<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dear Friends and Colleagues,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I’m pleased to announce the publication of <i>Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire </i>(Ashgate, 2014)<i>.</i> Three of the twelve articles that the book collects deal with seventeenth-century theater and medicine and may be of interest to you.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Tayra Lanuza writes about astrological medicine (i.e. using astrological observation to inform treatments) in "<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Dramatic Culture of Astrological Medicine in Early Modern Spain."</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div>Maríaluz López-Terrada shows how different dramatic sub-genres represent illnesses differently in "<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">‘Sallow-faced girl, either it’s love or you’ve been eating clay’: The Representation of Illness in the Golden Age Theater.” </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 254, 254);">I examine how the theatrical elements of alchemical or “</span>chemical” medicine made medical advancements appealing to preachers and theologians in "<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Theological Drama of Chymical Medicine in Early Modern Spain.” It includes a rare case history of an actor being treated with novel medical therapies during the seventeenth century! Please contact me directly at jslater@ucdavis.edu if you’d like a pdf offprint.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Also of interest to AHCT members is M.A. Katritzky’s study of the “wild men” and “wild women” (generally people with hypertrichosis, causing hair to grow all over their bodies) who became objects of fascination at European courts and in print. The chapter is entitled: "<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Literary Anthropologies and Pedro González, the ‘Wild Man’ of Tenerife."</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Complete information (including a link to the introduction and index) can be found at: <a href="http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472428134" style="color: purple;">http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472428134</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The book is expensive, but I’m happy to share a discount code for 50% off; just contact me at: jslater@ucdavis.edu. Of course, feel free to contact me if you’d like to know more or have any questions.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Take care,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">John</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">John Slater<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="http://spanish.ucdavis.edu/"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Department of Spanish and Portuguese</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">University of California, Davis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">607 Sproul Hall<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Davis, CA 95616<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://awc.ucdavis.edu/MakeAGift.aspx?alloccat=161011000&alloc=SACVVRS&appeal=W2014"><span style="text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px;">Support Spanish at UCDavis</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br></p></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div></body></html>