Stuart M Mcmanu
Biographic Data
| ID | 702199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stuart M Mcmanu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stuart M |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcmanu |
| SIGNATURE | MCMANU S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3874-0253 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction
This introduction situates the “Jesuit Digital Reformation” special issue within the long arc of Jesuit engagement with technology, beginning with Roberto Busa, S.J., and his pioneering Index Thomisticus , the first major digital humanities project. It highlights how Busa’s methodological insistence on comprehensive, computationally enhanced philology continues to inform current debates about data quality, responsible AI use, and the role of the …
New Perspectives in Global Latin
Concluding Essay
This concluding essay reflects on the relationship between intellectual life and state building as elucidated by the essays in this special issue on Humanism in Greater Venice. Drawing comparisons with Asian empires and the Hispanic Monarchy (often called the ‘Spanish Empire’) in the Americas and elsewhere, it argues that we must be alive to the precise nature of the state championed by humanist writers and to eschew value‐laden terms that are no…
John D. Blanco. Counter-Hispanization in the Colonial Philippines
Multiethnic Slavery and the African Diaspora in Macau
The geographic limits of early American history are continuously being debated. Recently, this has culminated in the popular adoption of the expression "vast early America," which looks beyond the previously dominant Atlantic paradigm to embrace hemispheric perspectives while underlining the need to delve more into continental Africa, the Mediterranean, Eurasia, and the Pacific and Indian Ocean worlds. But what are the limits of this widening his…
Maruose de wenxue shijie = 馬若瑟的文學世界= The Literary World of Joseph de Prémare, written by Sher-shiueh Li 李奭學
Arming Slaves in Early Modern Maritime Asia
While there are large literatures on both Islamic slave soldiers and the phenomenon of “arming slaves” in the Atlantic world, military slavery in early modern Asia is still poorly understood. Using a variety of Chinese, Latin, Spanish, and Portuguese sources, this article will argue that enslaved labour was frequently directed towards violence across early modern Asia, colonial or otherwise. At the same time, the phenomenon was far from uniform i…
Regimes of Bondage
This special issue focuses on the broader context and interconnectedness of different slave regimes in early modern Asia. Various transnational commercial and imperial projects influenced the waxing and waning of individual slave regimes, while internal and interpersonal conditions within polities also played important roles. The well-known European seaborne empires of Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and England were major drivers of this early…
A Plea for Openness and Debate
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Polemics, Literature, and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Mexico
Since high intellectual history is something of a niche interest compared to ethnohistory and more recently Afro-Latin American history, it is rare for historians of colonial Latin America to place their work in the context of the “Republic of Letters.” This is a pity, since—as this book shows—scholars in the eighteenth-century Viceroyalty of New Spain were, both in practice and in terms of their self-professed identity, members of a distinguishe…
Slavery and the African Diaspora Beyond the Atlantic
Historians have been chipping away at the edges of Atlantic history for some time now.1 This has produced a vision of the transatlantic slave trade that is no longer just deeply rooted in the Americas while merely brushing the surface of Africa. Rather, historians are addressing ever more seriously the specifically African dynamics of the ocean’s traffic in human misery, while also acknowledging the mobility and longevity of African culture.2 Ind…
A (Dis)entangled History of Early Modern Cannibalism
This article offers a new approach to early modern global history, dubbed (dis)entangled history as a way to combine the conventional focus on the history of connections with a necessary appreciation of the elements of disconnection and disintegration. To exemplify this approach, it offers a case study related to the history of cannibalism as both a disputed anthropophagic practice and a cultural reference point across the early modern world. Thr…
Decolonizing Renaissance Humanism
This article traces the origins of the Eurocentric vision of Renaissance humanism and shows that in fact the revival of letters in thirteenth-century Italy had a much wider impact than traditionally thought. This "decolonized" vision of Renaissance humanism is centered on three trends: imperial humanism (humanist ideas of empire, both within and beyond the metropole), Indo-humanism (syncretic humanisms, especially in Asia and the Americas), and p…
Empire of Eloquence
The global reach of the Spanish and Portuguese empires prompted a remarkable flourishing of the classical rhetorical tradition in various parts of the early modern world. Empire of Eloquence is the first study to examine this tradition as part of a wider global renaissance in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa, with a particular focus on the Iberian world. Spanning the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, the book argues that the class…
Late-Humanism and Revolutionary Eloquence
This article reconstructs the context of the first Boston Massacre Oration delivered by James Lovell. It argues that Lovell's rhetorical education and oratorical practice were primarily an offshoot of a classicizing renaissance tradition transmitted by the colonial colleges that faded, blurred and was repurposed in the eighteenth century
The Empire of Apostles
institutional evolution of the University of San Marcos up until the promulga tion of its bylaws by Viceroy Francisco de Toledo (r.1569-81) in 1581, no mention is made to its fierce competition for students with the Jesuit college, which prompted Toledo to shut down San Pablo to avoid students preferring it over the university.Although the College of San Pablo reopened its doors in 1582, it was from then on demoted to a mere secondary school, and…
Partus Sequitur Ventrem in Theory and Practice
Whereas partus sequitur ventrem (“the birth follows the womb”) laws and their effects on the lives of enslaved women and their children are well understood in the Atlantic context, they remain entirely unstudied in the case of the slave trade in Asia, in particular Portuguese Asia, the string of entrepôts between India and Japan. Focusing on Portuguese Asia between c . 1550 and 1750, this article relies on a little‐known corpus of manuscript trea…
Iberian World Empires and the Globalization of Europe 1415–1668
This expansive history of the relationship between early modern globalization and Iberian empire began life as a translation and expansion of the author's 2004 study, Marte contra Minerva: El precio del imperio español, c. 1450–1600. Between then and now, it has blossomed into a new synthesis of the political economy of the Iberian world during its centuries of rapid expansion, geopolitical vigor, and eventual crisis that breaks out of traditiona…
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Originally published in 1995 at the height of the controversy surrounding the beatification (1990) and eventual canonization (2002) of Juan Diego, Stafford Poole's study of the historical evidence in both Spanish and Nahuatl for the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego in 1531 is now available in a revised edition. As well as showing definitively that the standard account of the apparition was an invention of the mid-seventeenth cent…
Hip–hop historiography
Eloquence and ethnohistory
After the Seven Years’ War, imperial players found much to commemorate. Works of art depicting anxious moments of preparation and flurries of dramatic military maneuvering abound. For those in both
The Exemplary Power of Antiquity
The Bibliotheca Mexicana Controversy and Creole Patriotism in Early Modern Mexico
This article offers a reassessment of the Bibliotheca Mexicana controversy (ca. 1745–1755), a key moment in the development of “creole patriotism” as most famously articulated by David A. Brading in The First America: The Spanish Monarchy, Creole Patriots, and the Liberal State 1492–1867 (1991). Through a rereading of the original sources and a reconstruction of the historiographical origins of creole patriotism in German existentialism, the arti…
The art of being a colonial letrado
This study treats the social and specifically urban context of late humanism in eighteenth-century Mexico City and New Spain. Through the careful reconstruction of the lives of particular scholars, it argues that the specific configuration of urban space (including colleges, libraries, print shops and personal dwellings) should be taken into account when understanding important monuments in the cultural history of Mexico, like the Bibliotheca Mex…
The Boxer Codex
The Boxer Codex: Transcription and Translation of an Illustrated Late Sixteenth-century Spanish Manuscript Concerning the Geography, Ethnography and History of the Pacific, South-East Asia and East Asia." Colonial Latin American Review, 26(4), pp. 550–551
Partus Sequitur Ventrem in Theory and Practice
Whereas partus sequitur ventrem (“the birth follows the womb”) laws and their effects on the lives of enslaved women and their children are well understood in the Atlantic context, they remain entirely unstudied in the case of the slave trade in Asia, in particular Portuguese Asia, the string of entrepôts between India and Japan. Focusing on Portuguese Asia between c . 1550 and 1750, this article relies on a little‐known corpus of manuscript trea…
The Bibliotheca Mexicana Controversy and Creole Patriotism in Early Modern Mexico
This article offers a reassessment of the Bibliotheca Mexicana controversy (ca. 1745–1755), a key moment in the development of “creole patriotism” as most famously articulated by David A. Brading in The First America: The Spanish Monarchy, Creole Patriots, and the Liberal State 1492–1867 (1991). Through a rereading of the original sources and a reconstruction of the historiographical origins of creole patriotism in German existentialism, the arti…
The Exemplary Power of Antiquity
The Renaissance of Empire in Early Modern Europe
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The art of being a colonial letrado
This study treats the social and specifically urban context of late humanism in eighteenth-century Mexico City and New Spain. Through the careful reconstruction of the lives of particular scholars, it argues that the specific configuration of urban space (including colleges, libraries, print shops and personal dwellings) should be taken into account when understanding important monuments in the cultural history of Mexico, like the Bibliotheca Mex…
The Boxer Codex
The Boxer Codex: Transcription and Translation of an Illustrated Late Sixteenth-century Spanish Manuscript Concerning the Geography, Ethnography and History of the Pacific, South-East Asia and East Asia." Colonial Latin American Review, 26(4), pp. 550–551
Hip–hop historiography
Eloquence and ethnohistory
After the Seven Years’ War, imperial players found much to commemorate. Works of art depicting anxious moments of preparation and flurries of dramatic military maneuvering abound. For those in both
The Exemplary Power of Antiquity
The Bibliotheca Mexicana Controversy and Creole Patriotism in Early Modern Mexico
This article offers a reassessment of the Bibliotheca Mexicana controversy (ca. 1745–1755), a key moment in the development of “creole patriotism” as most famously articulated by David A. Brading in The First America: The Spanish Monarchy, Creole Patriots, and the Liberal State 1492–1867 (1991). Through a rereading of the original sources and a reconstruction of the historiographical origins of creole patriotism in German existentialism, the arti…
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Originally published in 1995 at the height of the controversy surrounding the beatification (1990) and eventual canonization (2002) of Juan Diego, Stafford Poole's study of the historical evidence in both Spanish and Nahuatl for the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego in 1531 is now available in a revised edition. As well as showing definitively that the standard account of the apparition was an invention of the mid-seventeenth cent…
The Empire of Apostles
institutional evolution of the University of San Marcos up until the promulga tion of its bylaws by Viceroy Francisco de Toledo (r.1569-81) in 1581, no mention is made to its fierce competition for students with the Jesuit college, which prompted Toledo to shut down San Pablo to avoid students preferring it over the university.Although the College of San Pablo reopened its doors in 1582, it was from then on demoted to a mere secondary school, and…
Partus Sequitur Ventrem in Theory and Practice
Whereas partus sequitur ventrem (“the birth follows the womb”) laws and their effects on the lives of enslaved women and their children are well understood in the Atlantic context, they remain entirely unstudied in the case of the slave trade in Asia, in particular Portuguese Asia, the string of entrepôts between India and Japan. Focusing on Portuguese Asia between c . 1550 and 1750, this article relies on a little‐known corpus of manuscript trea…
Iberian World Empires and the Globalization of Europe 1415–1668
This expansive history of the relationship between early modern globalization and Iberian empire began life as a translation and expansion of the author's 2004 study, Marte contra Minerva: El precio del imperio español, c. 1450–1600. Between then and now, it has blossomed into a new synthesis of the political economy of the Iberian world during its centuries of rapid expansion, geopolitical vigor, and eventual crisis that breaks out of traditiona…
Empire of Eloquence
The global reach of the Spanish and Portuguese empires prompted a remarkable flourishing of the classical rhetorical tradition in various parts of the early modern world. Empire of Eloquence is the first study to examine this tradition as part of a wider global renaissance in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa, with a particular focus on the Iberian world. Spanning the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, the book argues that the class…
Late-Humanism and Revolutionary Eloquence
This article reconstructs the context of the first Boston Massacre Oration delivered by James Lovell. It argues that Lovell's rhetorical education and oratorical practice were primarily an offshoot of a classicizing renaissance tradition transmitted by the colonial colleges that faded, blurred and was repurposed in the eighteenth century
Slavery and the African Diaspora Beyond the Atlantic
Historians have been chipping away at the edges of Atlantic history for some time now.1 This has produced a vision of the transatlantic slave trade that is no longer just deeply rooted in the Americas while merely brushing the surface of Africa. Rather, historians are addressing ever more seriously the specifically African dynamics of the ocean’s traffic in human misery, while also acknowledging the mobility and longevity of African culture.2 Ind…
A (Dis)entangled History of Early Modern Cannibalism
This article offers a new approach to early modern global history, dubbed (dis)entangled history as a way to combine the conventional focus on the history of connections with a necessary appreciation of the elements of disconnection and disintegration. To exemplify this approach, it offers a case study related to the history of cannibalism as both a disputed anthropophagic practice and a cultural reference point across the early modern world. Thr…
Decolonizing Renaissance Humanism
This article traces the origins of the Eurocentric vision of Renaissance humanism and shows that in fact the revival of letters in thirteenth-century Italy had a much wider impact than traditionally thought. This "decolonized" vision of Renaissance humanism is centered on three trends: imperial humanism (humanist ideas of empire, both within and beyond the metropole), Indo-humanism (syncretic humanisms, especially in Asia and the Americas), and p…
Maruose de wenxue shijie = 馬若瑟的文學世界= The Literary World of Joseph de Prémare, written by Sher-shiueh Li 李奭學
Arming Slaves in Early Modern Maritime Asia
While there are large literatures on both Islamic slave soldiers and the phenomenon of “arming slaves” in the Atlantic world, military slavery in early modern Asia is still poorly understood. Using a variety of Chinese, Latin, Spanish, and Portuguese sources, this article will argue that enslaved labour was frequently directed towards violence across early modern Asia, colonial or otherwise. At the same time, the phenomenon was far from uniform i…
Regimes of Bondage
This special issue focuses on the broader context and interconnectedness of different slave regimes in early modern Asia. Various transnational commercial and imperial projects influenced the waxing and waning of individual slave regimes, while internal and interpersonal conditions within polities also played important roles. The well-known European seaborne empires of Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and England were major drivers of this early…
A Plea for Openness and Debate
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Polemics, Literature, and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Mexico
Since high intellectual history is something of a niche interest compared to ethnohistory and more recently Afro-Latin American history, it is rare for historians of colonial Latin America to place their work in the context of the “Republic of Letters.” This is a pity, since—as this book shows—scholars in the eighteenth-century Viceroyalty of New Spain were, both in practice and in terms of their self-professed identity, members of a distinguishe…
John D. Blanco. Counter-Hispanization in the Colonial Philippines
Multiethnic Slavery and the African Diaspora in Macau
The geographic limits of early American history are continuously being debated. Recently, this has culminated in the popular adoption of the expression "vast early America," which looks beyond the previously dominant Atlantic paradigm to embrace hemispheric perspectives while underlining the need to delve more into continental Africa, the Mediterranean, Eurasia, and the Pacific and Indian Ocean worlds. But what are the limits of this widening his…
New Perspectives in Global Latin
Concluding Essay
This concluding essay reflects on the relationship between intellectual life and state building as elucidated by the essays in this special issue on Humanism in Greater Venice. Drawing comparisons with Asian empires and the Hispanic Monarchy (often called the ‘Spanish Empire’) in the Americas and elsewhere, it argues that we must be alive to the precise nature of the state championed by humanist writers and to eschew value‐laden terms that are no…
History (22 works) · Law (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · History (13 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Art (12 works) · Archaeology (11 works) · Ancient history (9 works) · Literature (9 works) · Sociology (9 works)