In 16th Century Spain, the monarchy saw the value of controlling 'Morisco' children, from Muslim families that were forcibly converted to Catholicism. Professor Suzannah Lipscomb finds out more from Dr. Stephanie Cavanaugh: https://t.co/YobjebsaWF @sixteenthCgirl@SMCavanaugh
Thanks to all participants for making AMEMG 24 a success, from its stellar keynote with @AnnaMSmol to its marathon day of panels, featuring twenty papers from scholars of all career levels. Wonderful to meet you all and looking forward to next time @MSVU_English@msvuenglsociety
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We are back with a new series of blogs! First up is Ana Struillou's 'Connecting slavery and medicine across the Mediterranean: Isabel de la Cruz and berberisco healers in seventeenth-century Madrid', now live on our website here https://t.co/4WqGooe1u9 @kingshistory@ana_strl
#RenSA24 Interested in Forensic Evidence and Visual Culture in the Early Modern Iberian World? Come to the panels organized by @marialumbrerasc and Yonatan Glazer-Eytan, with papers also by @thinmexduke@falsabeguina, G. Marcocci and yours truly on Thursday morning @RSAorg !
Postdoc Opportunity!
3rd SlaveVoyages Postdoctoral Fellowship, based at the University of California, Merced, and in connection with the UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives project "Routes of Enslavement in the Americas." Apply now! https://t.co/iDvXC0ce8C
Continuing from the last tweet, here are more pictures of 16th-century #Morisco clothing from Granada. See more photos and details on my blog 'The Moriscos of Tunisia':
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The IDF opened fire on people they've been starving for months when those people went to collect food aid. If this doesn't not move you to speak against this violence, then you are actively collaborating with genocide.