Richard Kagan
Richard Lauren Kagan 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.
Born in 1943, he has been a professor at Johns Hopkins University since 1972. His work has given him international recognition. he has been invited to deliver speeches about his work in Spain and France.
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. He is a supporter of the hypothesis of the black legend.Publications
- Students and Society in Early Modern Spain 234
- Lawsuits and Litigants in Castile, 1500-1700 567
- Lucrecia’s Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain 8910111213
- Urban Images of the Hispanic World, 1493-1793 1415
- Spanish Cities of the Golden Age 16
- Spain, Europe, and the Atlantic World, con Geoffrey Parker1718
- Spain in America: The Origins of Hispanism in the United States
- Inquisitorial Inquiries: The Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics 202122
- Atlantic Diasporas: Jews, Conversos and Crypto-Jews, the Age of Mercantilism, con Philip D. Morgan232425262728
- Clio and the Crown: The Politics of History in Medieval and Early Modern Spain, Johns Hopkins University Press2930
