Cristian Berco
Biographic Data
| ID | 1531007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cristian Berco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cristian |
| FAMILY NAME | Berco |
| SIGNATURE | BERCO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bishop's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Carolin Schmitz, Los enfermos en la España barroca y el pluralismo médico. Espacios, estrategias y actitudes
In her debut monograph, Carolin Schmitz provides a welcome and sophisticated analysis of early modern Spanish patients’ healthcare choices, practices and attitudes. That this work is based on a prize-winning dissertation is evident: not only has she managed to unearth the patient’s voice from a variety of sources, but she has mined this evidence with a keen eye to ongoing debates and a penchant for innovative methodologies. Schmitz mainly relies …
Sexual Hierarchies, Public Status: Men, Sodomy, and Society in Spain's Golden Age
Perception and the Mulatto Body in Inquisitorial Spain: A Neurohistory
On 1 July 1625, their hands issuing from Dominican cloaks as black as night, inquisitors in Madrid voted to arrest Luisa Nuñez on suspicion of practising love magic and divination using a stolen altar stone. 1 It fell to the inquisitorial secretary Gaspar Isidro de Argüello to lead the arrest. Since witnesses had provided no physical description of the suspect, all Argüello had to go by was a name and address. Despite this lack of information, on…
The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada , by Joanne Rappaport
The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada, by Joanne Rappaport. Durham & London, Duke University Press, 2014. xiv, 352 pp. $94.93 US (cloth), $25.95 US (paper). Even if aware of the historical fluidity of racial categories, we live in such race-conscious contemporary societies, that it is hard to detach ourselves from the epistemological assumptions that inform such labels. No matter the ease with whi…
The Great Pox, Symptoms, and Social Bodies in Early Modern Spain
The Great Pox marked the early modern era. Not only did this chronic disease lead to long-term shifts in medical knowledge, but it also reached across the social spectrum to touch individuals, families, and communities of all guises. As such, pox infection reflected the complexity of managing symptoms that were at once medically and socially evaluated. This article explores the social and cultural meanings attached to the poxed body through an an…
Nothing Natural Is Shameful: Sodomy and Science in Late Medieval Europe
Joan Cadden. Nothing Natural Is Shameful: Sodomy and Science in Late Medieval Europe. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 328 pp. $85. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4537-0. - Volume 67 Issue 4
Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal: Inquisitors, Doctors and the Transgression of Gender Norms
Journal Article Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal: Inquisitors, Doctors and the Transgression of Gender Norms Get access François Soyer. Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal: Inquisitors, Doctors and the Transgression of Gender Norms. Leiden, Brill, 2012. xvi, 328 pp., illus., $171.00. Cristian Berco, Ph.D. Cristian Berco, Ph.D. Department of History, Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, Quebec, CanadaJ1M 1Z7. cberco@…
Syphilis, Sex, and Marriage in Early Modern Spain
Although scholarship on the early modern syphilis epidemic has greatly increased our understanding of the medical, institutional, and individual responses to this illness, little is known about patients’ familial and personal lives beyond the hospital walls. Examining patients treated at Toledo’s Hospital de Santiago in the mid-seventeenth century, this article analyzes their attitudes towards sexuality and marriage as they lived with chronic ven…
Textiles as Social Texts: Syphilis, Material Culture and Gender in Golden Age Spain
Whereas traditional social and health histories have viewed the garments of early modern patients accessing hospital care as evidence of their poverty, this article reinterprets the meaning of patient clothing in the context of a venereal disease hospital in Toledo, Spain, in the seventeenth century. Patients carefully selected what they wore as they entered the hospital to produce certain effects on local audiences. Thus, these choices can be un…
Producing Patriarchy: Male Sodomy and Gender in Early Modern Spain
Producing Patriarchy: Male Sodomy and Gender in Early Modern Spain Cristian Berco (bio) The recent shift in the history of homosexuality from an essentialist-constructionist debate that sought to find the historical origins of a gay identity into a field dominated by queer studies—an amalgam of theoretical positions that tend to stress the importance of difference as a tool for understanding and even challenging heteronormativity—means that the r…
Sexual Hierarchies, Public Status: Men, Sodomy, and Society in Spain’s Golden Age
By focusing on how hierarchies were created both within sexual relationships and in the public eye, this investigation traces the significance of homosexual desire in the context of daily social relations informed by status, ethnic, religious, and national differences.
Social Control and Its Limits: Sodomy, Local Sexual Economies, and Inquisitors during Spain's Golden Age
This article explores the Aragonese Inquisition and its prosecution of homosexual sodomy in terms of the types of men tried and the attitudes of both local denouncers and inquisitorial magistrates, given the important separation of the judicial process into denunciation and trial. The diverging views regarding sexuality and deviance between Aragonese peoples and the judges manning the tribunals of Barcelona, Valencia, and Zaragoza meant that both…
Perfect Wives, Other Women: Adultery and Inquisition in Early Modern Spain , by Georgina Dopico Black
Revealing the Other: Moriscos, Crime, and Local Politics in Toledo's Hinterland in the Late Sixteenth-Century
This study examines the treatment of Moriscos in local secular courts as a barometer of their situation in late sixteenth-century Castile. Focusing on a 1575 criminal case in the Toledan village of Yebenes where three Morisco men were accused, and eventually acquitted, of murdering a Christian child found dead in a well, it argues that the impulse to discriminate against them based on prevailing constructions of Moriscos as "others" was diluted i…
Silencing the Unmentionable: Non-Reproductive Sex and the Creation of a Civilized Argentina, 1860-1900
In 1886 the Argentine Congress adopted a new penal code for the country which replaced the existing, and often contradictory, maze of colonial laws and local bandos —ad hoc decrees—that had hitherto regulated criminal procedure. Although it is worth examining the provisions of the Código Penal as a fruitful indication of nineteenth-century legal development that witnessed an increasing centralization of power by the Argentine state, scholars have…
Producing Patriarchy: Male Sodomy and Gender in Early Modern Spain
Producing Patriarchy: Male Sodomy and Gender in Early Modern Spain Cristian Berco (bio) The recent shift in the history of homosexuality from an essentialist-constructionist debate that sought to find the historical origins of a gay identity into a field dominated by queer studies—an amalgam of theoretical positions that tend to stress the importance of difference as a tool for understanding and even challenging heteronormativity—means that the r…
Silencing the Unmentionable: Non-Reproductive Sex and the Creation of a Civilized Argentina, 1860-1900
In 1886 the Argentine Congress adopted a new penal code for the country which replaced the existing, and often contradictory, maze of colonial laws and local bandos —ad hoc decrees—that had hitherto regulated criminal procedure. Although it is worth examining the provisions of the Código Penal as a fruitful indication of nineteenth-century legal development that witnessed an increasing centralization of power by the Argentine state, scholars have…
The Great Pox, Symptoms, and Social Bodies in Early Modern Spain
The Great Pox marked the early modern era. Not only did this chronic disease lead to long-term shifts in medical knowledge, but it also reached across the social spectrum to touch individuals, families, and communities of all guises. As such, pox infection reflected the complexity of managing symptoms that were at once medically and socially evaluated. This article explores the social and cultural meanings attached to the poxed body through an an…
Social Control and Its Limits: Sodomy, Local Sexual Economies, and Inquisitors during Spain's Golden Age
This article explores the Aragonese Inquisition and its prosecution of homosexual sodomy in terms of the types of men tried and the attitudes of both local denouncers and inquisitorial magistrates, given the important separation of the judicial process into denunciation and trial. The diverging views regarding sexuality and deviance between Aragonese peoples and the judges manning the tribunals of Barcelona, Valencia, and Zaragoza meant that both…
Revealing the Other: Moriscos, Crime, and Local Politics in Toledo's Hinterland in the Late Sixteenth-Century
This study examines the treatment of Moriscos in local secular courts as a barometer of their situation in late sixteenth-century Castile. Focusing on a 1575 criminal case in the Toledan village of Yebenes where three Morisco men were accused, and eventually acquitted, of murdering a Christian child found dead in a well, it argues that the impulse to discriminate against them based on prevailing constructions of Moriscos as "others" was diluted i…
Silencing the Unmentionable: Non-Reproductive Sex and the Creation of a Civilized Argentina, 1860-1900
In 1886 the Argentine Congress adopted a new penal code for the country which replaced the existing, and often contradictory, maze of colonial laws and local bandos —ad hoc decrees—that had hitherto regulated criminal procedure. Although it is worth examining the provisions of the Código Penal as a fruitful indication of nineteenth-century legal development that witnessed an increasing centralization of power by the Argentine state, scholars have…
Perfect Wives, Other Women: Adultery and Inquisition in Early Modern Spain , by Georgina Dopico Black
Social Control and Its Limits: Sodomy, Local Sexual Economies, and Inquisitors during Spain's Golden Age
This article explores the Aragonese Inquisition and its prosecution of homosexual sodomy in terms of the types of men tried and the attitudes of both local denouncers and inquisitorial magistrates, given the important separation of the judicial process into denunciation and trial. The diverging views regarding sexuality and deviance between Aragonese peoples and the judges manning the tribunals of Barcelona, Valencia, and Zaragoza meant that both…
Sexual Hierarchies, Public Status: Men, Sodomy, and Society in Spain’s Golden Age
By focusing on how hierarchies were created both within sexual relationships and in the public eye, this investigation traces the significance of homosexual desire in the context of daily social relations informed by status, ethnic, religious, and national differences.
Producing Patriarchy: Male Sodomy and Gender in Early Modern Spain
Producing Patriarchy: Male Sodomy and Gender in Early Modern Spain Cristian Berco (bio) The recent shift in the history of homosexuality from an essentialist-constructionist debate that sought to find the historical origins of a gay identity into a field dominated by queer studies—an amalgam of theoretical positions that tend to stress the importance of difference as a tool for understanding and even challenging heteronormativity—means that the r…
Syphilis, Sex, and Marriage in Early Modern Spain
Although scholarship on the early modern syphilis epidemic has greatly increased our understanding of the medical, institutional, and individual responses to this illness, little is known about patients’ familial and personal lives beyond the hospital walls. Examining patients treated at Toledo’s Hospital de Santiago in the mid-seventeenth century, this article analyzes their attitudes towards sexuality and marriage as they lived with chronic ven…
Textiles as Social Texts: Syphilis, Material Culture and Gender in Golden Age Spain
Whereas traditional social and health histories have viewed the garments of early modern patients accessing hospital care as evidence of their poverty, this article reinterprets the meaning of patient clothing in the context of a venereal disease hospital in Toledo, Spain, in the seventeenth century. Patients carefully selected what they wore as they entered the hospital to produce certain effects on local audiences. Thus, these choices can be un…
The Great Pox, Symptoms, and Social Bodies in Early Modern Spain
The Great Pox marked the early modern era. Not only did this chronic disease lead to long-term shifts in medical knowledge, but it also reached across the social spectrum to touch individuals, families, and communities of all guises. As such, pox infection reflected the complexity of managing symptoms that were at once medically and socially evaluated. This article explores the social and cultural meanings attached to the poxed body through an an…
Nothing Natural Is Shameful: Sodomy and Science in Late Medieval Europe
Joan Cadden. Nothing Natural Is Shameful: Sodomy and Science in Late Medieval Europe. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 328 pp. $85. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4537-0. - Volume 67 Issue 4
Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal: Inquisitors, Doctors and the Transgression of Gender Norms
Journal Article Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal: Inquisitors, Doctors and the Transgression of Gender Norms Get access François Soyer. Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal: Inquisitors, Doctors and the Transgression of Gender Norms. Leiden, Brill, 2012. xvi, 328 pp., illus., $171.00. Cristian Berco, Ph.D. Cristian Berco, Ph.D. Department of History, Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, Quebec, CanadaJ1M 1Z7. cberco@…
The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada , by Joanne Rappaport
The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada, by Joanne Rappaport. Durham & London, Duke University Press, 2014. xiv, 352 pp. $94.93 US (cloth), $25.95 US (paper). Even if aware of the historical fluidity of racial categories, we live in such race-conscious contemporary societies, that it is hard to detach ourselves from the epistemological assumptions that inform such labels. No matter the ease with whi…
Sexual Hierarchies, Public Status: Men, Sodomy, and Society in Spain's Golden Age
Perception and the Mulatto Body in Inquisitorial Spain: A Neurohistory
On 1 July 1625, their hands issuing from Dominican cloaks as black as night, inquisitors in Madrid voted to arrest Luisa Nuñez on suspicion of practising love magic and divination using a stolen altar stone. 1 It fell to the inquisitorial secretary Gaspar Isidro de Argüello to lead the arrest. Since witnesses had provided no physical description of the suspect, all Argüello had to go by was a name and address. Despite this lack of information, on…
Carolin Schmitz, Los enfermos en la España barroca y el pluralismo médico. Espacios, estrategias y actitudes
In her debut monograph, Carolin Schmitz provides a welcome and sophisticated analysis of early modern Spanish patients’ healthcare choices, practices and attitudes. That this work is based on a prize-winning dissertation is evident: not only has she managed to unearth the patient’s voice from a variety of sources, but she has mined this evidence with a keen eye to ongoing debates and a penchant for innovative methodologies. Schmitz mainly relies …
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