Articles

My con­tri­bution to the Iberian Con­nec­tions workshop is about the con­nec­tions that are made between times, places and peoples through the medium of the printed book.

The Smith­field Dec­retals are cur­rently pre­served in the British Library.

Both mar­ginal micro-literatures and mys­ticism offer them­selves as a modus loquendi a way of speaking, and a modus agenda (a way of acting) that com­ments upon or speaks to a center and speaks it otherwise.

I want to cross over to the other track, for a moment to think about the lan­guage of law and margins so as to provide a few “crossovers” for our topics.

The cog­nitive intu­ition of the impor­tance of the margin in the process of studying texts, empir­i­cally demon­strated by psy­chol­o­gists and ped­a­gogues cited in the attached article, explains the reasons why the margin of books is a coveted space.

First of all, thank you for pre­senting your work and sharing your research with Iberian Connections.

In 1475 two Jewish men, rabbi Mosé Maturel and his son-in-law Muysé, and a Christian friend, Alfonso de Córdoba, walked into the office of one of Seville’s many Christian notaries.

This is the third endeavour of Maríluz and Carolin of delving together into inquisi­torial archives  to trace irregular healers and their patients.

In my essay, “Leche and lagar­tijas: injecting the local into eighteenth-century Spanish American medical dis­course,” I explorehow European and indigenous medical cul­tures that came into contact in Spain’s sixteenth- and seventeenth-century global empire con­tinued their inter­ac­tions well into the late colonial period through an ongoing nego­ti­ation of the local and the global.

Convent ledgers from colonial Are­quipa, Peru, reveal that female reli­gious com­mu­nities spent large sums of money on a wide variety of medical ingre­dients in the care of their members.