Santa Clara University

Faculty & Staff - Lopez-Lazaro

History department
Professor Fabio Lopez-Lazaro 

Fabio López-Lázaro

Associate Professor
O'Connor Hall 19
tel (408)554-6846
fax (408)554-2181
flopezlazaro@scu.edu

 

My teaching and research interests focus on Spain's medieval and early modern political, maritime, and legal  interaction with its neighbors and the world after 1492. Apart from survey courses on European history, I currently teach classes on the history of piracy, ethnobotany, and sexuality, concentrating on the European and Islamic Mediterranean and the "New World" influenced by Iberian societies. The latest course I have developed, entitled "Spain and Morocco, 700-1700," explores the history of al-Andalus and the Maghrib, specifically the origins and demise of the culture of coexistence or convivencia which characterized Jewish, Christian and Muslim life in the Western Mediterranean until the 1500s. My most recent research interests have led to  publications investigating the impact of pre-Columbian Native American science on the development of sixteenth-century European botany, the odd and disastrous naval alliance pursued by Spain's Catholic monarchy with Protestant England and Holland in the seventeenth century, and a fascinating case study of Spanish imperial entanglement with worldwide piracy in the 1690s.

 Crime in Early Bourbon Madrid
Crime in Early Bourbon Madrid (2008)

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Courses

Cultures and Ideas 1 and 2: The Imperial West

History 106: A World History of Foods, Drugs, and Medicines

History 107: Spain and Morocco: Jews, Christians, and Muslims, 1300-1800

History 119: Sex, Family, and Crime in Mediterranean Europe, 1300-1800

History 122: Pirates of the Mediterranean, Pirates of the Caribbean, 1300-1800