Hispania no. 229

The latest edition of Hispania: revista española de historia is out, Vol. 68 no. 229. There are 4 articles of interest to us. Edward Cooper, “El acebo y el Rey sin fe,” Félix A. Ferrer García, “Clérigos y feligreses en la Basílica de San Vicente de Ávila: actividades litúrgicas, lúdicas y funerarias (siglos XVI-XVII),” Marina Torres Arce, “Inquisición, jurisdiccionalismo y reformismo borbónico. El Tribunal de Sicilia en el siglo XVIII,” and Rafael Torres Sánchez, “‘Las prioridades en un monarca ilustrado’ o las limitaciones del Estado fiscal-militar de Carlos III.” (Links to summaries require free registration; links to full text require subscription.)

I’ll do the reviews tomorrow.

 Update: Okay, I’ll do the reviews soon, within a few days.

SCSC 2008: Bomba on Political Culture

One last post on a great paper I heard in St. Louis. Nicholas Bomba, a Princeton PhD candidate, gave a paper entitled, “The Three Faces of Gonzalo Pizarro,” in which he explored contemporary comments on Pizarro’s rule in Peru and finds that they sort out into three “archetypes,” as he put it, to explain bad rulership. The point was that these were part of the rhetorical and conceptional tools that Spaniards possessed to analyze rulership, at home and away. I’m not doing the paper justice here – it was a sophisticated and nuanced analysis. I had heard Bomba give another paper at the SCSC in Minneapolis last year, and this paper just confirmed that his dissertation and book will be very sharp.

After the jump, Bomba’s own description of his dissertation on the crisis of counsel in the Hispanic world: