Short Publications: J. B. Owens

This is a page listing the shorter published works of J. B. Owens of Idaho State University.

Short Publications

• Review of Óscar Mazín, Gestores de la Real Justicia: Procuradores y agentes de las catedrales hispanas nuevas en la corte de Madrid. In Hispanic American Historical Review (forthcoming).
• Review of Sebastián Molina Puche, Poder y familia: Las élites locales del corregimiento Chinchilla-Villena en el siglo del barroco. In Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Bulletin (forthcoming).
• Review of Bartolomé Yun, Marte Contra Minerva: El precio del Imperio espa¤ol, c. 1450-1600. In Journal of Modern History (in press).
• Review of Jesús María Usunáriz, España y sus tratados internacionales: 1516-1700. In Sixteenth Century Journal (in press).
• Review of Linda L. Hill, Georeferencing: The Geographic Associations of Information. In Journal of the Association for History and Computing (in press).
• "Historical Studies, GIS for." In Karen Kemp (ed.), Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage (2008): 220-21.
• Review of Jean Dangler, Making Difference in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia. In American Historical Review, 112, 4 (October 2007): 1264-5.
• Review of J. H. Elliott, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830. In Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Bulletin, 32, 1 & 2 (2007): 56-57.
• "Violence and Smuggling in Sixteenth-Century Eastern La Mancha [paper abstract]." Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Bulletin, 32, 1 & 2 (2007): 70-71.
• "Vicente V zquez Hern ndez." In Historia de Sax (1 April 2006).
• Review of Susana Truchuelo García, Gipuzkoa y el poder real en la Alta Edad Moderna. In American Historical Review, 110, 5 (December 2005): 1609-1610.
• (with Kevin Marsh and Laura Woodworth-Ney), "Idaho State University Creates Innovative Program in History and GIS". ArcNews, 27, 3 (Fall 2005): 45 & online.
• Review of Ramón Carrilero Martínez, La emperatriz Isabel de Portugal, Señora de Albacete y de Alcaraz (1526-1539): Estudio histórico-documental. In Sixteenth Century Journal, 35, 3 (2004): 823-824.
• Review of Linda Martz, A Network of Converso Families in Early Modern Toledo: Assimilating a Minority. In Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Bulletin, 28, 3 (winter 2003-2004): 16-17.
• Review of Jesús Izquierdo Martín, El rostro de la comunidad: La identidad del campesino en la Castilla del Antiguo Régimen. In American Historical Review, 109, 1 (February 2004): 258-259.
• "Why create a digital historical atlas of shrines?: Historical GIS and spatial analysis" [paper abstract]. Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Bulletin 28,2 (Spring/Fall 2003): 52-53.
• Review of Anne Kelly Knowles, ed., Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History. In Journal of the American Association for History and Computing, VI,2 (September 2003): [http://mcel.pacificu.edu/jahc/2003/issue2/reviews/owens.php].
• Review of Antonio Irigoyen López and José Jesús García Hourcade, Visitas "ad limina" de la diócesis de Cartagena, 1589-1901. In Sixteenth Century Journal, 34, 4 (Winter 2003): 1260-1261.
• "Lawyers" and "Letrados." In E. Michael Gerli (ed.), Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge (December 2002).
• Review of Lu Ann Homza, Religious Authority in the Spanish Renaissance. In Hispanic American Historical Review, 82,4 (November 2002): 784-785.
• Review of Ida Altman, Transatlantic Ties in the Spanish Empire: Brihuega, Spain, and Puebla, Mexico, 1560-1620. In Comparative Studies in Society and History, 44,2 (April 2002): 409-410.
• Review of Alberto Marcos Martín, España en los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII: Economía y sociedad. In Sixteenth Century Journal 32, 3 (Fall 2001): 832-833.
• "The Continuing Discussion: What must I do to teach world history effectively?" [Review of The New World History: A Teacher's Companion, ed. Ross E. Dunn]. H-NET BOOK REVIEW; Published by H-World@h-net.msu.edu (September, 2001).
• "The 'Villena Cartel': Organized Crime and International Smuggling in Philip II's Spain" [abstract]. Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Bulletin 26, 1 (2001): 24.
• "The Ibero-Mundo Atlas Team." ECAI Echo: Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) Newsletter www.ciolek.com/ecai-echo.html 2, 5 (December 2000).
• "A 'Kingless Castile', Municipal Factional Conflict, and Local Treaty-Making" [abstract]. Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Bulletin 25, 1 (2000): 25-26.
• Review of Ruth MacKay, The Limits of Royal Authority: Resistance and Obedience in Seventeenth-Century Castile. In Sixteenth Century Journal 31, 1 (2000): 196-197.
• Review of Joseph Pérez, L'Espagne de Philippe II. In Sixteenth Century Journal 31, 1 (2000): 222-224.
• Review of Geoffrey Parker, The Grand Strategy of Philip II. In The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History 57,1 (July 2000): 134-136.
• Review of Miguel Artola, La Monarquía de España. In Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Bulletin 24, 3 (winter, 1999-2000): 22-23.
• "Integrating Iberian Histories into the On-line Cultural Environment" [paper abstract]. Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Bulletin 24,2 (1999): 15.
• Review of Carlos Alvarez Nogal, El crédito de la monarquía hispánica en el reinado de Felipe IV. In Journal of Interdisciplinary History 30,2 (1999): 326-327.
• "Comuneros, Revolt of the." In Paul F. Grendler (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Renaissance ( 6 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, in association with the Renaissance Society of America, 1999): II, 60-62.
• "Maldonado, Juan." In Ibid., IV, 27.
• "Mariana, Juan de." In Ibid., IV, 39-40.
• Review of Susan Plann, A Silent Minority: Deaf Education in Spain, 1550-1835. In Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Bulletin 24,1 (1999): 25-26.
• "Just Out of Reach: Grasping Sixteenth-Century Castilian Municipal Government in the Context of Absolute Monarchy." Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Bulletin 23,2 (1998).
• Review of J. I. Fortea Pérez (ed.), El mundo urbano en la Corona de Castilla (s. XVI-XVIII). In Journal of Interdisciplinary History 29,1 (summer 1998): 110-112.
• Review of Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall, Rise and Demise: Comparing World-Systems. In Sixteenth Century Journal 28,4 (1997): 1486-1487.
• Review of David E. Vassberg, The Village and the Outside World in Golden Age Castile: Mobility and Migration in Everyday Rural Life. In Journal of Interdisciplinary History 28, 2 (1997): 287-289.
• Review of David R. Ringrose, Spain, Europe, and the "Spanish Miracle," 1700-1900. In American Historical Review 102,3 (June 1997): 833-834.
• Review of José Javier Ruiz Ibáñez, Las dos caras de Jano: Monarquía, ciudad e individuo. In Sixteenth Century Journal 28,1 (Spring 1997): 350-352.
• "SSPHS on the Internet." Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Bulletin 21,2 (1996): 5-6.
• Juan de Mariana's De rege et regis institutione (1599): A Jesuit and Toledano Reading" (abstract). Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Bulletin 21,2 (1996): 37.
• Review of Stephen K. Sanderson (ed.), Civilizations and World Systems: Studying World-Historical Change. In Sociological Inquiry 66,4 (Fall 1996): 513-517.
• Review of James M. Boyden, The Courtier and the King: Ruy Gómez de Silva, Philip II, and the Court of Spain. In American Historical Review 101,3 (June 1996): 860-861.
• Review of I.A.A. Thompson and Bartolomé Yun Casalilla (eds.), The Castilian Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: New Perspectives on the Economic and Social History of Seventeenth-Century Spain. In Sixteenth Century Journal 27,1 (1996): 176-179.
• Review of Carlos M. N. Eire, From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain. In Sixteenth Century Journal 27,1 (1996): 187-188.
• (with James L. Amelang) "Murder of a Historian" [memorial article for Francisco Tomás y Valiente]. Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Bulletin 21,1 (1996): 5-9.
• "Beyond E-Mail: The World-Wide Web for Portuguese and Spanish Historians." Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Bulletin 21,1 (1996): 18-21.
• "Expanding the Student Base for Portuguese and Spanish History: Teaching on the Internet." Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Bulletin 20,3 (Fall 1995): 14-16.
• "Teaching on the Internet." ISU Computing News 1,4 (March 1995): 1-2.
• Review of Rebecca Catz, Christopher Columbus and the Portuguese, 1476-1498. In The Americas 51,3 (February 1995): 432-433.
• Review of B. Ares, J. Bustamante, F. Castilla, and F. del Pino, Humanismo y visión del otro en la España moderna. In Hispanic American Historical Review 75,1 (February 1995): 100-101.
• Review of José Rabasa, Inventing America: Spanish Historiography and the Formation of Eurocentrism. In The Americas 51,2 (October 1994): 251-253.
• Review of Peggy K. Liss, Isabel the Queen: Life and Times. In The Americas 51,2 (October 1994): 247-248.
• Review of Meredith D. Dodge and Rick Hendricks, eds. and trans., Two Hearts, One Soul: The Correspondence of the Condesa de Galve, 1688-96. In Hispanic American Historical Review 74,3 (August 1994): 515-516.
• "Historic Downtown Pocatello." In Betty Hale (ed.), The History of Bannock County [Idaho], Logan, Utah: Herff Jones, 1993, pp. 165-168.
• Review of Ana Navarro (ed.), Antología poética de escritoras de los siglos XVI y XVII, and José L. Sánchez Lora, Mujeres, conventos y formas de la religiosidad barroca. In Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme 16,2 (1992): 74-77.
• Review of R. Po-chia Hsia, Social Discipline in the Reformation: Central Europe, 1550-1750. In Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 13 (1992): 133-134.
• Review of José Miguel Martínez Carrión, La ganadería en la economía murciana contemporánea, 1860-1936. In Agricultural History 66,3 (1992): 100-101.
• "Corporate Seigniorialism in an Age of 'Refeudalization': Murcia's Patricians in the Seventeenth Century" (abstract). Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Bulletin 17,2 (1992): 21-22.
• Review of José Manuel Nieto Soria, Fundamentos ideológicos del poder real en Castilla (siglos xiii-xvi). In American Historical Review 97,2 (April 1992): 538-539.
• "Some arguments for new library worth more thorough consideration: Guest Opinion" [a defense of historic preservation]. Idaho State Journal Sunday, 2 February 1992.
• Review of María Jesús Fuente Pérez, La ciudad de Palencia en el siglo XV: Aportación al estudio de las ciudades castellanas en la Baja Edad Media, and Rafael Sánchez Saus, Caballería y linaje en la Sevilla medieval: Estudio genealógico y social. In Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 12 (1991): 145-147.
• Review of Ronald E. Surtz, The Guitar of God: Gender, Power, and Authority in the Visionary World of Mother Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534). In Sixteenth Century Journal 22,4 (1991): 915-916.
• Review of Helen Nader, Liberty in Absolutist Spain: The Habsburg Sale of Towns, 1516-1700. In Sixteenth Century Journal 22,4 (1991): 871-872.
• Review of Richard L. Kagan, Lucrecia's Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain. In Sixteenth Century Journal 22,4 (1991): 801-802.
• Review of Mary Elizabeth Perry, Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville. In Sixteenth Century Journal 22,4 (1991): 796-797.
• "Spanish Poster Politics in the Transition to Democracy" (abstract). Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Bulletin 16,2 (Spring 1991): 15-16.
• Review of Robert I. Burns (ed.), Emperor of Culture: Alfonso X the Learned of Castile and His Thirteenth-Century Renaissance. In History of Education Quarterly, 31,2 (1991): 282-283.
• Review of Jean-Pierre Dedieu, L'Administration de la foi: L'Inquisition de Tolède (XVIe - XVIIIe siècle). In Sixteenth Century Journal 22,1 (1991): 141-142.
• Review of Denis Menjot, Fiscalidad y sociedad: Los murcianos y el impuesto en la Baja Edad Media. In American Historical Review 96,1 (1991): 152-153.
• Review of Clive Griffin, The Crombergers of Seville: The History of a Printing and Merchant Dynasty. In Sixteenth Century Journal 21,2 (1990): 317-318.
• Review of Charles M. Radding, The Origins of Medieval Jurisprudence: Pavia and Bologna, 850-1150. In Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 10 (1989): 89-90.
• Review of Cristina Gutiérrez-Cortines Corral, Arquitectura, economía e iglesia en el siglo XVI (Murcia y su entorno), and Renacimiento y arquitectura religiosa en la antigua Diócesis de Cartagena (Reyno de Murcia, Gobernación de Orihuela y Sierra de Segura). In Sixteenth Century Journal 20,2 (1989): 321-323.
• Review of Marvin Lunenfeld, Keepers of the City: The Corregidores of Isabella I of Castile (1474-1504). In Hispanic American Historical Review 69,1 (1989): 172-173.
• Review of Ignacio Atienza Hernández, Aristocracia, poder y riqueza en la España moderna: La Casa de Osuna, siglos XV-XIX. In American Historical Review 94,2 (1989): 466-467.
• Review of Ralph H. Vigil, Alonso de Zorita: Royal Judge and Christian Humanist, 1512-1585. In Journal of American History 75,3 (Dec. 1988): 912-913.
• "Glenn Edward Tyler." Perspectives: AHA Newsletter 26,4 (April 1988): 16.
• Review of Alan Macfarlane, Marriage and Love in England: Modes of Reproduction, 1300-1840. In Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 8 (1987): 203-205.
• "Aho Article Described as Confused, Vague, Manipulative" [review of an article by sociologist James Aho on Idaho's Aryan Nations movement]. Idaho State Journal (16 October 1986): A-5.
• Review of David E. Vassberg, Land and Society in Golden Age Castile. In Hispanic American Historical Review 66 (1986): 358-359.
• "Consumption and Investment Strategies of a Spanish Regional Elite, 1500-1650." American Philosophical Society: Grantees' Reports, 1984 (Philadelphia, 1985), p. 202.
• Review of Jack Beeching, The Galleys at Lepanto. In Sixteenth Century Journal 16,1 (1985): 153.
• Review of John M. Headley, The Emperor and his Chancellor: A Study of the Imperial Chancellery under Gattinara and William S. Maltby, Alba: A Biography of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Third Duke of Alba, 1507-1582. In Sixteenth Century Journal 15,3 (1984): 381-383.
• Review of William A. Christian, Jr., Local Religion in Sixteenth-Century Spain and Apparitions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain. In Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme 20 (1984): 73-77.
• Review of Felipe Fernández-Armesto, The Canary Islands after the Conquest: The Making of a Colonial Society in the Early Sixteenth Century and Amy Bushnell, The King's Coffer: Proprietors of the Spanish Florida Treasury, 1565-1702. In Sixteenth Century Journal 14,4 (1983): 514-516.
• Review of Stephen Haliczer, The Comuneros of Castile: The Forging of a Revolution, 1475-1521. In Sixteenth Century Journal 13,4 (1982): 125-126, and 14,2 (1982): 246-247.
• Review of Richard L. Kagan, Lawsuits and Litigants in Castile, 1500-1700. In Sixteenth Century Journal 13,4 (1982): 120.
• "The Interrelationship of Urban Violence, Municipal Politics and the Inquisition in the Age of Philip II" (abstract). Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Bulletin 7 (1982): 16.
• Review of Mary Elizabeth Perry, Crime and Society in Early Modern Seville. In Sixteenth Century Journal 12,2 (1981): 123-124, and 12,3 (1981): 123.
• Review of Helen Nader, The Mendoza Family in the Spanish Renaissance, 1350-1550. In Sixteenth Century Journal 12,1 (1981): 118-119.
• Review of Francisco Chacón Jiménez, Murcia en la centuria de quinientos. In Sixteenth Century Journal, 12,1 (1981): 118-119.
• Review of Valentín Vázquez de Prada, Historia económica y social de España: vol. 3, Los siglos XVI y XVII. In American Historical Review 85 (1980): 1211-1212.
• Abstract of J. B. Owens, "The Conception of Absolute Royal Power in Sixteenth Century Castile." Published in Documentation Politique Internationale/ International Political Science Abstracts 28 (1978): 1486.
• Review of William Hamilton Bryson, A Dictionary of Sigla and Other Abbreviations in Law Books before 1607. In Sixteenth Century Journal 8,2 (1977): 108.
• Review of John H. Langbein, Prosecuting Crime in the Renaissance: England, Germany, France. In Sixteenth Century Journal 6,2 (1975): 124-125.
• Review of Richard L. Kagan, Students and Society in Early Modern Spain. In American Journal of Legal History 19 (1975): 334-336.
• "The Nature of Absolute Power as Perceived by Diego Hurtado de Mendoza and Pedro Núñez de Avendaño" (abstract). Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Bulletin 3 (May 1975): 64-66.

All contents copyright © 1995-2008.
J. B. Owens
All rights reserved.

Revised: 16 August 2008

URL:  http://www.isu.edu/~owenjack/publications/shortpub.html