Papers: J. B. Owens

This is a page listing the unpublished papers of J. B. Owens of Idaho State University.

Unpublished Papers, Presentations, Reports, etc.

• "DynCoopNet: advancing research on cooperation-based commercial networks in the first global age, 1400-1800", for the general meeting of principal investigators and selected associate partners of the projects of European Science Foundation's EUROCORES (European Collaborative Research) Scheme program "The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading" (TECT), Barcelona, Spain, 22-23 November 2008.
• (with Emery A. Coppola, Jr., and Ference Szidarovszky), "Fuzzy Rule-Based Modelling of Degrees of Trust in Cooperation-Based Networks: Close Research Collaboration among Domain Experts (Historians) and Mathematical Modellers", for the TECT strategic workshop "Visualisation and Space-Time Representation of Dynamic, Non-linear, Spatial Data in DynCoopNet and Other TECT Projects", Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, 25-26 September 2008.
• Participant in the plenary panel session entitled "Temporal GIS, Space-Time Representation of Cooperation Networks: What is the next step?", for the TECT strategic workshop "Visualisation and Space-Time Representation of Dynamic, Non-linear, Spatial Data in DynCoopNet and Other TECT Projects", Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, 25-26 September 2008.
• "Dynamic geographic information systems (GIS) and the study of cooperation-based commercial networks in the first global age, 1400-1800". Instructional presentation for the TECT "summer school" (30 August - 6 September 2008) in Obernai, France, entitled "Tools of the trade in cooperation research", which will enhance the research preparation of about 30 advanced Ph.D. students in various disciplines from a number of countries.
• Annual Report for the DynCoopNet Project for the National Science Foundation, 11 July 2008 (25 pages).
• (with Amélia Polónia da Silva), "Scientific Report: TECT Networking Workshop (University of Porto, Portugal) 26-29 March 2008: 'Trust, Reputation, Defectors, and Sustaining Social Norms: Studying spatially complex cooperative relationships in ways that connect TECT projects'", for the European Science Foundation, June 2008 (23 pages).
• "What kind of system is it?" [longer version], for the conference "Andre Gunder Frank's Legacy of Critical Social Science", University of Pittsburgh, 11-13 April 2008.
• "What kind of system is it?", for the TECT joint-project workshop "Trust, Reputation, Defectors, and Sustaining Social Norms: Studying spatially complex cooperative relationships in ways that connect TECT projects", University of Porto, Portugal, 25 March 2008.
• Pre-circulated paper: "Compilation of data relating to 'group augmentation' among merchants of the First Global Age (1400-1800)" [data provided by Cátia Antunes, Hilario Casado Alonso, Ana Crespo Solana, Vicente Montojo, Rila Mukherjee, Antoni Picazo, and Amélia Polónia]. For the TECT joint-project workshop: "Trust, Reputation, Defectors, and Sustaining Social Norms: Studying spatially complex cooperative relationships in ways that connect TECT projects", for the session "Group Augmentation and the Thought of Hanna Kokko", University of Porto, Portugal, 26-29 March 2008.
• Pre-circulated paper: "Compilation of data relating to 'cheaters and defectors' in commercial relationships of the First Global Age (1400-1800)" [data provided by David Alonso García, Cátia Antunes, Ana Crespo Solana, Juan Gelabert González, Rila Mukherjee, Amélia Polónia, and Jessica Roitman]. For the TECT joint-project workshop: "Trust, Reputation, Defectors, and Sustaining Social Norms: Studying spatially complex cooperative relationships in ways that connect TECT projects", for the session "Cheaters and Defectors in Global Trading Networks", University of Porto, Portugal, 26-29 March 2008.
• "Knowledge Networking: Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)." Funding proposal for Idaho State University's Research Coordinating Council, to obtain funds for released time in the fall of 2008 to draft a funding proposal for the National Science Foundation's CDI program, 3 March 2008 [funded for a one-course release].
• "REPORT. TECT Dissemination Activity: Annual Meeting, American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., USA, 3-6 January 2008", for the European Science Foundation's EUROCORES (European Collaborative Research) Scheme program "The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading" (TECT), 26 January 2008 [17 pages].
• (with Derrick Sharp), Poster: "Cooperation and Trading in the First Global Age, 1400-1800: An Application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)", for the poster session (session 177, no. 19) of the 122nd annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C. (3-6 January 2008).
• "Cooperation and Trading in the First Global Age, 1400-1800: An Application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)" [paper to accompany the above poster], for the poster session (session 177, no. 19) of the 122nd annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C. (3-6 January 2008).
• "GIS as the integration engine of collaborative research: Merchant cooperation in the long-distance trading networks of the first global age, 1400-1800 CE." Paper presented at the European Science Foundation's EUROCORES Programme special workshop "A Place in Europe: Historical GIS and New Perspectives on European and World History", Universitat de Lleida; Residence for Researchers CSIC; Institut Europeu d'Estudis de la Mediterr&agreve;nia, Barcelona, Spain, 30 November - 2 December 2007 (held in conjunction with the Scientific Committee meeting of the EUROCORES research programme "Inventing Europe: Technology and the Making of Europe, 1850 to the Present").
• "Developing a GIS-based research project on a historical theme." Presentation to the Geotechnologies Seminar, Idaho State University, Pocatello, 1 November 2007.
• (with Philip Brown), "Using GIS for Teaching and Research in History," part of a "webinar" (interactive videoconference) for university teachers and library personnel organized by Diana Sinton, Director of Spatial Curriculum and Research, NITLE (National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education), 4 October 2007.
• "Was there really no coercion? Merchant cooperation in the long-distance trading networks of the first global age." TECT joint-project workshop, "Studying Challenges of the Global Commons:Connecting Researchers with Complementary Interests," The Beijer International Institute of Environmental Economics, The Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Stockholm, 6 September 2007.
• "The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading" (TECT). TECT launch conference, Budapest, Hungary, 4-7 July 2007. With Monica Wachowicz, Presented the multi-national, multi-disciplinary project "Dynamic Complexity of Cooperation-Based Self-Organizing Commercial Networks in the First Global Age," which is part of the TECT program.
• "Violence and Smuggling in Sixteenth-Century Eastern La Mancha." Paper presented to the annual meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Miami Beach, Florida, 19-21 April, 2007.
• "Idaho State University: World Leader in Geographically-Integrated History." Presentation to the Geotechnologies Seminar, Idaho State University, Pocatello, 30 November 2006.
• (with Ana Crespo Solana and Miguel Ángel Bernabé Poveda) "Herramientas de información geográfica en el estudio de las redes de comercio (siglos XVI a XVIII): Aplicaciones técnicas y problemas metodológicos en DynCoopNet." Paper presented, in Spanish by Owens, to the Segundas Jornadas gvSIG, Valencia, Spain, 23-24 November 2006.
• "The Complex, Self-Organizing Networks of the First Global Age (1400-1800): A high priority for world historical research." Peer-reviewed position paper accepted for to the World History Network and World History Association Research Agenda Symposium "Research in World History: Connections and Globalization," Boston, 10-12 November 2006.
• "Segmented Political Hierarchies and Self-Organizing Commercial Networks: The World of the Merchant-Smuggler in the Global Hispanic Monarchy." Paper presented at the conference "Middlemen and Networks: Economic, Social, and Cultural foundations of the Global Economy" (held in honor of David Ringrose), organized by the All-UC Economic History Group and the All-UC World History Group, University of California, San Diego, 3-5 November 2006.
• "Dynamic and Skilled Sixteenth-Century Castilian Entrepreneurs: An Attempt to Crush a Stereotype." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, 26-28 October 2006.
• "A GIS for Visualizing the Complex, Self-Organizing Commercial Networks of the First Global Age (1400-1800 C.E.)." Peer-reviewed position paper accepted for the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Workshop on "Computation and Visualization for the Understanding of Dynamics in Geographic Domains," Maritime Institute of Technology & Graduate Studies, Linthicum Heights, Maryland, 16-18 October 2006.
• "Toward a geographically-integrated history of the global Hispanic Monarchy of the first global age: Aggregating data, connecting places, and analyzing processes." One of the precirculated papers for the roundtable discussion that I organized, entitled "Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and History: Aggregating Data, Connecting Places, and Analyzing Processes," for the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Philadelphia, PA, 5 January 2006.
• "Smuggling through Spain: A neglected sixteenth-century commercial connection between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic." Paper, published online, for a meeting of the Asociación Española de Historia Económica in the region of Galicia (Santiago, A Coruña, Vigo), Spain, 15 September 2005.
• (with five other authors) "Spanish Christian Sacred Sites: from the library to interoperable web services (WMS - WFS). Creation of an Interoperable Information Layer on Spanish Roman Catholic Shrines." Paper presented by me to the session "Geodata Production" of the international conference GIS Planet 2005, Estoril, Portugal, 2 June 2005.
• "Fulfilling Fernand Braudel's Promise: Geographically-Integrated History in Research and Teaching." A major seminar presentation for the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, The Ohio State University, 10 May 2005.
• (with Kevin Marsh and Laura Woodworth-Ney) "GIS History, Historical GIS, Geographically-Integrated History: What is Idaho State University's new GIS-based M.A. in Historical Resources Management?" Intermountain GIS User's Conference, Northern Rockies Chapter of URISA, 21 April 2005.
• "Almansa, 1565: Den of a Mafia, Anti-Habsburg Resistance Fighters, Feuding Noble Bands, or What?" Paper presented to the annual meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, UCLA, 3 April 2004.
• (with Laura Woodworth-Ney), "Envisioning a GIS-Based Master's Degree Program in History." Paper to be presented in the session "Envisioning and Revisioning History with Technology" of the annual meeting of the American Association for History and Computing, Washington, D.C., 10 January 2004.
• "The Political-Economic Anatomy of a Criminal Organization Connecting America and Philip II's Western Mediterranean Domains." Paper to be presented as part of the session I organized, entitled "Smuggling, Clandestine Political Economies, and Public Authority in the First Global Age: Iberian Monarchies, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries," at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., 10 January 2004.
• "¿Por qué crea un atlas histórico digital de santuarios? SIG histórico y análisis espacial." Paper presented as part of a session that I organized, entitled "Santuarios españoles: Un atlas histórico digital, la temprana Edad Media hasta 1970," at the annual meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Madrid, Spain, 4 July 2003.
• "Routes: Assembling Data About the Connective Tissue of a Global Monarchy." Paper to be presented as part of the session "Connections, Interactions, Networks, and Routes: Grasping the Hispanic Monarchy in its Global Dimension" at the 32nd annual meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, 11-14 April 2002.
• Ibero-Mundo Regional Team: Briefing Paper (November, 2001). For the Regional Editors Meeting at the winter meeting of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI; ecai.org) and interim meeting of the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC; pnclink.org), Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 1-5 December 2001.
• The Ibero-Mundo Regional Atlas Team (November, 2001).
• (with Kevin Mickey) "Cartographic Design and ECAI." ISU Geotechnology Seminar, 12 November 2001.
• (with four other authors) "The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative: An Introduction." Paper presented at the XIX International Conference on the History of Cartography, Madrid, Spain, 1-6 July 2001.
• (with Kevin Mickey) "ECAI's Cartographic Guidelines." PowerPoint presentation. Summer meeting of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI), Archaeology Computing Laboratory, University of Sydney, Australia, 14 June 2001.
• "The 'Villena Cartel': Organized Crime and International Smuggling in Philip II's Spain." Paper presented to the 31st annual meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 20 April 2001.
• "The Villena Cartel: Organized Crime and International Smuggling in Philip II's Spain." Grant proposal (30 March 2001), ISU Research Coordinating Council (funded) and the University Research Committee (declined) for released time from teaching during the spring semester 2002.
• (with Miguel-Angel Bernabé) ECAI: Links that will be helpful for good mapping (March, 2001).
• (with Miguel-Angel Bernabé) "Spanish Golden Age Sacred Sites in the Region of Murcia." Paper presented to the winter meeting of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) and annual meeting of the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC), Hong Kong, 15 January 2001.
• "Hispanic Sacred Sites: Typology, Metadata Elements, and Cartographic Representation." Grant proposal (13 November 2001) submitted to the ISU Humanities/Social Sciences Research Committee for released time from teaching and travel to the summer meeting of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI), Sydney, Australia, late June 2001 (funded).
• "Sixteenth-Century Global Capitalism and Organized Crime." Grant proposal (6 November 2001) submitted to the ISU Faculty Research Committee for research in Spain, May-June 2001 (funded).
• "A 'Kingless Castile', Municipal Factional Conflict, and Local Treaty-Making." Paper presented at the 30th annual meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (New York University), 28 April 2000.
• "Spanish Golden Age Sacred Sites in the Region of Murcia: An Electronic Cultural Atlas." Grant proposal (31 March 2000), ISU Research Coordinating Council (funded; declined) and ISU University Research Committee (funded for released time from teaching during the fall 2000 semester).
• "Real Time ('Live') Interaction." Presentation as part of a panel session, "The Digital Classroom: Historians and the Internet," for the Idaho State History Conference, Boise State University, 18 March 2000.
• "The 'Villena Cartel': Organized Crime and International Smuggling in Philip II's Spain." Grant proposal (September 1999), National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend program, May-July 2000 (funded). A similar proposal submitted in November 1999 to the ISU Faculty Research Committee for travel funds (funded).
• "Connecting Asia to World History: Joseph R. Levenson, Andre Gunder Frank, and GIS." Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, 17-18 September 1999.
• "GIS and Research on Regional Interactions in World History." Annual meeting of the World History Association, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 24-27 June 1999, as part of a session evaluating M. Lewis and K. Wigen, The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography.
• "Integrating Iberian Histories into the On-line Cultural Environment." Research report for session "Cy/iberian Frontiers: Digital Initiatives in Peninsular History." 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, University of California, San Diego (15-18 April 1999).
• "Nuevos contenidos y perspectivas en Historia: La sociología del poder." Presented as part of the Ministerio de Educación y Cultura's "Actualización Científica" teacher development program (Murcia, Spain; 25 March 1999).
• "El sistema universitario en Estados Unidos." Universidad de Murcia, Facultad de Educación, 11 March 1999.
• "Orientaciones actuales de la investigación histórica: Historia moderna" (10 March 1999). IX Jornadas de Teoría y Metodología de la Historia: Revisión y Nuevos Paradigmas: Simbología, Conflicto y Género en el Debate Historiográfico Actual, Universidad de Murcia (9-11 March 1999).
• "'De mi poderío real absoluto': Monarcas absolutos y la Respública castellana, siglos XV-XVII." Seminar presentations at the Instituto Universitario de Historia Simancas (Universidad de Valladolid; 3 March 1999) and the Departamento de Historia Moderna, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (22 March 1999); lecture hosted by the Departamento de Historia Moderna, Contemporánea y de América, Universidad de Murcia (24 March 1999).
• "Visual display of complex interactions shaping the development of Murcia's Golden Age oligarchy." Grant proposal submitted to the Humanities/Social Sciences Research Committee of Idaho State University (February 1999) and funded for released time for research during the academic year 1999-2000.
• "Making Connections: The ReORIENTation of World History." Panel session for the 113th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C. (9 January 1999) to evaluate ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age by Andre Gunder Frank. Session organizer, chair, and panelist with Martin W. Lewis, John Richards, and David Ringrose. The author was present to respond.
• "Where in the World's History is Murcia?: A GIS Analysis." Grant proposal submitted to the Faculty Research Committee of Idaho State University (16 November 1998) and funded for research in Spain (February & March 1999).
• "Virtues and Vices of Computer-Mediated Teaching and Learning." Paper circulated in preparation for the Technology Forum at the annual meeting of the World History Association, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins (20 June 1998).
• "Non-bovine MOOs: Topothesia, Renaissance Dialogue, and the Teaching of World History." Presented at the annual meeting of the World History Association, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins (19 June 1998), as part of the panel "Teaching World History on a Global Scale: Computer-Mediated Distance Learning."
• "Andre Gunder Frank's ReORIENT from the Perspective of Recent Research on the 'Spanish' Empire." Presented at the annual meeting of the World History Association, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins (19 June 1998), as part of the panel "ReORIENTing the Basis of World History Teaching."
• "Juan Maldonado (c.a. 1485 - c.a. 1554) and Castilian 'Civic' Humanism." Presented at the annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, Big Sky, Montana (5 June 1998).
• "Ways of Teaching and Learning in Cyberspace." Plenary Address for the English Graduate Students Association Regional Conference, "Pedagogies on the Edge," Idaho State University, Pocatello (1 May 1998).
• "Just Out of Reach: Grasping Sixteenth-Century Castilian Municipal Government in the Context of Absolute Monarchy." Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, St. Louis (25 April 1998).
• "Andre Gunder Frank and the ReORIENTation of World History." Presented to the Idaho History Conference, College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls (14 March 1998).
• "Castilian Patriciates and the Letrado Monarchy." Grant from Idaho State University for fully-funded research leave during the spring semester 1999. To complete research for a book on the governing oligarchy of a major municipality (Murcia) within the context of Castilian absolute monarchy. Proposal submitted fall 1997.
• "DOING IT! Computer-Mediated Undergraduate Instruction Using the Internet." Presented as part of ISU's Doctor of Arts lecture series (24 October 1997).
• "Castilian Monarchical Authority and Urban Patrician Power." Presented at the 111th annual meeting of the American Historical Association, as part of the session "The 'State' and Political Reality: Castile in the Reign of Charles V," New York City (4 January 1997).
• "Pulling the State Back Out of Spanish History." Written as a funding proposal (11 November 1996). Spring 1997 release time funded by the ISU Office of Research.
• "Connecting the Global to the Local: Reflections on World-Systems, Cross-Cultural Interaction, and Globalizing Regional Histories." Presented to the Rocky Mountain World History Association, University of Utah, Salt Lake City (2 November 1996).
• "Access, Interaction, Collaboration: The Computer-Mediated Revolution in Teaching and Learning." Presented at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin (4 October 1996).
• "Juan de Mariana's De rege et regis institutione: A Jesuit and Toledano Reading." Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Tucson, Arizona (26 April 1996).
• "Terrorism and the State: Memorial for a Murdered Historian, Francisco Tomás y Valiente." Presented as part of the Department of History lecture series "State and Society," Idaho State University, Pocatello (5 April 1996).
• "Council and Ruler: Conciliar Thought and the Comunidades Rebellion in Early Sixteenth-Century Castile." Presented at the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Annual Conference, Utah State University, Logan (12 May 1995).
• "National Standards for World History." A five-minute introductory statement about the world history standards presented as part of the National Standards for History Forum, Idaho State University, Pocatello (4 April 1995).
• "History On-line: Teaching on the Internet." Department of History Colloquium "Cyberhistory: the Role of Communication in the Craft of History," Idaho State University, Pocatello (8 March 1995).
• "Corporate Seigniorialism in an Age of 'Refeudalization': Murcia's Patricians in the Seventeenth Century." 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, San Juan, Puerto Rico (April 1992).
• "Widows in Golden Age Murcia (1523-1648): Gender and Lifestyle in an Early Modern Spanish City." Grant proposal for the ISU Faculty Senate, the ISU Faculty Research Committee, and the Dirección General de Relaciones Culturales y Científicas of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1991).
• "Comment: Spanish Culture and Spirituality." Annual meeting of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, Missouri (October 1990).
• "Comment: Rethinking the Rise of Spain." 21st Annual Meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana (April 1990).
• "Graphic Arts, Workers' Organizations, and the Transition to Democracy in Spain, 1975-1979." Grant proposal for the ISU Faculty Research Committee (1989).
• "Kinship and Lineage in Habsburg Castile." Annual meeting of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, Missouri (October 1988).
• "Pious Bequests and Special Masses for the Dead in Golden Age Murcia." Annual meeting of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe (October 1987).
• "The Will of the Murcian Widow." 18th Annual Meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, University of Texas-Austin (April 1987).
• "Notarial Archives, Nominal Record Linkage, and the Validation of Samples." 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (April 1986).
• "El testamento como fuente histórica." For the "II Jornadas de Metodología de la Historia," Universidad de Murcia (April 1984).
• "Los murcianos ante la muerte: La religiosidad como consumo, 1528-1648." For the conference series "Familia y élite de poder en el Reino de Murcia, 1470-1830," Universidad de Murcia (Jan. 1984).
• "The Consumption and Investment Strategies of a Spanish Regional Elite in the Golden Age." Grant proposal for the ISU Faculty Senate, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, and the Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia (1983/1984).
• "The Problems of Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain: Comments on three papers." 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, University of California, Berkeley (April 1982).
• "Tax Resistance and Absolute Monarchy in Spain: The Murcian Tax Strike of 1576-1579." Idaho Historical Conference, College of Idaho, Caldwell (March 1982).
• "The Interrelationship of Municipal Politics, Urban Violence and the Inquisition in the Reign of Philip II." 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, University of Toronto (April 1981).
• "A Prosopographical Study of a Spanish Regional Governing Elite." Grant proposal for the ISU Faculty Research Committee (1981).
• "Strange Lunacy: Some Renaissance Moralists' Views of Gambling." Northern Great Plains History Conference, Bismarck, ND (Oct. 1977).
• "Power and its Exercise in Renaissance Castile: Royal Absolutism and Local Government in Murcia." Grant proposal for the U.S.-Spanish Joint Committee for Educational and Cultural Affairs (1977).
• "'The Prince is the Fountain of Justice': An Anthropological Look at the Norms and Practice of Renaissance Politics." Idaho Historical Conference, College of Idaho, Caldwell (March 1977).
• "A Functionalist Analysis of Renaissance Theories of Royal Power" [the political thought of the Castilian jurist Dr. Pedro Núñez de Avendaño]. Grant proposal for the ISU Faculty Research Committee (1977).
• "Castilian Imperial Expansion and Metropolitan Judicial Administration in the Age of Charles V." American Society for Legal History annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA (Oct. 1976).
• "The 'Moral Order' of an Urban-Agricultural Society: Renaissance Castile." Grant proposal for the ISU Faculty Research Committee (1975).
• "'Feudal' Monarch and 'Just' Monarch: An Interpretation of Fifteenth-Century Castilian Politics." 5th Annual Meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, University of California-San Diego (March 1974).
• "Renaissance Printing in Lyons (1503-1559): A Study in the Transmission of Culture." Unpublished M.A. thesis. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1968 (149 pp.).

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