Non Sufficit Orbis

An early modern global history blog

Indigenous Petitioning in the Early Modern British & Spanish New World

Renaissance Quarterly: Powerful Women, Masculine Bureaucrats, and Early Modern State Formation

Archival Woes and a Plan to Escape to Peru

Indigenous Petitioning in the Early Modern British & Spanish New World

by Adrian Masters and Bradley Dixon Download available here: Adrian Masters & Bradley Dixon, "Indigenous Petitioning in the Early Modern...

Renaissance Quarterly: Powerful Women, Masculine Bureaucrats, and Early Modern State Formation

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/renaissance-quarterly/article/influential-women-new-world-riches-and-masculine-anxieties-in-the-d...

Archival Woes and a Plan to Escape to Peru

A copyist in the 1590s Archive of Simancas dreams of escaping to Peru

Amores cerdos: An early modern Spanish ode to the pig (and to pork)

Sometime before 1608, a Spanish poet by the name of Juan de Arjona wrote an ode to the pig (see source 1). It survives in an unlikely...

A 'monstrous' male cat raises chickens in 1560s Spain, alarming Miguel de Muxica

On 25 April, 1566, a field justice of the Spanish city of Coria, Extremadura went before a scribe with an alarming story - "a monstrous...

Miraculous bureaucracy: a letter from heaven

"This is a transcript of a letter that fell from heaven to earth in which God wrote from his heart, and must be believed by all, which...

Women in control of an Empire? The 'women's council' and the Council of the Indies, ~156

Men ran the Council of the Indies, so says every book and almost every document we know about it. Little wonder; during the Habsburg era...

A new history blog

Welcome to Non Sufficit Orbis - a new blog about the history of the Atlantic world and beyond. My name is Adrian Masters. I'm a graduate...

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