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The early modern Spanish empire spanned three continents by the sixteenth century, including nearly a third of continental Europe. Its astonishing power and wealth provoked internal consternation and debate, including disagreement about the legal legitimacy of empire and the treatment of Indigenous subjects, social instability, Inquisitorial prosecutions, religious intensity, the rapid expansion of the transatlantic slave trade, and cultural flourishing in what later scholars would call “The Golden Age.” In this course, we discuss this complex period of time in Spanish history through the lens of gender, race, art and theater, political theory, and theology. This course is reading and writing intensive, where students should expect to engage in detailed discussions of primary material and to produce three essays (no exams).