Luis R. Corteguera
Professor, History
lcortegu@ku.edu
Primary office:
2022 Wescoe Hall
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Current Research & Projects
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Book project on royal encounters with ordinary people in early modern Spain. Popular politics, politics as entertainment, visions, and the political and religious uses of images in the Spanish monarchy |
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Research Interests
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History of Spain and the Spanish empire, 1500-1800, political and social history; visual culture in the early modern Spanish world. |
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Selected Publications
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For the Common Good: Popular Politics in Barcelona, 1580-1640. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. “The Making of A Visionary Woman: The Life of Beatriz Ana Ruiz, 1666–1735.” Luis Corteguera and M. Vicente, eds. In Women, Texts and Authority in the Early Modern Spanish World. Surrey: Ashgate, 2004. “Talking Images in the Spanish Empire: Vision and Action,” in Visualizing the Invisible: Visionary Technologies in Religious and Cultural Contexts, ed. Lisa Bitel; special issue of Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation vol. 25 no. 1 (March 2009), 55-71. |
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Courses Taught
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HIST 55: Spain and Its Empire |
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Education
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B.A. History, Brandeis University (1984); M.A. in History, Princeton University (1986); Fulbright Visiting Student at the Universitat de Barcelona (1987–88); Ph.D. History, Princeton University (1992) |
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| Language Competence | Spanish (5) |
