Talk:Henry Kamen

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kamen ought to be capitalized as Kamen.-- ProudPapa5 (talk) 21:53, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

No references whatsoever? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.61.36.179 (talk) 13:14, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Selected reviews
''Is this section appropriate to an encyclopedia? Move to talk.'' RJFJR (talk) 14:46, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

and in The Guardian, "brilliant ... lucid, scholarly and perceptive ... a revelation":
 * On Philip of Spain, by M.N. Carlos Eire in Renaissance Quarterly, vol.52, 1999, "Kamen's Philip is a stunning achievement, not only because of its revisionist outlook and its use of sources, but also because of its style and structure. This is an exemplary piece of scholarship that reads very much like a good novel".
 * On Empire, in The Daily Telegraph, "A boldly conceived project that sustains its case with a pugnacious elan that carries the reader through to the final page":

and in The Weekly Standard, Washington DC, "Henry Kamen is the finest historian of Spain presently writing in any language":
 * On The Disinherited, in The Guardian, "Wonderfully accomplished, beautifully told":


 * On Imagining Spain, Eric Ormsby in The New York Sun, "Drawing on archival sources, unpublished manuscripts, and a vast body of scholarship in several languages, he takes a fresh look at Spanish notions of nationhood, monarchy, and empire. . . . Only someone who loves Spain deeply could have written this book.":


 * On The Escorial: Art and Power in the Renaissance, Prof Patrick Williams, in Literary Review (London), June 2010: "Lively and contentious, informed by a profound understanding of the period, and, as always, elegantly written."

Indictment for child porn
The following well-documented sentence, put in by me, was deleted by @Symmachus1 as “libelous”. According to U.S. law an indictment is by definition not libelous. Of course it’s not a conviction, but almost all of these cases (98% or so) end in a guilty plea as part of a plea bargain. deisenbe (talk) 14:49, 23 December 2017 (UTC)


 * A notice of an indictment, published by the Justice Department, is not libelous. Fishlandia (talk) 20:47, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Child porn charge
In February of 2017, Kamen was indicted by a federal (U.S.) grand jury for possession of child pornography in 2014, when he was living in Athens, Georgia.