Thirteenth
Centuries),” Maya Soifer, PrincetonUniversity
“Two Observations Regarding
the Appearance of the Legend of Bernardo del Carpio,” Aaron Moreno, University of California,
Los Angeles
“Insular Monasteries and Insular
Strongholds in Medieval Galicia,” Carlos
Andrés González Paz, Instituto de
Estudios Gallegos “Padre Sarmiento”, Santiago de Compostela “Clerics or Laymen? Gambling,
Fighting, and Fornicating in Fourteenth-Century Catalunya,” Michelle
Armstrong-Partida, University
of Iowa Comment: James D’Emilio, University of SouthFlorida 3:30-5:15 pm
#12.
Holy Women and their
Interpreters in the Early Modern Hispanic World (Breckinridge
Room) Chair: Ronald Surtz, Princeton
University
“Holy Women,
Unholy
Scandal:
The Influence of the Monja de Lisboa in Early Modern Valencia,”
Benjamin
Ehlers, University
of Georgia
“Burying her
Voice:
Protecting
Female Spiritual Autobiography in Counter-Reformation Spain,” Susan Laningham, Tennessee
Technological University
“Touched by
Teresa:
Readers
and their Responses, 1588-1750,” Jodi
Bilinkoff, University of North
Carolina-Greensboro
Comment:
Ronald Surtz, PrincetonUniversity #13.
Politics and Political Culture
in Sixteenth-Century Spain
(Davis Room) Chair:
Ruth MacKay
“Francisco de los
Cobos and
Juan de Valdés: Privanza and
Clientage under Charles V,” Daniel A.
Crews, CentralMissouriStateUniversity
“Imagined
Encounters:
Letters
to the King in Early Modern Spain,”
Luis Corteguera, University
of Kansas
“Alexander
Farnese and
the
Second Entrada in France
(1591-1592): A Reassessment,” Edward
Shannon Tenace, LyonCollege Comment:
Ruth MacKay #14.
Cultural History of
Modern Iberia (Clay Room) Chair: Andrew H. Lee, New York
University
“ ‘El
hombre fino al gusto del día:’
Bourgeois Conduct Ideals in Nineteenth-Century Spain,” Jesus Cruz, University of Delaware
“Sport, Art, and
the
Middle Classes in Early Twentieth-Century Barcelona,”
Andrew McFarland, DrakeUniversity
“Consuming
Fatima:
Mariolatric Impulse in Republican Portugal,
1917-1924,” Paulo S. Polanah,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and StateUniversity Comment: Andrew H. Lee, New York
University
5:30 - 6:30 PM: SSPHS BUSINESS
MEETING (Daniel Boone Room II) 7:00 PM: BANQUET
DINNER (INCLUDED IN REGISTRATION FEE) (Grand Ballroom IV) PLENARY ADDRESS: Adeline Rucquoi,
L’École
des Hautes Etudes
en Sciences Sociales,“Cuius
rex eius religio: ley y religion en la
España medieval”
SATURDAY,
APRIL 8
8:00 -
noon, registration, Daniel Boone Room III
8:00 - 5:00 pm, book exhibit, Daniel
Boone Room III
8:30-10:15 am
#15. Three Faces of Portuguese
Modern Authoritarianism: Variety in Harmony
(Davis Room) Chair:
Helder Adegar Fonseca,
University of Évora “A Pedro
Theotónio Pereira
political and ideological biography: the early years (1920-1939),”
Fernando
Martins, University
of Évora
“Henrique
Tenreiro, an
oligarch of the Portuguese Corporatist System—essay of a political
biography
(1936-1974),” Álvaro Garrido,
University
of Coimbra
“A case in
diplomatic
representation: Portuguese ambassador Ruy Ulrich’s role in foreign
affairs
(1929-1953),” Pedro Faria, University of Oporto Comment:
Helder Adegar Fonseca, University of Évora
#16.
Spain in the Last Years of
Franco and Beyond
(Clay Room) Chair: George Esenwein,
University of Florida
“The Turning Point of
Science
in Spain: A Glimpse
of the
Final Francoist Period (1969-1975),” Joseph
Parello, VanderbiltUniversity
“ ‘Engineers in
Skirts:’
Professional Women in Spain
in the 1960s and 1970s,” Jessica
Davidson, JamesMadisonUniversity
“From a Castle to a
Plaza:
The ‘Revitalization’ of Madrid and
the
Formation of a New Civic Regional Identity,” Hamilton Stapell, SUNY, New Paltz Comment: George Esenwein,
University of Florida
#17.
Crossing Borders in the Early
Modern World
(Daniel Boone Room II) Chair: Katie Harris, University
of California, Davis
“Médicos
judios
y conversos
en la España de los siglos XV-XVI,” Moisés Orfali, Bar-IlanUniversity “The
Reconciliation of
the
Carvajal Family: At the Convergence of Genealogy, Race, and Identity in
the
Spanish Transatlantic World,” Roger
Martinez, University
of Texas, Austin “The Ransoming of
White
Slaves from the Magreb: the Roles of Missionaries, Merchants, and
Renegades, 16th
to 18th Centuries,” Dauril
Alden, University
of Washington Comment: Katie Harris,
University of California, Davis #18.
Selling Salvation, Surviving
Debt: The Spiritual and Monetary Economy of Early Modern Spain
(Breckinridge Room) Chair:
Sara Nalle, WilliamPattersonUniversity “Mother Juana de
la
Cruz and
the Commodification of Spirituality,” Ronald
E. Surtz, PrincetonUniversity
“Mercantile
Metaphors:
Spirituality Bought and Sold in the Writings of Francisco de Osuna,”
Jessica A.
Boon, DukeUniversity
“Immunity from
Debtor’s
Prison: Undermining Privilege from Below,” Michael Crawford, University
of the
South
“Women and Debt
in
Early
Modern Valladolid,” David Jack Norton, Independent Scholar Comment:
Sara Nalle, WilliamPatterson University
10:30 am -
12:15 pm
#19.
Twentieth-Century Spanish
Politics: Essays in Honor of Stanley
Payne, 1
(Daniel Boone Room II) Chair:
Carolyn Boyd, University
of California, Irvine
“Nineteenth-Century
Spanish
Anticlericalism,” Enrique Sanabria,
University
of New
Mexico “The Growth of
Anarchism as a
Mass Movement,” Jordi W. Getman-Eraso,
BronxCommunity College, CityUniversity
of New York
“Stanley
Payne: An
Intellectual
Biography,”
Michael Seidman, University of
North Carolina-Wilmington
Comment:
Carolyn Boyd, University
of California, Irvine #20.
Saints, Scholars, and
Soldiers: the Uses of History in Early Modern Castile
(Davis Room) Chair: Richard Kagan, JohnsHopkinsUniversity “Local Elites and
Historical
Memory in the Sixteenth-Century Marquesado de Villena,” Claudia Mineo, University of California,
Los Angeles
“Saint James in
the
Spanish
Historical Imagination from Isidore to Ambrosio de Morales,” Katherine
van
Liere, CalvinCollege “The Discovery of
Relics and
the Uses of History in the Diocese of Jaen,
1628-1644,” Katrina Olds, PrincetonUniversity Comment:
Richard Kagan, JohnsHopkinsUniversity #21. Indigenous Populations
in Spanish
America (Clay Room)
Chair: Francie Chassen-López,
University of Kentucky
“Christianization
in
the
Spanish Indies: Some Differences between New Spain and Peru,”
Oscar Mazin Gómez, El
Colegio de Mexico
“Negotiating Authority in New Spain: Interactions
between Spanish Authorities, Merchants, and Native People,” Dana Velasco
Murillo, University
of California, Los Angeles “Native Nobles in
New
Spain,”
Peter Villella, University of
California, Los Angeles Comment:: Francie Chassen-López,
University of Kentucky #22. Performing Gender in Early
Modern Iberia (Breckinridge Room) Chair:
Sherry Velasco, University
of Kentucky
“Cross-Dressing,
Transsexual
Casting, and Homo-eroticism in Tirso’s Bellaco
Sois Gómez and El Achilles,” Mary
Blythe Daniels, CentreCollege “La
Primera Dama:
Women and
the Casa de Comedias in Eighteenth-Century Granada,” Nichole S.
Prescott, SUNY,
Stony Brook
“Playing
María: Gender Performance and Sexual Identity in
Eighteenth-Century Spain,”
Marta Vicente, University
of Kansas Comment:
Sherry Velasco, University
of Kentucky 12:15-1:30 pm: LUNCH
(Lunch meeting of the Pre-Modern Spanish History Association of the
Midwest PSHAM: All Welcome!) 1:30-3:15 pm #23.
Late Modern Spain
in the World: Essays in Honor of Stanley Payne, 2
(Daniel Boone Room II) Chair: Michael Seidman,
University of North Carolina-Wilmington
“Spain
and the United
States
in the Modern Era,” Sean T. Perrone,
Saint Anselm College
“The Rif War as a
Frontier
Conflict,” Shannon Fleming,
independent scholar
“Popular Memory
of the
International Brigades, the Swedish Left, and the Creation of an
Anti-Fascist
Postwar Identity,” Carl-Gustaf Scott,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Historiography
and
Ideology
in Contemporary Spanish Foreign Relations,” Sasha Pack, State
University of New York-Buffalo
Comment: Michael Seidman,
University of North Carolina-Wilmington
#24.
Portugal in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Centuries
(Clay Room) Chair:
Francis A. Dutra, University
of California, Santa Barbara
“Portugal and Europe, 1 December 1640: A
Reappraisal,” David Tengwall,
Anne Arundel Community College
“The Count of
Ericeira’s História de Portugal Restaurado
Revisted,”
Monique M. Vallance, University
of California,
Santa
Barbara
“The Portuguese
Order
of Santiago during the Reign of
João V (r. 1706-1750),”
Francis A. Dutra, University
of California, Santa Barbara Comment:
the audience
#25.
Religion and the Colonial
Encounter
(Breckenridge Room) Chair:
Maria del Pilar Ryan, United StatesMilitaryAcademy “The House of Austria
as a Source of Miraculous
Images in
Latin America,” Jeffrey A. Schrader,
University
of Tennessee “God vs. Mammon
in the
Colonial Trenches: The Role and Powers of the Pai dos
Christaos in 17th Century Portuguese India,”
Glenn J. Ames, The University
of Toledo
“Consoling Souls,
Improving
Habits: Conscience and Colonialism in Seventeenth-Century New Spain,” J. Michelle Molina, University of California,
Irvine
Comment:
Maria del Pilar Ryan, United StatesMilitaryAcademy 3:30-5:15 pm: PLENARY
SESSION
#26.
Recent Trends in Spanish
History
(Daniel Boone Room II) Chair:
Gretchen Starr-LeBeau, University
of Kentucky
“Late Antiquity,”
Rachel
Stocking, Southern IllinoisUniversity at Carbondale
“Medieval Iberia,”
Olivia Remie Constable, NotreDameUniversity
“Early Modern Spain,”
Richard Kagan, JohnsHopkinsUniversity “Modern Spain,”
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, FordhamUniversity
Comment:
the audience
8:00-10:30 PM: EVENING
RECEPTION, Lexington History Museum