Michael Aidan Pope

El viernes pasado falleció a sus 100 años Margit Frenk, maestra absoluta de literatura del Siglo de Oro y de cultura popular. No sé por dónde empezar, pero quiero hablar de ella. Pocas obras de investigación humanística tienen la trascendencia de su legado

Just published in open access: Early Modern Narratives of Islam across Europe: A Connected Memory: brill.com/display/titl...

Miguel Anxo Pena González's work (amongst others) on the seventeenth-century Capuchins Francisco José de Jaca and Epifanio de Moirans might be of interest here: libros.csic.es/product_info...

The Morisco Diaspora and the Morisco Networks across the Western and Eastern Mediterranean "The Morisco Diaspora and the Morisco Networks across the Western and Eastern Mediterranean" published on 29 May 2025 by Brill.

🚨 The Morisco diaspora and the Morisco networks across the Western and Eastern Mediterranean by @gerardwiegers.bsky.social and Mercedes García-Arenal is now available OPEN ACCESS !

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FINAL PROJECT CONFERENCE! Register to attend Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World, bringing together longstanding project collaborators and exciting, new interlocutors. Spaces are *extremely* limited, so do sign up... see the programme at www.mmor.co.uk/events/confe...

#EarlyModern 🗃️

TOMORROW! Join us in Bloomsbury or online! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Map of the port city of Cartagena de Indias, where Alonso de Sandoval worked. Plano de la Ciudad de Cartagena de Yndias y sus cercanías, around 1628, Archivo General de Indias. from: https://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/show/22078

MONDAY!!! Join us for an exciting talk by @michaelaidan.bsky.social on Dissimilar Gentiles: Canary Islanders and Black West Africans in the #EarlyModern Iberian Atlantic

28 April, 5:30PM, @ihr.bsky.social or on zoom (register for the link: www.history.ac.uk/events/dissi...) #SkyStorians

Dissimilar Gentiles: Canary Islanders and Black West Africans in the early modern Iberian Atlantic

This coming Monday I am giving the following paper, 'Dissimilar Gentiles: Canary Islanders and Black West Africans in the early modern Iberian Atlantic', at the @ihr.bsky.social's European History 1500-1800 seminar. Book in using this link: www.history.ac.uk/events/dissi...

I just wrote this small piece for the MMoR blog. Make sure to check out the rest of the posts too. Hannah, Carolin, and Becca have put together a great collection of primary source analysis there!

Alonso de Sandoval, De instauranda Æthiopum salute, and the Religious Conversion of Black Africans — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720 Alonso de Sandoval (1576-1652) was a Jesuit missionary in the Viceroyalty of Peru, known for his work to convert enslaved Black Africans to Catholicism. This included the publication of De instauran...

Blog-post alert! A pleasure to feature our neighbour Michael Aidan Pope (UCL) on the MMoR blog- read his work on Sandoval as a source for the religious politics of racemaking #EarlyModern 🗃️

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IAS Book Launch: Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement Join us in celebrating the the launch of Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century by José Lingna Nafafé.

IAS Book Launch: Lourenço da Silva Mendonça & the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement
28 Jan 5-7pm
José Lingna Nafafé's book tells of the highly organised, international court case for the abolition of slavery spearheaded by Lourenço da Silva Mendonça in the 17thC
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Thank you!

Hi Francois, where is this page from? It seems very interesting.

The image is the cover of the book, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic by Cambridge University Press.

✍️Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic
💭 An intellectual history exploring how free & enslaved Black people in the early Atlantic conceptualized & contested ideas about slavery & freedom
🕰️Out on Dec 5th '24
🤫 already available online: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...