Final Programme for Anglo-Iberian Relations, c.1500-1850 Conference (Mértola, Portugal, 9-11 April...

Anglo-‐Iberian Relations, c.1500-‐1850 Mértola | 9-‐11 April 2015

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Organisers: Dr Elizabeth Evenden | Brunel University & Harvard University Valentina Caldari | University of Kent & Universidade do Porto

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PROGRAMME

Conference Venues: Theatre [T]; Conference Room 1 [CR1]; Conference Room 2 [CR2]

Thursday 9 April 1:00-‐2:00pm Registration [T] 2:00-‐2:30pm Ceremony following Mértola School Competition (sponsored by Porto

Editora and LEGO® Education) [T] 2:45-‐4:15pm Parallel Sessions A [CR1] & B [CR2] 4:15-‐4:45pm Coffee Break (including water and juice, local breads, jams, pastries and biscuits) 4:45-‐6:15pm Parallel Sessions C [CR1] & D [CR2] 6:30-‐7:00pm Information session on new network ‘Anglo-‐Iberian Relations, from the

Medieval to the Modern’ (Dr Elizabeth Evenden) [T] 7:00-‐8:00pm Plenary Lecture: Prof. Werner Thomas (University of Leuven), ‘The

Inquisition and the establishment of diplomatic relations between England and Spain, 1550-‐1650’ (Chaired by Valentina Caldari) [T]

8:30pm Buffet dinner at Casa Amarela Friday 10 April 9:00-‐9:30 Registration [CR2] 9:30-‐11:00am Roundtable E [CR1] 11:00-‐11:30am Coffee Break (including water and juice, local breads, jams, pastries and biscuits) 11:30am-‐1:00pm Parallel sessions G [CR1] & H [CR2] 1:00-‐2:30pm Lunch Break 2:30-‐4:15pm Parallel Sessions I [CR1] & J [CR2] 4:15-‐4:45 pm Coffee Break (including water and juice, local breads, jams, pastries and biscuits) 6:00-‐7:00pm Plenary Lecture: Prof. José Miguel Martínez Torrejón (Queens College,

CUNY), ‘Open for business. Early translations of Las Casas's Brevisima into English’ (Chaired by Prof. Darlene Abreu-‐Ferreira) [T]

Saturday 11 April 9:30-‐11:00am Parallel sessions K [CR1] & L [CR2] 11:00-‐11:30am Coffee Break (including water and juice, local breads, jams, pastries and biscuits) 11:30am-‐1:00pm Parallel Sessions M [CR1] & N [CR2] 1:00-‐2:30pm Lunch Break 2:30-‐4:15pm Parallel Sessions O [CR1] & P [CR2] 4:15-‐4:30pm Coffee Break (including water and juice, local breads, jams, pastries and biscuits) 4:30-‐5:30pm Plenary session: Drs Joaquim Jorge and Florbela Estevão, ‘The Historical

Route of the Lines of Torres Vedras -‐ increasing the value of an historic and architectural heritage associated with the French Invasions’ (Chaired by Dr David Kenyon) [T]

5:30-‐5:45pm Concluding Remarks [T] 8:00pm Conference picnic at the Castle

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THURSDAY 9 APRIL Parallel sessions

h.2:45-‐4:15pm PANEL A Anglo-‐Portuguese Relations before 1555: A Reappraisal Chair/Discussant: Prof. Luís Miguel Duarte A.1 Dr Tiago Viúla de Faria, ‘On the Origins of Anglo-‐Portuguese Relations: Politics and Diplomacy’ A.2 Dr Flávio Miranda, ‘On the Origins of Anglo-‐Portuguese Relations: Commercial Exchange’ A.3 Hélder Carvalhal, ‘Anglo-‐Portuguese Dynastic Politics in the Sixteenth Century: the Marriage Project between Infante Luís (1506-‐1555) and Mary Tudor (1516-‐1558)’ PANEL B Influence and Ideas in the Art of Warfare Chair/Discussant: Dr Rubén González Cuerva B.1 Bastien Carpentier, ‘Influencias locales en la definición de una estrategia global. La atlantización de la guerra mediterránea desde los observatorios vascos y genoveses (1579-‐1598)’ B.2 Brice Cossart, ‘More gunners for the Armadas! Transformations in naval warfare and skill management during late-‐sixteenth-‐ century Anglo-‐Spanish war’ B.3 Thomas Nora, ‘The Methuen Treaties: An Exemplar of Interstate Fiscal-‐Military Cooperation’ _______________________________________________________________________________________ h.4:45-‐6:15pm PANEL C (Un)natural Disasters: Outside Observation and Intervention Chair/Discussant: Dr Leonor Zozaya C.1 Dr Natalie Mears, ‘From the Spanish Armada to the Lisbon earthquake: British state prayers for foreign powers from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries’ C.2 Prof. Mark Molesky, ‘Aiding Lisbon: The British Relief Effort of 1755-‐56’ PANEL D Anglo-‐Iberian Relations on Stage and Page Chair/Discussant: Dr Kate De Rycker D.1 Annemie Leemans, ‘What can a recipe book teach us about Anglo-‐Iberian relations?’ D.2 David J Amelang, ‘The Spanish Globe and the English Corral’ D.3 Tiago Sousa Garcia, ‘The foreign epic of soon-‐to-‐be-‐ours trade. The 1655 translation of Os Lusiadas in the context of Anglo-‐Portuguese colonial trade competition’

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THURSDAY 9 APRIL Plenary Lecture

h.7:00-‐8:00pm

Prof. Werner Thomas (University of Leuven) ‘The Inquisition and the establishment of diplomatic relations between

England and Spain, 1550-‐1650’ (Chaired by Valentina Caldari)

Werner Thomas is Associate Professor of Iberian and Iberoamerican history at the University of Leuven. He has published on the repression of Protestantism in Spain (1517-‐1648), the Habsburg court of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella Clara Eugenia in Brussels (1598-‐1621), the Siege of Ostend (1601-‐1604), and the political and cultural relations between the (Southern) Netherlands and the Spanish empire (1500-‐1700). His current research projects include the contribution of Flemish prints and engravings to the construction of the Spanish empire in America, focussing on New Spain, Peru, and New Granada (1520-‐1800), the Southern Netherlands as a centre of accumulation and translation within the Spanish monarchy (1520-‐1700), and the role of Hispano-‐Flemish elites and mixed identities in the continuation of Flemish loyalty to the House of Habsburg (1659-‐1708). ‘The Inquisition and the establishment of diplomatic relations between England and Spain, 1550-‐1650’ During the second half of the sixteenth century, England and Spain increasingly became antagonists on the religious chessboard of Europe. While in England Anglicanism reinforced its position during the reign of Elisabeth I, in Spain Protestantism was vigorously rooted out. As a consequence, English subjects travelling to Spain, especially seamen and merchants, were closely monitored by the Inquisition, the moving force of religious persecution in Spain. Many of them were persecuted and ended up in auto-‐da-‐fes, having their belongings, ships and merchandise confiscated. However, reasons of State progressively urged the Spanish monarchs to make their religious policy at home subordinate to the restoration and/or intensification of international relations with non-‐Catholic nations. This paper analyses the way the Spanish inquisition dealt with the attempts of the Spanish crown to establish and restore diplomatic relations with Protestant England.

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FRIDAY 10 APRIL Parallel sessions

h.9:30-‐11:00am PANEL E Roundtable on the New Digital Platform ‘The Connected Histories of the Two Iberian Empires’ E.1 Dr Graça Almeida Borges, Contextualisation of the project E.2 Prof. Mafalda Soares da Cunha, Scientific relevance and impact of the project E.3 Prof. Fernanda Olival, Project and Digital Humanities E.4 Valentina Caldari, Project as a space for debate and potential for early career researchers _______________________________________________________________________________________ h.11:30am-‐1:00pm PANEL G Anglo-‐Spanish Relations in the Reigns of Mary I (1553-‐8) and Philip (1554-‐8) Chair/Discussant: Dr Natalie Mears G.1 Dr John Edwards, ‘Friar Bartolomé Carranza and the Catholic Reform of the English Church’ G.2 Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer, ‘Novus rex, nova lex: Philip I of England, the Select Council and English Politics, 1555-‐1558’ G.3 Dr Alexander Samson, ‘Courtly Culture under Philip and Mary’ PANEL H British Narratives of Iberia I Chair/Discussant: Prof. Mark Molesky H.1 Mariana Gonçalves, ‘Travelling through Portugal at the End of the Seventeenth Century: William Bromley's Impressions of the Portuguese Kingdom’ H.2 Prof. Isabel Oliveira Martins, ‘‘Africa begins at the Pyrenees’: or the Iberian Peninsula as seen by a British traveller during the Peninsular War’ H.3 Cláudia Faria, ‘Madeira Island-‐ an (un)expected home?’ _______________________________________________________________________________________ h.2:30-‐4:15pm PANEL I Sources and Resources Chair/Discussant: Dr Elizabeth Evenden I.1 Prof. Darlene Abreu-‐Ferreira, ‘The Culture of Portuguese notaries and the English mercantile community’ I.2 Dr Leonor Zozaya, ‘Political and Administrative Implications of Script Usage in the Town Council of Coimbra (Portugal) in the Early Modern Period’ I.3 Dr Cheryl Butler, ‘Individual Interactions: The Town of Southampton, Spain & Portugal in the 16th Century’

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PANEL J. Favourites and Revolutions in the 17th Century Chair/Discussant: Matthew Kocsan J.1 Dr Giuseppe Mrozek Eliszezynski, ‘Historical antecedents and political models in the debate on the valimiento in Spain (1539-‐1625)’ J.2 Dr Rubén González Cuerva, ‘The Perfect Favourite: Baltasar de Zúñiga and the Limits of Ministry’ J.3 Antonio Raganato, ‘‘As falling leaves winter’: The Favourite’s memory revealed in the pamphleteering animosity towards the Evil Counselors (1640–1648)’ J.4 Dr Daniele Di Bartolomeo, ‘The revolutions after the Revolution: Seventeenth-‐century Portuguese and English revolutions in the post-‐Jacobin France’ _______________________________________________________________________________________

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FRIDAY 10 APRIL Plenary Lecture

6:00-‐7:00pm

Prof. José Miguel Martínez Torrejón (Queens College, CUNY), ‘Open for

business. Early translations of Las Casas's Brevisima into English’ (Chaired by Prof. Darlene Abreu-‐Ferreira)

José Miguel Martínez Torrejón is from Spanish Extremadura, and studied in Catalonia and California before settling in Lisbon and New York, where he now works at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He considers himself an Iberian cultural scholar, and his teaching and research have evolved around several areas, seen as intertwined and belonging to the same context: Spanish Medieval-‐Golden Age Literature, Colonial Historiography, and various aspects of the Portuguese Renaissance. He uses philological and rhetorical analysis to study the history of ideas and the political uses of literature. His critical edition of the Miscellânea de Foyos has just started its ninth year “no prelo” at the Imprensa Nacional-‐Casa da Moeda. This a fascinating collection of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin poems, letters and political speeches belonging to many genres, that acquire a different meaning when read together in the order they are copied: an attack on both reigning peninsular monarchs: D. Sebastian and Phillip II. The miscellany represents the state of mind in Portugal in the wake of Ksar-‐el-‐Kebir and the expected annexation of Portugal to the Habsburg monarchy.His critical edition of Bartolomé de las Casas’s Brevísima relación has been recently reissued by the Royal Academy in Madrid. He is now working on various aspects of Portuguese nationalism pre and after 1580 and on the literary production emanating from or built around the House of Bragança during the Iberian Union.

‘Open for business. Early translations of Las Casas’s Brevisima into English’ In his presentation, he will discuss the political microcontexts in which the main translations of Brevísima relación de la destruición de las Indias were produced. The Spanish Colonie (1583) is a retranslation of the first version into French (Antwerp, 1579), by the Flemish Jacques de Miggrode. The goals towards which the Brevísima’s horrors serve are quite different, as the English version might have been commissioned by Richard Hakluyt as part of his documentation efforts aimed at promoting British colonization in America. He draws heavily on it in his Discourse on Western Planting, where the riches of America and the cruelties of the Spaniards that held the Americans are displayed side by side. The Tears of the Indians (1656) is a new translation from Miggrode’s French version, this time addressed to Oliver Cromwell and the English people, who are warned in the prologue about the moral necessity and the business convenience of attacking and seizing the Spanish colonies in the Caribbean. This is the translation that would furnish a few pages for the New York, 1898 publication that passes for a reprint, although it contains a mere four pages of Las Casas’s text, brought in to prove the cruelty of the Spaniards, one and the same in the 16th and in the 19th centuries, and the moral imperative for US citizens to rescue Cubans from oppression. The rest of the slim volume is mostly occupied by a description of the island as an earthly paradise, complete with a detailed evaluation of the business

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potentials Cuba offered for US entrepreneurs. As it happens with so many invasions, the liberation of the oppressed, voiced in the title, is the excuse for a much more practical reason to intervene.

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SATURDAY 11 APRIL Parallel sessions

9:30-‐11:00am PANEL K Religion and Diplomacy I Chair/Discussant: Dr Alexander Samson K.1 Dr Rafael María Girón-‐Pascual, ‘Francisca De Cáceres: A Lady-‐Spy In Catherine Of Aragon´s Court’ K.2 Dr Rocío García Bourrellier, ‘A Spanish view on the embassy of Lord Charles Howard, I Earl of Nottingham, in the court of Valladolid (1605)’ K.3 Dr Cristina Bravo Lozano, ‘Domésticos De Una Reina Bragança, Misioneros Del Rey Católico: Capellanes ‘Ibéricos’ en La Corte De Londres, 1662-‐1692’ PANEL L Religion and Politics between the 16th and 17th Centuries Chair/Discussant: Dr John Edwards L.1 Catherine Chou, ‘The ‘Popish Parliament Plot’ and the English Response to the 1580 Portuguese Succession Crisis’ L.2 Matthew Kocsan, ‘Sacral Politics: Inheritance, Ideology, and Monarchy in the Spain of Philip II and Philip III’ L.3 Prof. Luís Filipe Silvério Lima, ‘Menasseh Ben Israel and the connections among Portuguese and English Millenarians (1646-‐1656)’ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 11:30-‐1:00pm PANEL M Religion and Diplomacy II Chair/Discussant: Dr Elizabeth Evenden M.1 Dr Lucy Underwood, ‘‘Do not abandon the Catholics of England': The English Catholics and diplomacy between Rome, Madrid and London 1604-‐1606 M.2 Dr Janet Dickinson, ‘The Earl of Essex’s 1596 misadventures in Portugal’ M.3 Dr Simon Healy, ‘The destruction of the Spanish Party at the English Court, 1624-‐6’ PANEL N British Narratives of Iberia II Chair/Discussant: Phoebe Oliver N.1 Alexandre Dias Pinto, ‘British Hegemony and Civilising Influence in Robert Southey’s History of Portugal’ N.2 Prof. Maria Zulmira Castanheira, ‘Interpreting the Portuguese Other: Robert Southey’s Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal (1797) and His Reviews of Travel Books on Portugal for the British Periodical Press’ N.3 Prof. António Lopes, ‘Anecdotal sketches of Lisbon in the private correspondence of an Englishman 1815-‐1817’

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h.2:30-‐4:15pm PANEL O Trade Chair/Discussant: Valentina Caldari O.1 Dr Richard Stone, ‘Trading with the Enemy Revisited: Bristol’s trade with Spain during the Anglo-‐Spanish Wars (1585-‐1604 and 1625-‐1630)’ O.2 Dr Leslie Theibert, ‘‘A Mongrel Pack of Thieves and Rogues’: Privateers and Guarda Costas in the Seventeenth Century Caribbean’ O.3 Caitlin Gale, ‘The Friend of my Friend: Britain's relationship with Iberia and Barbary’ O.4 Dr David Stiles, ‘Claiming the Southern Oceanic Gateway: Anglo-‐Spanish Competition for the Southern Cone of the Americas, 1765-‐1800’ PANEL P Iberia between the 18th and 19th Centuries Chair/Discussant: Prof. Maria Zulmira Castanheira P.1 Prof. João Paulo Ascenso Pereira da Silva, ‘A Jacobite’s Potrait of Lisbon before the 1755 Earthquake (John Stevens, The Ancient and Present State of Portugal)’ P.2 Anna Brinkman, ‘British Prize Law and the Loss of Spanish Neutrality 1756-‐1763’ P.3 Prof. John Clarke and José Baptista de Sousa, ‘The Hollands’ influence on the origins of Iberian Liberalism 1808-‐1820’ P.4 Fábio Alexandre Faria, ‘The Political and Cultural Significance of Rodrigo da Fonseca Magalhães’ Exile in London, 1828-‐1832’

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SATURDAY 11 APRIL Plenary Lecture

4:30-‐5:30pm

Joaquim Jorge and Florbela Estêvão, ‘The Historical Route of the Lines of Torres Vedras -‐ increasing the value

of an historic and architectural heritage associated with the French Invasions’

(Chaired by Dr David Kenyon)

Joaquim Jorge has a degree in Anthropology, Culture Heritage and Identities from the University Institute of Management Social Sciences and Technologies in Lisbon (2001) and was a postgraduate in Cultural Heritage and Identities at the University Institute of Management Social Sciences and Technologies in Lisbon (2006). He has been an employee of the Municipality of Loures since 1991, and has had responsibilities with and positions in the Ethnography Sector, Photo Archive and Research Sector, specifically relating to cultural heritage. Since 2005 he has been responsible for preparing and developing cultural projects for municipal museums and the cultural heritage sector. He is a member of the team responsible for promoting the Historic Route of the Lines of Torres Vedras. Florbela Estêvão has a degree in History from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon (1989) and undertook her graduate study at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto (Museology, 1998) and Archaeology (1999). Her MA thesis examined “Transformation of a landscape: the Defensive System of The Lines of Torres and his musealization”. She is now a Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History in the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, New University of Lisbon. She has been been an employee of the Municipality of Loures since 1990, with responsibility in the area of cultural heritage. She is also a member of the team responsible for promoting the Historic Route of the Lines of Torres Vedras. ‘The Historical Route of the Lines of Torres Vedras -‐ increasing the value of an historic and architectural heritage associated with the French Invasions’ It is our purpose in this international forum to share our experience on the implementation of the Historical Route of the Lines of Torres Vedras, a project promoted by six municipalities within Lisbon peninsula region. It is an important archaeological and architectural complex consisting of more than 150 military field fortifications known as “The Lines of Torres Vedras.” This complex and innovative defensive military architectural system was built in the early nineteenth century to protect the city of Lisbon from the 3rd French Napoleonic Invasion. It basically consists of two defensive lines of fortifications crossing all Estremadura, from the Tagus in the East to the Atlantic in the West. All those fortifications were articulated in a tight network, defending the main roads that could be used by the invading army. Two other smaller lines were built further south to protect the embarkation

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of British troops safely, if necessary. All these fortifications were built in close connection with the geomorphological characteristics of the particular locations where they were erected; they are mostly earthen buildings (military rammed earth), lacking any great monumental structures. Starting from this very extensive, valuable historical military complex, left abandoned almost over two hundred years, an inter-‐municipal and interdisciplinary team has developed a plan of archaeological research, restoration and musealization; it was a joint intervention involving over 30 military structures, which output was the creation of a cultural and touristic resource. The Historical Route of the Lines of Torres Vedras offers its visitors an articulated vision of the military complex, proposing several networked circuits, supported by six local Interpretation Displays (small museum structures). Alongside the historical military buildings and the physical features of the landscape, our visitor’s program allows people to enjoy other local attractions (especially tasting famous types of wines and a diversified gastronomy). Now the team is engaged in getting more national and international partners for this project of overall European importance. Several challenges are present nowadays, the biggest of them being how to ensure the sustainability of the whole enterprise.

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