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Lisa Kattenberg is a historian specializing in early modern political culture and ideas, with a particular interest in the Spanish Empire and the Low Countries. Her book, 'Power and Necessity: The Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, ca 1590-1650', published by Cambridge University Press in 2023 as part of the series 'Ideas in Context', examines how individuals negotiated the tension between political pragmatism and moral-religious principles under the pressures of empire. Currently, her research focuses on the (intellectual) conflicts and exchanges within the early modern Iberian world and the colonial Low Countries, particularly concerning European-Indigenous encounters and the politics of archival silences. She is particularly interested in the connections between the Dutch Revolt and the Chilean Arauco War, and the interactions between the Spanish, Dutch, and Mapuche peoples.
University of Amsterdam • Amsterdam
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