Race and Violence in Early Modern Spain

05/18/20 • 2 min

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“On Holy Thursday in the year 1604 in the city of Seville, Spain, a bloody fight broke out between two confraternities on the Plaza of San Salvador...”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Erin Kathleen Rowe.

For further reading:
Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism by Erin Kathleen Rowe (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

“On Holy Thursday in the year 1604 in the city of Seville, Spain, a bloody fight broke out between two confraternities on the Plaza of San Salvador...”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Erin Kathleen Rowe.

For further reading:
Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism by Erin Kathleen Rowe (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

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“How does a story about two doctors reveal the social, political, and ethical divisions that typified Brazil during the Cold War?”

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For further reading:
Eyal Weinberg, “‘With colleagues like that, who needs enemies?’: Doctors and Repression under Military and Post-Authoritarian Brazil,” The Americas 76 (2019): 467-505.

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