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 under the Habsburgs.
Life and career Born in 1943, he holds an undergraduate degree from Columbia University and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Kagan has been a professor at Johns Hopkins University since 1972.«Richard Kagan». The Johns Hopkins University. April 25, 2018 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 and Literatures. 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, Centre national de la recherche scientifique and École des hautes études en sciences sociales).
Kagan is a resident member of the American Philosophical Society 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)234Owens, J. B. (1975). «Review of Students and Society in Early Modern Spain». The American Journal of Legal History 19 (4): 334-336. Lawsuits and Litigants in Castile, 1500-1700 (1981)567Clavero, Bartolomé (1982). «Review of Lawsuits and Litigants in Castile, 1500-1700». The Journal of Modern History 54 (3): 604-606. Lucrecia's Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain (1990) 8910111213Herr, Richard (1992). «Review of Lucrecia's Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain». The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 22 (3): 513-515. Urban Images of the Hispanic World, 1493-1793 (2000)1415Kagan, Richard L. (1990). Lucrecia's Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain (en inglés). University of California Press. Spanish Cities of the Golden Age (1989)16Mallory, Nina A. (1992). «Review of Spanish Cities of the Golden Age: The Views of Anton van den Wyngaerde». Renaissance Quarterly 45 (4): 859-862. Spain, Europe, and the Atlantic World: Essays in Honour of John H. Elliott (1995)1718, edited with Geoffrey ParkerSchwaller, John F. (1996). «Review of Spain, Europe and the Atlantic World: Essays in Honour of John H. Elliott». The Sixteenth Century Journal 27 (1): 185-187 Spain in America: The Origins of Hispanism in the United States (2002)Bleznick, Donald W. (2003). «Review of Spain in America: The Origins of Hispanism in the United States» Inquisitorial Inquiries: The Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics (2004)202122Petry, Yvonne (2006). «Review of Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews & Other Heretics». Journal of Church and State 48 (3): 695-697 Atlantic Diasporas: Jews, Conversos and Crypto-Jews in the Age of Mercantilism, 1500-1800 (2008), edited with Philip D. Morgan232425262728Schaposchnik, Ana (2011). «Review of Atlantic Diasporas: Jews, Conversos, and Crypto-Jews in the Age of Mercantilism, 1500-1800». Journal of World History 22 (4): 855-857 Clio 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
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