Ruth MackayRuth MacKay has worked as a university lecturer, newspaper editor, writer, translator, and interpreter, having been awarded fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Fulbright Commision, amongst others. She is the author of The Limits of Royal Authority: Resistance and Obedience in Seventeenth-Century Castile (Cambridge, 1999), 'Lazy Improvident People': Myth and Reality in the Writing of Spanish History (2006) and The Baker Who Pretended to be King of Portugal (2012). Read More Read Less