Historian Finesses Spanish Hegemony in Early Modern European History
Freddy Dominguez
The J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences' Humanities Faculty Colloquium Series continues with a presentation by professor Freddy Dominguez titled "Adventures in Writing a 'New' Political History of Early Modern Europe" at 4 p.m. Friday, April 14, in 319 Old Main.
The colloquium series highlights compelling humanities research in an effort to engage the larger community in intellectual exchange.
Dominguez will look back at the various historical influences that have informed his current work on the history of European politics and propaganda and provide a critique of certain kinds of intellectual and political history writing. He will also present a road map that might provide a reasonable guide to writing a 'new' kind of political history of early modern Europe by thinking about the 'problem' of Spanish hegemony in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Dominguez's current research explores the writings of English-Catholic exiles working and living in Spain, Italy, France and the Netherlands at the end of the sixteenth century and their efforts to restore the primacy of Catholicism and the Church in England. His other projects include studies on the writings of Jesuit Pedro de Ribadeneyra, sixteenth century (English) Catholic critiques of Catholic Reform, the uses of popular print by the Spanish Habsburgs, the involvement of "saintly" women in early modern politics, and Italian political thought during the Renaissance. He has taught courses on Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Early Modern Europe, Tudor-Stuart England, Machiavelli's Prince, the English Civil War and Golden Age Spain.
Dominguez received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Early Modern European History from Princeton University. Several prestigious awards have supported his research. Currently, he is an assistant professor in the Department of History and teaches a range of courses, including Golden Age Spain, Machiavelli and Tudor-Stuart Britain.
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Kathryn Ann Sloan, associate dean
J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences
479-575-5887,
ksloan@uark.edu
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