Book Manuscript
I am currently revising my dissertation for publication under the working title, A Holy Land for the Catholic Monarchy: The Near East in the Spanish Renaissance. It is a study of the cultural and political impact of Spaniards’ ideas about Jerusalem and the biblical Near East on the shaping of modern Spanish national identity. Click below to read sample chapters.
Introduction. The Problem of History in Renaissance Spain
I. Three Views of the East
1. The Diplomat
2. The Pilgrim
3. The Orientalist
II. Spain as Tierra Santa
4. Relics and the Historical Record
5. Nebuchadnezzar and the New Jerusalem
6. Blueprints for a Holy Land
Conclusion. The Holy Land and Spanish Identity
Bibliography
Articles / Chapters
- “Scholarly Pilgrims: Antiquarian Visions of the Holy Land,” in Sacred History: Visions of the Christian Past in the Renaissance World, ed. Kate van Liere, Simon Ditchfield, and Howard Louthan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
- “Jerusalem Replicas in Renaissance Iberia,” article MS in progress.
- “Renaissance Criticism and the Cult of Relics,” article MS in progress.
Book Reviews
- Review of Richard Kagan, Clio and the Crown: The Politics of History in Early Modern Spain (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), in Renaissance Quarterly 63.2 (Summer 2010), 659–660. view RQ >>
- Review of Patricia E. Grieve, The Eve of Spain: Myths of Origins in the History of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Conflict (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), forthcoming in The Journal of Modern History. view JMH >>
Academic Translations
- Miguel A. Granada, “Cosmology,” in The Classical Tradition, ed. Anthony Grafton, Glenn Most, and Salvatore Settis (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010). view book >>
- Miguel A. Granada, “Macrocosm: New Visions of the Cosmos,” in The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, ed. James Hankins (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 270–286. view book >>
- Javier Hernando Ortego, “Commons and village communities in the ‘Tierra de Madrid’ under the Ancien Régime (14th–19th centuries),” Working Papers of the 2006 IASCP Europe Regional Meeting (Brescia, Italy, 23–25 March 2006). read paper >>