Works-in-Progress Session: Celestial Authority: Regulating Astrological Practice and Print in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Spain

Presented by Adela McKay, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles

Presented online via Zoom meeting. Please register to attend:
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Through cases involving the Spanish Inquisition and printing licenses, this talk examines how celestial authority was constructed and negotiated in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Spain in relation to institutional scrutiny, social reputation, and expertise.

Adela McKay is a Ph.D. candidate in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UCLA. Her research focuses on early modern Spanish literature and culture, particularly the relationship between astrology, and intellectual authority in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Spain.

Image: “The Weighing of Worlds,” frontispiece to Giovanni Battista, Almagestum novum, 1651.