THEM LAB

Textualities in Hispanic Early Modernity

Within the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University, our THEM Lab is a platform for talks, worshops, scholarly notes, editions, and visualizations of Early Modern texts.

  • Talks and workshops in Spring 2025

Xevi Camprubí (UA Barcelona), “Fuentes para el estudio de la imprenta y prensa en la Época Moderna en los archivos de Cataluña”

Video & Materiales (pronto)

 

Eulàlia Miralles (Uni Valencia), “Morir como un rey. Pácticas funerarias ern la Edad Moderna”

Video & Materiales (pronto)

 

  • Current Projects

Urban semitiotics and colonial Lima population c. 1610-1615

  • Slides & annotations

Inés Apaya: pobladores urbanos en Lima 1613.
Urban Dwellers in Lima 1613.
Understanding Lima as a city of indigenous migrants. Brief story of Inés Apaya, indigenous woman that migrated from Chincha to Lima, lives on El cercado Street and works as a seamstress in 1613. Short text taken from Miguel de Contreras, Padrón de Indios (Indian Census) of 1613.

January 2025. DOI.

 

Indigenous Lima in 1770: rope bridge connecting the road to the valley of Lurigancho and the Indian quarter, El Cercado.

Manuscript map by Nicolas Mendizabal, 1770 in the Archivo cartográfico del Ejército, Madrid, Spain.

July 2024. DOI.