Renaissance
Studies at UCSB
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Luca della Robbia, Schola Cantorum, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence
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Renaissance Studies Events Lecture, Tuesday, March 21, 3:00 PM, History Seminar Room: Luis Corteguera (History, University of Kansas): "Desperately Seeking the King: Pardon Tales from Early Modern Spain" In the worldwide Spanish empire of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, written communication became increasingly important for subjects to reach their Spanish rulers. Ordinary men and women with little or no opportunity of ever speaking before their monarchs nonetheless wrote to them seeking everything from pardons to gifts. Their dramatic and mundane pleas shed light on common men and women's understanding of their relationship to their rulers. Luis Corteguera is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kansas and the author of FOR THE COMMON GOOD: POPULAR POLITICS IN BARCELONA, 1580-1640 (Cornell, 2002). Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Program and the Mediterranean Studies Research Focus Group. In spring quarter the Renaissance Studies programs plans to host a reception that will feature the showing a short film on the cleaning of the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel, followed by refreshments. The purpose of the reception is to showcase the Renaissance Studies major to undergraduate students. Date and time TBA. See also the events link to the Early Modern Center.
Contact Info: Renaissance Studies Program,
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