Rubiés, Joan-Pau

Dr Joan-Pau Rubiés

Department	Position held
Department of International History	Reader in International History

Experience keywords:

Catalonia; Early Modern European cultural and intellectual history; cultural encounters and early globalisation; history of the Crown of Aragon; early modern Spain

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Working on the history of early colonial empires, Dr Rubiés has written extensively about travel writing and cultural encounters in the Early Modern period, and about the impact of Renaissance ethnology in the intellectual culture of early modern Europe. Also specialised in the historiography and political thought of early modern Spain, with particular emphasis on Catalonia and the Crown of Aragon.

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Spain; Catalonia

Languages:

Italian [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Intermediate]; Catalan [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; Spanish [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; French [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]

Media experience:

Has written for mainstream press; Radio; TV

Contact Points
LSE phone number: +44 (0)20 7955 7325	LSE email: j.p.rubies@lse.ac.uk

Publications

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2012

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2012) From the history of travayle to the history of travel collections: the rise of an early modern genre. In: Carey, Daniel and Jowitt, Claire, (eds.) Richard Hakluyt and collected travel writing in Early Modern Europe. Ashgate, London, UK. ISBN 9781409400172

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2012) From antiquarianism to philosophical history: India, China and the World History of Religion in European Thought (1600-1770). In: Miller, Peter N. and Louis, François, (eds.) Antiquarianism and intellectual life in Early Modern Europe and China, 1500-1800. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, USA. ISBN 9780472118182

2011

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2011) The worlds of Europeans, Africans and Americans ca. 1490. In: Canny, Nicholas and Morgan, Philip, (eds.) The Oxford handbook of the Atlantic world . Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199210879

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2011) Rhetoric and ideology in the Book of Ramon Muntaner. Mediterranean historical review, 26 (1). pp. 1-29. ISSN 0951-8967

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2011) The European context of Don García de Silva y Figueroa’s embassy to Shah Abbas. In: Loureiro, Rui and Resende, Vasco, (eds.) Estudos sobre Don García de Silva y Figueroa e os “Comentarios” da embaixada à Persia. CHAM, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 86-133.

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2011) The concept of a gentile civilization in missionary discourse and its European reception: Mexico, Peru and China in the Repúblicas del Mundo by Jerónimo Román. In: de Castelnau, Charlotte and Copete, Marie-Lucie and Maldavski, Aliocha and Zupanov, Ines, (eds.) Missions d'évangélisation et circulation des savoirs XVIe-XVIIIe siècles. Casa de Velázquez, Madrid, Spain, pp. 289-328. ISBN 9788496820524

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2011) Ethnography, philosophy and the rise of natural man 1500-1750. In: Abbattista, Guido, (ed.) Encountering otherness. Diversities and trans-cultural experiences in early modern European culture. University of Trieste Press, Trieste, Italy, pp. 97-127. ISBN 9788883033063

2010

Calaresu, Melissa and de Vivo, Filippo and Rubiés, Joan-Pau, (eds.) (2010) Exploring cultural history: essays in honour of Peter Burke. Ashgate, Aldershot, UK. ISBN 9780754667506

Calaresu, Melissa and de Vivo, Filippo and Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2010) Introduction: Peter Burke and the history of cultural history. In: Calaresu, Melissa and de Vivo, Filippo and Rubiés, Joan-Pau, (eds.) Exploring cultural history: essays in honour of Peter Burke. Ashgate Publishing Limited, Franham, England, pp. 1-28. ISBN 9780754667506

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2010) Margaret Meserve, 'Empires of Islam in Renaissance historical thought' [book review]. The international history review, 32 (1). pp. 100-103. ISSN 0707-5332

2009

Rubiés, Joan-Pau, (ed.) (2009) Medieval ethnographies: European perceptions of the world beyond. Ashgate , Aldershot, UK. ISBN 9780754659556

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2009) Late medieval ambassadors and the practice of cross-cultural encounters, 1250-1450. In: Brummett, Palmira, (ed.) The 'book' of travels: genre, ethnology, and pilgrimage, 1250-1700. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 37-112. ISBN 9789004174986

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2009) Texts, images and the perception of ‘savages’ in Early Modern Europe: what we can learn from White and Harriot. In: Sloan, Kim, (ed.) European visions: American voices. British Museum, London, UK, pp. 120-130. ISBN 9780861591725

2008

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2008) Imagen mental e imagen artistica en la representacion de los pueblos no-europeos: salvajes y civilizados 1500-1650. In: Palos, Joan-Lluis and Carrio Invernizzi, Diana, (eds.) La historia imaginada. Construcciones visuales del pasado en la edad moderna. Centro de Estudios Europa Hispanica, Madrid, Spain, pp. 327-357. ISBN 9788493606039

2007

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2007) Travellers and cosmographers: studies in the history of early modern travel and ethnology. Ashgate, London, UK. ISBN 9780754659365

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2007) Daniel Castro, "Another face of empire. Bartolome de Las Casas, indigenous rights and ecclesiastical imperialism" [book review]. Journal of ecclesiastical history, 58 (4). pp. 767-768. ISSN 0022-0469

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2007) Atlantic Ocean: exploration voyages, 1330s-1480s. In: Hattendorf, John B., (ed.) The Oxford encyclopedia of maritime history. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 218-222. ISBN 9780195130751

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2007) Alejandro Cañeque, "The king's living image: the culture and politics of viceregal power in colonial Mexico" [book review]. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth history, 35 (2). pp. 303-305. ISSN 0308-6534

2006

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2006) Theology, ethnography, and the historicization of idolatry. Journal of the history of ideas, 67 (4). pp. 571-596. ISSN 0022-5037

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2006) Farhat Hasan, "State and locality in Mughal India. Power relations in western India" [book review]. Journal of early modern history: contacts, comparisons, contrasts, 10 (3). pp. 255-258. ISSN 1385-3783

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2006) Travel writing and humanistic culture: a blunted impact? Journal of early modern history: contacts, comparisons, contrasts, 10 (1-2). pp. 131-168. ISSN 1385-3783

2005

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2005) Hugh Thomas, "Rivers of gold. The rise of the Spanish empire" [book review]. European history quarterly, 35 (1). pp. 165-168. ISSN 0265-6914

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2005) The concept of cultural dialogue and the Jesuit method of accommodation: between idolatry and civilization. Archivium historicum societatis iesu, 74 (147). pp. 237-280. ISSN 0037-8887

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2005) Oriental despotism and European Orientalism: Botero to Montesquieu. Journal of early modern history: contacts, comparisons, contrasts, 9 (1-2). pp. 109-180. ISSN 1385-3783

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2005) Paula Findlen and Pamela Smith (eds.), "Merchants and marvels: commerce and the representation of nature in early modern Europe" [book review]. Isis, 96 (2). pp. 275-276. ISSN 0021-1753

2004

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2004) Susan Alcock, Terence N. D'Altroy, Kathleen D. Morison and Carla M. Sinopoli (eds.) "Empires: perspectives from archaeology and history" [book review]. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth history, 32 (1). pp. 115-118. ISSN 0308-6534

2003

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2003) Pedro de Cieza de León. In: Speake, Jennifer, (ed.) Literature of travel and exploration: an encyclopedia. Fitzroy Dearborn, London, UK, pp. 249-251. ISBN 9781579582470

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2003) Ludovico de Varthema. In: Speake, Jennifer, (ed.) Literature of travel and exploration: an encyclopedia. Fitzroy Dearborn, London, UK, pp. 1236-1236. ISBN 9781579582470

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2003) Pietro della Valle. In: Speake, Jennifer, (ed.) Literature of travel and exploration: an encyclopedia. Fitzroy Dearborn, London, UK. ISBN 9781579582470

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2003) The Spanish contribution to the ethnology of Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Renaissance studies, 17 (1). pp. 418-448. ISSN 0269-1213

2002

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2002) Travel writing and ethnography. In: Hulme, Peter and Youngs, Tim, (eds.) The Cambridge companion to travel writing. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., pp. 242-260. ISBN 9780521786522

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2002) Wes Williams, "Pilgramage and narrative in the French Renaissance: 'the undiscovered country'" [book review]. The international journal of travel & travel writing, 3 (1). pp. 164-166. ISSN 1465-2609

2001

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2001) Jennifer Goodman, "Chivalry and exploration" [book review]. Modern languages review, 95 (4). pp. 1169-1171. ISSN 0026-7937

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2001) Stella Fletcher, "The Longman companion to Renaissance Europe 1390-1530" [book review]. English historical review, 116 pp. 467-468. ISSN 0013-8266

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2001) The Jesuit discovery of Hinduism: Antonio Rubino's account of the history and religion of Vijayanagara (1608). Archiv für religionsgeschichte, 3 (1). pp. 210-256. ISSN 1436-3038

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2001) James Muldoon, "Empire and order: the concept of empire 800-1800" [book review]. The journal of Imperial and Commonwealth history, 29 (3). pp. 104-106. ISSN 0308-6534

2000

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2000) Travel and ethnology in the Renaissance: South India through European eyes, 1250–1625. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780521770552

Rubiés, Joan-Pau and Bacon, Francis (2000) Travel writing as a genre: facts, fictions and the invention of a scientific discourse in early modern Europe. The international journal of travel and travel writing, 5 (33). pp. 5-33. ISSN 1465-2609

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (2000) Geoffrey Parker, "The grand strategy of Philip II" [book review]. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth history, 28 (2). pp. 100-112. ISSN 0308-6534

1999

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (1999) Ian M. Higgins, "Writing East. The "travels" of Sir John Mandeville" [book review]. Modern languages review, 94 (3). pp. 780-781. ISSN 0026-7937

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (1999) La qüestió imperial en el pensament polític de la Catalunya moderna: història d'una absència. Manuscrits. Revista d'Història Moderna, 17 pp. 207-235. ISSN 0213-2397

Elsner, Jaś and Rubiés, Joan-Pau (1999) Voyages and visions. Towards a cultural history of travel. Reaktion Books, London. ISBN 9781861890207

Elsner, Jaś and Rubiés, Joan-Pau (1999) Introduction. In: Elsner, Jaś and Rubiés, Joan-Pau, (eds.) Voyages and visions: towards a cultural history of travel. Reaktion Books, London, pp. 1-56. ISBN 9781861890207

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (1999) Futility in the new world: narratives of travel in sixteenth-century America. In: Elsner, Jaś and Rubiés, Joan Pau, (eds.) Voyages and visions: towards a cultural history of travel. Reaktion Books, London, pp. 74-100. ISBN 9781861890207

1998

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (1998) Giovanni di Buonagrazia’s letter to his father concerning his participation in the second expedition of Vasco da Gama (1502-3). Mare liberum: revista de história dos mares [review of the history of the seas], 16 pp. 87-112. ISSN 0871-7788

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (1998) El constitucionalisme català en una perspectiva Europea: conceptes i trajectòries, segles XV-XVIII. Pedralbes: revista d'història moderna, 18 (2). pp. 453-474. ISSN 0211-9587

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (1998) V. Klinkenborg (ed.), "The Drake manuscript in the Pierpont Morgan library" [book review]. History, 83 (269). pp. 157-158. ISSN 1468-229X

1996

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (1996) Instructions for travellers: teaching the eye to see. History and anthropology, 9 (2-3). pp. 139-190. ISSN 0275-7206

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (1996) La idea del gobierno mixto y su significado en la crisis de la Monarquía Hispánica. Historia social, 24 pp. 57-81. ISSN 0214-2570

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (1996) Don Francisco de Gilabert i la idea del govern mixt: fortuna i prudència del constitucionalisme català dels segles XVI i XVII. Pedralbes: revista d'història moderna, 16 pp. 97-132. ISSN 0211-9587

1995

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (1995) Reason of state and constitutional thought in the crown of Aragon, 1580-1640. Historical journal, 38 (1). pp. 1-28. ISSN 0018-246X

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (1995) Christianity and civilization in sixteenth-century ethnological discourse. In: Bugge, Henriette and Rubiés, Joan-Pau, (eds.) Shifting cultures: interaction and discourse in the expansion of Europe. Lit Verlag, Saarbrücken, Germany, pp. 35-60. ISBN 9783825826147

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (1995) Introduction: interaction and discourse in the expansion of Europe. In: Bugge, Henriette and Rubiés, Joan-Pau, (eds.) Shifting cultures: interaction and discourse in the expansion of Europe. LIT Verlag, Münster, Germany, pp. 1-14. ISBN 3825826147

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (1995) Peter Linehan, "History and the historians of Medieval Spain" [book review]. Journal of Hispanic studies, 72 pp. 419-420. ISSN 1475-3839

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (1995) David Abulafia, "A Mediterranean emporium. The Catalan kingdom of Majorca" [book review]. Journal of ecclesiastical history, 46 (4). pp. 712-714. ISSN 0022-0469

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (1995) The concept of empire in the Catalan tradition, from Ramon Muntaner to Enric Prat de la Riba. Journal of Hispanic research, 4 pp. 229-262. ISSN 1468-2737

Bugge, H and Rubiés, Joan-Pau, (eds.) (1995) Shifting cultures: interaction and discourse in the expansion of Europe. LIT Verlag. ISBN 9783825826147

1994

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (1994) The oriental voices of Mendes Pinto, or the traveller as ethnologist in Portuguese India. Portuguese studies, 10 pp. 24-43. ISSN 0267-5315

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (1994) Peter Hulme and Neal Whitehead (eds.), "Wild majesty. Encounters with Caribs from Columbus to the present day" [book review]. Man, 29 (1). pp. 208-209. ISSN 0025-1496

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (1994) Henry Kamen, "The Phoenix and the flame. Catalonia and the counter reformation" [book review]. Journal of ecclesiastical history, 45 (3). pp. 514-517. ISSN 0022-0469

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (1994) Nero in Tacitus and Nero in Tacitism: the historian's craft. In: Elsner, Jaś and Masters, Jamie, (eds.) Reflections of Nero: culture, history, & representation. University of North Carolina Press, North Carolina, USA, pp. 29-47. ISBN 9780807821435

1993

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (1993) New worlds and Renaissance ethnology. History and anthropology, 6 (2). pp. 157-197. ISSN 0275-7206

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (1993) Georgio Spini, "Barocco e puitani. Studi sulla storia del seicento in Italia, Spagna e New England" [book review]. Journal of ecclesiastical history, 44 (3). pp. 729-730. ISSN 0022-0469

Aurell, Jaume and Rubiés, Joan-Pau (1993) Els mercaders catalans i la cultura de l'Edat Mitjana al Renaixement. Anuario de estudios medievales, 23 pp. 221-255. ISSN 0066-5061

1992

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (1992) Miriam Yardeni, "Anti-Jewish mentalities in early modern Europe" [book review]. Journal of ecclesiastical history, 43 (2). pp. 315-317. ISSN 0022-0469

1991

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (1991) Hugo Grotius's dissertation on the origin of the American peoples and the use of comparative methods. Journal of the history of ideas, 52 (2). pp. 221-244. ISSN 0022-5037

Rubiés, Joan-Pau (1991) Geoffrey Lloyd, "Demystifying Mentalities" [book review]. Cambridge anthropology, 15 (2). pp. 94-97. ISSN 0305-7674

1986

Rubiés, Joan-Pau and Salrach, Josep M. (1986) Entorn de la mentalitat i la ideologia del bloc de poder feudal a través de la historiografia medieval fins a les Quatre Grans Cròniques. Estudi general, 5-6 pp. 467-506. ISSN 0211-6030

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Dr Rubiés' main fields of interest lie in Early Modern European intellectual and cultural history, and the comparative study of early-modern empires. He has written extensively about travel writing and cultural encounters in the Early Modern period, and about the impact of Renaissance ethnography in the intellectual culture of early modern Europe. He has also specialized in the historiography and political thought of early modern Spain, with particular emphasis on Catalonia and the Crown of Aragon.

Joan-Pau Rubiés studied for his undergraduate degree at the University of Barcelona before moving to King's College, Cambridge in 1987, where he studied for a PhD. He was subsequently Research Fellow at Queens's College, Cambridge, and Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute. In 1994 he became Lecturer in History at the University of Reading, and in 1999 he joined the LSE as a Lecturer in International History.

Dr Rubiés is a member of the Council of the Hakluyt Society. He was the recipient of a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship in 2003-04. He was a Professeur invité at the École des Hautes Etudes et Sciences Sociales (Paris) in spring 2009.

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