Jose M. Escribano

• European University Institute

Book review

La historia de las relaciones entre civiles y militares ha privilegiado la violencia de los segundos sobre los primeros por lo que sabemos poco sobre la violencia ejercida por civiles contra soldados. Este artículo se centra en ella examinando un corpus de pleitos sobre las agresiones sufridas por soldados a manos de agentes de la autoridad local,...

Tras la conquista de Granada (1492) Antequera perdió su condición de ciudad fronteriza. Poco después, tras la conquista de Navarra (1512-1521), Pamplona adquirió una nueva condición como ciudad fronteriza de la nueva Monarquía Hispánica. Ambas transformaciones tuvieron lugar en el proceso de reconfiguración del reparto de las cargas económicas deri...

A crucial asset for cross-cultural communication during the early modern period, diplomatic gifts have been traditionally associated with courtly diplomacy and peaceful encounters. However, recent scholarship on this topic has emphasized how gifts can reveal bitter political rivalries and asymmetries of power. Building on this line of inquiry, this...

Reseña de: Esteban Estríngana, Alicia (ed.), Decidir la lealtad. Leales y desleales en contexto (siglos XVI-XVII), Aranjuez, Ediciones Doce Calles, 2017, 344 pp., ISBN: 978-84-9744-224-4.

The economic, political, financial and social crisis that broke out in 2008 has brought fateful consequences for the so-called welfare states. At the light of the social and ideological impact of this “crisis”, social scientists have inquired themselves about how rulers financed their states in past times, what kind of solutions they created, or ho...

This article analyses the influence of confessional divides in the construction of a Mediterranean frontier between the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghreb at the very beginning of the early modern period. Questioning the influence that religious difference had on the geopolitics of the early modern Mediterranean could seem superfluous since historia...