Epilogue. Carlos II: A Reign under Revision

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1 This article was translated from Spanish by Ruth MacKay.

2 See, among others, Davide Maffi, En defensa del Imperio: Los ejércitos de Felipe IV y la Guerra por la hegemonía europea (1635–1659) (Madrid, 2004); and, by the same author, La Cittadella in armi: Esercito, società e finanza nella Lombardia di Carlos II, 1660–1700 (Milan, 2010).

3 The first edition, published in Naples by Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, appeared in 1972. Ten years later it was published in two volumes by Sansoni, in Florence. On this work see Luis Ribot, ‘La última fase del virreinato hispano: Napoli spagnola dopo Masaniello de Giuseppe Galasso’, in A. Musi and L. Mascilli Migliorini (eds), L’Europa e l’altra Europa: I libri di Giuseppe Galasso (Naples, 2011), pp. 67-83.

4 Henry Kamen, Spain in the Later Seventeenth Century, 1665–1700 (London, 1980). The Spanish edition was La España de Carlos II (Barcelona, 1981); Antonio Domínguez Ortiz (ed.), Testamento de Felipe IV: Edición facsímil (Madrid, 1982).

5 Pere Molas Ribalta (ed.), La transición del siglo XVII al XVIII: Entre la decadencia y la reconstrucción (Madrid, 1993).

6 Luis Ribot (ed.), Carlos II: el rey y su entorno cortesano (Madrid, 2009).

7 P. Sanz Camañes (ed.), Tiempo de Cambios: Guerra, diplomacia y política internacional de la Monarquía Hispánica (1648–1700) (Madrid, 2012).

8 A. Rodríguez, G. de Ceballos and A. Rodríguez Rebollo (eds), Carlos II y el arte de su tiempo (Madrid, 2013).

9 Bernardo José García García and Antonio Álvarez-Ossorio Alvariño (eds), Vísperas de sucesión: Europa y la Monarquía de Carlos II (Madrid, 2015).

10 M. C. Saavedra (ed.), La decadencia de la monarquía hispánica en el siglo XVII: Viejas imágenes y nuevas aportaciones (Madrid, 2016).

11 The editors will be Antonio Álvarez-Ossorio Alvariño, Álvaro Pascual Chenel, Cristina Bravo Lozano and Roberto Quirós Rosado.

12 Gabriel Maura, Carlos II y su corte: Ensayo de reconstrucción biográfica (Madrid, 2018), 2 vols.

13 That development inspired the publication of A. Bègue, Carlos II (1665–1700): La defensa de la Monarquía Hispánica en el ocaso de una dinastía (Paris, 2017); and M. Mestre Zaragoza (ed.), L’Espagne de Charles II (1665–1700): une modernité paradoxale (Paris, in press, with a provisional title).

14 In 2012 during the conference that became the basis for Vísperas de Sucesión, cited above.

15 The seminar referred to above on Mariana was the seventh in a series of comparative historical meetings organized by the network.

16 See Luis Ribot, Orígenes políticos del testamento de Carlos II: La gestación del cambio dinástico en España (Madrid, 2010); Ribot and J. M. Iñurritegui (eds), Europa y los tratados de reparto de la Monarquía de España, 1668–1700 (Madrid, 2016).

17 See especially his The Resilience of the Spanish Monarchy, 1665–1700 (Oxford, 2006). The Spanish edition was published in 2013 by Actas.

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Luis Ribot

Luis Ribot, catedrático of Modern History since 1987, was a professor at the University of Valladolid from 1973 to 2005, when he moved to the Universidad de Educación a Distancia (UNED), in Madrid. His research has focused on the Habsburg period, Spanish Italy, revolts, war, the reign of Carlos II and the succession crisis of 1700. He is the author of La edad moderna (siglos XV–XVIII), first published in 2016 and now in its third edition. In 2003 he received the National History Prize for his book, La monarquía de España y la guerra de Mesina (1674–1678), and in 2010 became a member of the Royal Academy of History.