Adrian Masters
Project leader in the Department of History at Trier University and historian of 16th-century Spanish royal legislation and political culture, author of We the King; co-author of The Radical Spanish Empire.
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Mar 13, 2026 • 1h 44min
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Adrian Masters, "The Radical Spanish Empire: How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World" (Harvard UP, 2026)
Adrian Masters, a historian of 16th-century Spanish legislation, and Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, an Atlantic and Spanish Americas scholar, discuss how paperwork reshaped power in the New World. They explore petitions driving royal decrees, lawfare and forum shopping, women’s testimony topping elites, vernacular skepticism, and how archives and documents fueled political and technical change.
