Relativity and Román Ramírez: What Can We Know about the Past?

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Presentation

Abstract

This talk uses the historical figure of Román Ramírez (1540-99), a Spanish Morisco from the small town of Deza, to engage the issue of the nature of our knowledge of the past. That knowledge is fundamentally limited by (and relative to) the sources that exist, but when those sources are themselves contradictory or untrustworthy, historians must engage with them in more complex ways. Ramírez's inquisitorial trial record provides a fascinating example of that process.

Publication Date

3-5-2018

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