Kingdom, Empire and Plus Ultra: conversations on the history of Portugal and Spain, 1415-1898
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This series consists of interviews with leading experts in the areas of Portuguese and Spanish history, from the beginning of the Portuguese discoveries in 1415 to the end of Spanish dominion in America in 1898. The interviews, conducted by historians Dr Edward Collins, cover a range of topics on the domestic and overseas histories of both nations, which include, among others: the Portuguese explorations of Africa and Asia, Spanish navigation and settlement in America, the church in Portugal and Spain, monarchy and intermarriage in the Iberian kingdoms, natural science and mapping in America, the role of nautical science, Irish historical relations with Portugal and Spain, and imperial competition in Europe and overseas.The series is funded by UCD Seed Funding and supported by UCD School of History and History Hub.
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This series consists of interviews with leading experts in the areas of Portuguese and Spanish history, from the beginning of the Portuguese discoveries in 1415 to the end of Spanish dominion in America in 1898. The interviews, conducted by historians Dr Edward Collins, cover a range of topics on the domestic and overseas histories of both nations, which include, among others: the Portuguese explorations of Africa and Asia, Spanish navigation and settlement in America, the church in Portugal and Spain, monarchy and intermarriage in the Iberian kingdoms, natural science and mapping in America, the role of nautical science, Irish historical relations with Portugal and Spain, and imperial competition in Europe and overseas.The series is funded by UCD Seed Funding and supported by UCD School of History and History Hub.
Episode 16 of 'Kingdom, Empire and Plus Ultra' features Dr Stephanie Cavanaugh, Sir John Elliot Junior Research Fellow in Spanish History at Oxford University.
Episode 11 of 'Kingdom, Empire and Plus Ultra' features Pedro Cardim, Associate Professor at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (New University of Lisbon).
Episode 10 of 'Kingdom, Empire and Plus Ultra' features Tamar Herzog, Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor in the History Department at Harvard University.
Flora Cassen (UNC) discusses her current project on Italian Jewish spies in the employ of Spain, in this case King Philip II of Spain, and his Italian Jewish spy, Simon Sacerdoti.
Jorge Canizares-Esguerra (UT Austin) discusses Old Testament Culture of the Spanish Monarchy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with series host Dr Edward Collins.
Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sa (Cambridge) discusses 'Early Colonial Brazil, English Piracy, and the Adventures of Anthony Knivet (1591-1599)' with Edward Collins
Allison Bigelow in converation on 'The Science of Colonial Silver: Rethinking the History of Mining and Metallurgy in the Early Americas' with historian Edward Collins.
Ricardo Padron discusses Spanish attempts to represent and conquer the Pacific as part of the greater Spanish imperial imagination in the sixteenth century with historian Edward Collins.
Ellen Dooley discusses the Spanish Inquisition and the religious image in Spain and America, 1478-1700 with Edward Collins, host of 'Kingdom, Empire and Plus Ultra: conversations on the history of Portugal and Spain, 1415-1898'.
'Portugal and Spain in the 15th and early-16th centuries: a brief overview', episode 1 of Edward Collins' series: 'Kingdom, Empire and Plus Ultra: conversations on the history of Portugal and Spain, 1415-1898'
Kingdom, Empire and Plus Ultra: conversations on the history of Portugal and Spain, 1415-1898
This series consists of interviews with leading experts in the areas of Portuguese and Spanish history, from the beginning of the Portuguese discoveries in 1415 to the end of Spanish dominion in America in 1898. The interviews, conducted by historians Dr Edward Collins, cover a range of topics on the domestic and overseas histories of both nations, which include, among others: the Portuguese explorations of Africa and Asia, Spanish navigation and settlement in America, the church in Portugal and Spain, monarchy and intermarriage in the Iberian kingdoms, natural science and mapping in America, the role of nautical science, Irish historical relations with Portugal and Spain, and imperial competition in Europe and overseas.The series is funded by UCD Seed Funding and supported by UCD School of History and History Hub.
