Xavier
Tubau Moreu
Redes sociales
Xavier Tubau holds a PhD in Spanish Philology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Before joining CSIC as a Tenured Scientist, he was an Associate Professor at Hamilton College. He has obtained funding for projects and research stays from the AGAUR, the American Philosophical Society, the CAM, the BBVA Foundation and the Huntington Library. He has been coordinator of the area of Philology, Literature and Art for the Spanish State Research Agency.
His main line of research has been the intellectual history of the Renaissance, with a focus on the history of political thought, especially in relation to the European and transatlantic policies of the Habsburgs. He has also researched the literary theory of the period and has prepared several critical editions of literary works and translations of Latin texts. He is currently developing a new line of research on the political history of post-Soviet Russia.
Recent publications
Rethinking Catholicism in Renaissance Spain. Ed. Xavier Tubau. New York-London: Routledge, 2022.
“Conflicting Loyalties: Church Freedom, Pastoral Care and Civil Duties in Diego de Álava y Esquivel.” In Rethinking Catholicism in Renaissance Spain, 57-87. London-New York: Routledge, 2022.
“Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation. Ed. Margaret King. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
“Between Ecclesiology and Diplomacy: Francisco de Vargas and the Council of Trent,” Renaissance and Reformation/ Renaissance et Réforme 42:3 (2019): 105-39.
“Humanism, the Bible and Erasmus’s Moral World Order.” In Morality and Responsibility of Rulers: Chinese and European Origins of a Rule of Law for World Order, edited by Anthony Carty and Janne Nijman, 114-31. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
“Hispanic Conciliarism and the Imperial Politics of Reform on the Eve of the Council of Trent,” Renaissance Quarterly 70:3 (2017): 897-934.