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Theater of Conquest: Performing Iberian News in Rome (1490–1520)

October 6, 2022
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
America/New_York
Online Event

The Italian and Mediterranean Colloquium

Theater of Conquest: Performing Iberian News in Rome (1490–1520) 

Presenter: Marta Albalá-Pelegrín (Cal Poly, Pomona)

Respondent: Fabien Montcher (Saint Louis University)

This talk intervenes in recent scholarly discourses on the construction of Early Modern Iberian sovereignty and hegemony via its leverage with African polities and kingdoms. In it, Marta Albalá-Pelegrín argues that theatrical performances in diplomatic enclaves, such as Rome, deployed strategies of appropriation of power by staging conversion, ceremonies of deposition, and pledges of obedience of North African and West African sovereigns and rulers.

 

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