Скачать или смотреть Fernando Cervantes: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest

Dr. Fernando Cervantes is a historian of early modern Europe at the University of Bristol in the UK. He specializes in the intellectual and religious history of early modern Spain and Spanish America. Between 2005 and 2008 he was principal investigator of a major Leverhulme Research Project entitled The Celestial and the Fallen: Angels and Demons in the Hispanic World. With Dr Andrew Redden of Liverpool University, he is currently completing work on a co-authored monograph. A co-edited collection of essays entitled Angels, Demons and the New World was published by Cambridge University Press in 2013. His most recent book, Conquistadores: A New History, was published by Allen Lane/Penguin in 2020 and by Viking in 2021. Longer term projects include a study of the literary imagination of early modern Europe that seeks to place the works of Montaigne, Cervantes and Shakespeare in the wider context of early modern humanism and the epistemological crisis of the early seventeenth century. Dr Cervantes was the John Coffin Memorial Lecturer in the History of Ideas at the University of London in 2005 and has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA, and the Liguria Study Centre for the Arts and the Humanities, Bogliasco, Italy. In the Spring quarter of 2009 he held the Tipton Distinguished Visiting Chair at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was also Series Editor for Pickering and Chatto's (now Routledge) "Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World" until 2018.

Cervantes' "Conquistadores" book: https://tinyurl.com/mwcvrzfy.
About EISM: www.eism.eu/about
Support: www.eism.eu/support

Timestamps:

00:00 -- Introductory EISM sequence
00:27 -- Introduction to Cervantes' background
03:25 -- Cervantes gives an overview of the book
05:35 -- Cervantes on the importance of context
06:20 -- Cervantes on the 3 major sections of the book
15:24 -- The root cause of indigenous marginalization
16:40 -- Why talk about the positive side of colonization?
20:28 -- The first critics of the conquisadores
24:30 -- The propoganda of William of Orange vs. Phillip II
25:55 -- The legacy of low self-esteem among the Spanish
32:33 -- The roots of the Catalán Independence movement
37:40 -- The multiple intellectual traditions of Europe
39:40 -- AMLO demands an apology from the king of Spain
42:24 -- Conclusion: the shortcomings of capitalism
43:20 -- The human existential crisis and the downside of empiricism
50:15 -- The biggest mistake of the Englightenment - Marxism
52:50 -- What does Cervantes propose as a solution?
58:18 -- The physics of attraction and repulsion as angels and demons