publications

A Monarchy of All the Nations: Imagined Antiquities in the Spanish Renaissance. Book-length manuscript on the place of Hebraic and Phoenician antiquities in the emergence of early modern Spanish national identity.

Pietro Martire d’Anghiera, Babylonian Embassy. Study, edition, and English translation of Pietro Martire d’Anghiera’s 1511 Legatio Babylonica, a riveting account of the Spanish-Italian humanist’s 1502 embassy to Muslim Egypt.

“From Jerusalem to Toledo: Replica, Landscape, and the Nation in Renaissance Iberia,” Past & Present 218.1 (February 2013): 55–90.
“Scholarly Pilgrims: Antiquarian Visions of the Holy Land,” in Sacred History: Uses of the Christian Past in the Renaissance World, ed. Kate van Liere, Simon Ditchfield, and Howard Louthan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 267–283.
“Nebuchadnezzar’s Jewish Legions: Ancient Hebrews in the Spanish Renaissance,” article MS in preparation.
“The Renaissance Mediterranean Revisited: Christian Iberia and Muslim Egypt, ca. 1250–1517,” in Mapping the Medieval Mediterranean, ca. 300–1550: An Encyclopedia of Perspectives in Research, ed. Amity Law (Leiden: Brill, under contract).
“From the Cult of the Relic to the Cult of the Nation: A Chapter in Renaissance Historia Sacra,” article MS in preparation.
“The Greatest Crusade that Never Was: Lope de Vega’s Jerusalén conquistada (1609) and the Ars historica in Early Modern Spain,” article MS in preparation.

Review of Alejandro Geraldini, Periplo hasta las regiones ubicadas al sur del equinoccio, ed. and trans. Carmen González Vázquez and Jesús Paniagua Pérez (León: Universidad de León, 2009), in Sixteenth Century Journal 43.1 (Spring 2012): 288–290.
Review of Joseph F O’Callaghan, The Gibraltar Crusade: Castile and the Battle for the Strait, (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), in Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 36.1 (2011): article 10.
Review of Miguel Morán Turina, La memoria de las piedras: Anticuarios, arqueólogos y colleccionistas de antigüedades en la España de los Austrias (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica, 2010), in Renaissance Quarterly 64.1 (Spring 2011): 170–172.
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), in The Journal of Modern History 82.3 (September 2010): 729–731.
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.

Miguel A. Granada, “Cosmology,” in The Classical Tradition, ed. Anthony Grafton, Glenn Most, and Salvatore Settis (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), 241–244.
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.
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).

Adam G Beaver