Our guest today takes into the world of women and war in Habsburg Spain. Sandra Suárez García is a Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Modern and American History at the University of Granada in Spain. She studied History as an undergraduate at the University of Santiago de Compostela before earning two MA degrees at the University of Granada. She earned her PhD in History and Arts at Granada with a dissertation titled "Aristocratic Property in the Kingdom of Granada (13th-16th centuries): The Vega and the Periurban Surroundings of the Capital." Her current project, "Women and War in Habsburg Spain (16th century): Theory, Law and Praxis," is part of the research project "Narrations, Discourses, and Management of Memory and the Past of Agents and Intermediaries in the Hispanic Monarchy" (Europeans always have such long titles for these big projects!). Sandra is also a member of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology Action working group titled “People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean." She has published over a dozen articles in journals such as Historia Medieval and Medievalismo, and she has numerous articles currently under review in English and Spanish. She is fluent in four languages and reads a few more. She's participated in study programs in Germany, Italy, and Tunisia and was a visiting scholar at the University of Bologna (Italy).

Join us for a delightful and interesting chat - we'll discuss women, war, and the historical record in the 16th century, reading about medicinal plants, pastel de natas, growing up in Germany then going to school in Spain. This is a fun one, spiked with some intense historical stuff!

Rec.: 12/15/2023