Valeria López-Fadul
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Valeria López-FadulWesleyan University Early Modern Spanish Empire Research Statement: My book project reconstructs the beliefs and practices with which sixteenth-century scholars sought to write the history of Spanish America’s multilingual domains. Using sources that range from literary works to scientific images, it argues that to those charged with extracting information from Spain’s empire, language was an archive of local knowledge. While at IAS: Full Year |
