Cardim, Pedro, Tamar Herzog, Jose Javier Ruiz Ibanez, and Gaetano Sabatini, eds. Polycentric Monarchies: How did Early Modern Spain and Portugal Achieve and Maintain a Global Hegemony? Eastbourne, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 2012. Introduction. Notes on Contributors. Index. 241 pp.

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. E4-E5
Author(s):  
L. M. Brockey
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Academic Press ◽  
Early Modern Spain

Lesbians in Early Modern Spain

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherry Velasco
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Spain

Bjørn Okholm Skaarup, Anatomy and Anatomists in Early Modern Spain (Farnham/Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2015), xii + 285pp. ISBN: 9781471448162

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivian Nutton
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Spain

This chapter reviews the book Anatomy and Anatomists in Early Modern Spain (2015), by Bjørn Okholm Skaarup. The book traces the development of anatomy in Spain and Mexico from 1500 to the end of the seventeenth century. Skaarup cites particular instances where the Spanish experience can contribute substantially to wider debates, including Juan Tomas Porcell’s autopsies of plague victims in a hospital at Zaragoza in 1568 and the detailed plan of 1586 for a ‘house of anatomy’ there. He challenges O’Malley’s exaggerated description, based on Vesalius’s comments on his time in Spain between 1559 and 1561, that doctors and surgeons lack interest in anatomy. Skaarup reveals the difficulties faced by those who wished to introduce dissection as an essential part of the education of a doctor, as well as the objections that might be made.

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