Blog—Stories from the Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies, Chicago.
Rhizome I: Entering the Iberian Rhizomatic Worlds;
Rhizome II: Entangled Spaces and Words;
Rhizome III: Entangled Experiences and Meanings.

During the 2023-2024 academic year, a group of Newberry fellows and scholars-in-residence from different fields and disciplines in early modern Iberian studies developed a common interest in a methodological approach called “the rhizome,” which embraces the vast array of complicated connections between ideas, objects, and actions in the past, just like the complex root systems of subterranean plants that originally carried that name. The so-called Newberry Rhizome Group explored this interest through informal conversations, research in the reading rooms, and at CRS programming throughout the year.

This collection of contributions was designed and edited by Fabien Montcher (The Saint Louis University Center for Iberian Historical Studies - CIHS) and Maria Vittoria Spissu (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow - University of Bologna/The Newberry Library) in the Spring and Summer of 2024.

Global Empires, Artistic Mobility, Connected Histories: research group/network MSCA IF-GF (Horizon 2020)

Fabien Montcher, Department of History, Saint Louis University, Entanglements in 'Place(s) Whose Names I Do Not Care to Remember'
Maria Vittoria Spissu, Department of the Arts, University of Bologna, Magnetic Iberian Interactions
Claire Gilbert, Department of History, Saint Louis University, Lexicography as Rhizome
Miguel Martínez, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago, Against Depth. On Shipwreck in the Spanish Pacific
Fabien Montcher, Department of History, Saint Louis University, Indigenous 'Libertins,' French 'Naturales,' and African 'Dévots,' in 'La Martinique' (c. 1640)
Maria Vittoria Spissu, Department of the Arts, University of Bologna, Dreams of Pacified Societies in Rhizomatic Worlds
Javier Villa-Flores, Department of Religion, Emory University, On the Rhizomatic Potential of Emblems
Andrea Reed-Leal, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago, Entangled Times in 'Codex Zempoala'
Diana Berruezo-Sánchez, Department of Spanish Studies, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Rhizomatic Conversion Environments

https://www.newberry.org/blog/rhizome-i-entering-the-iberian-rhizomatic-worlds
https://www.newberry.org/blog/rhizome-ii-entangled-spaces-and-words
https://www.newberry.org/blog/rhizome-iii-entangled-experiences-and-meanings