Richard Lauren Kagan (born 1943) is an American historian specializing in modern history. His focus of research is on the intellectual and legal history of the

Spanish Empire The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy (political entity), Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976. In conjunction with the Portuguese Empire, it ushered ...

under the Habsburgs.

Life and career

Born in 1943, he holds an undergraduate degree from

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

and a PhD from the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...

. Kagan has been a professor at

Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1876 based on the European research institution model, J ...

since 1972. There, he acts as the Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor Emeritus of History, with a joint-appointment as a professor in the Department of

Romance Languages The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are Language family, directly descended from Vulgar Latin. They are the only extant subgroup of the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-E ...

and

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s. His work has given him international recognition. He has been invited to deliver speeches about his work in Spain and France ( Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid,

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and École des hautes études en sciences sociales). Kagan is a resident member of the

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He has been a corresponding member of the Real Academia de la Historia since 2012. His work has addressed various issues regarding intellectual life in the Spanish Empire, such as art, law, the development of higher education, as well as its repercussion in North America.

Publications

*Students and Society in Early Modern Spain (1974)234 *Lawsuits and Litigants in Castile, 1500-1700 (1981)567 *Lucrecia's Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain (1990) 8910111213 *Urban Images of the Hispanic World, 1493-1793 (2000)1415 *Spanish Cities of the Golden Age (1989)16 *Spain, Europe, and the Atlantic World: Essays in Honour of John H. Elliott (1995)1718, edited with Geoffrey Parker *Spain in America: The Origins of Hispanism in the United States (2002) * Inquisitorial Inquiries: The Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics (2004)202122 *Atlantic Diasporas: Jews, Conversos and Crypto-Jews in the Age of Mercantilism, 1500-1800 (2008), edited with Philip D. Morgan232425262728 *

Clio In Greek mythology, Clio ( , ; ), also spelled Kleio, Сleio, or Cleo, is the muse of history, or in a few mythological accounts, the muse of lyre-playing. Etymology Clio's name is derived from the Greek root κλέω/κλείω (meaning ...

and the Crown: The Politics of History in Medieval and Early Modern Spain (2009), Johns Hopkins University Press2930Kagan, Richard L. (2010). Clio and the Crown: The Politics of History in Medieval and Early Modern Spain

References

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