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I specialize in the cultural and religious history of Renaissance Spain, with an emphasis on Spanish involvement in the Mediterranean world. I am very interested in the relationship between faith, epistemology, and identity–that is, how the way that early modern people made sense of their world through a religious lens affected how they defined their own place in it. What, for example, made people ‘Spanish’? Their religion? Their language? Their homeland? Their shared history? To what extent were those three categories even separable in the Renaissance mind?
I am also very interested in the interaction between religious belief, learned travel, and Renaissance historiography. To what extent was the ‘antiquarian revolution’ in early modern historical writing a product of the re-encounter with pagan antiquity? Did historia sacra exist prior to the Renaissance?
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