About Elizabeth Spragins

Assistant Professor of Spanish, College of the Holy Cross

NBN Episodes hosted by Elizabeth:

Ken Tully and Chad Leahy, "Jerusalem Afflicted: Quaresmius, Spain, and the Idea of a 17th-century Crusade" (Routledge, 2019)

November 11, 2020

Jerusalem Afflicted

Ken Tully and Chad Leahy

On Good Friday, 1626, Franciscus Quaresmius delivered a sermon in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem calling on King Philip IV of Spain to …

Amanda L. Scott, "The Basque Seroras: Local Religion, Gender, and Power in Northern Iberia, 1550-1800" (Cornell UP, 2020)

July 21, 2020

The Basque Seroras

Amanda L. Scott

Amanda L. Scott’s book, The Basque Seroras: Local Religion, Gender, and Power in Northern Iberia, 1550-1800 (Cornell University Press, 2020), focuses …

Nicholas R. Jones, "Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performance of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2019)

March 20, 2020

Staging Habla de Negros

Nicholas R. Jones

Nicholas R. Jones’s book, Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performance of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain (Pennsylvania State University Pr…

Nicholas R. Jones, "Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performance of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2019)

March 20, 2020

Staging Habla de Negros

Nicholas R. Jones

Nicholas R. Jones’s book, Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performance of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain (Penn State University Press, 201…

Emily Colbert Cairns, "Esther in Early Modern Iberia and the Sephardic Diaspora: Queen of the Conversas" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)

January 23, 2020

Esther in Early Modern Iberia and the Sephardic Diaspora

Emily Colbert Cairns

Emily Colbert Cairns’ book, Esther in Early Modern Iberia and the Sephardic Diaspora: Queen of the Conversas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), traces the bi…