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Indigenous Petitioning in the Early Modern British & Spanish New World

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

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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...

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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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