EBRO Review Archives

Les prisons du roman XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle: Lectures plurielles et intertextuelles de "Guzman d'Alfarache" à "Jacques le fataliste"

Some books seem designed to defy the task of the reviewer.

Bernardo Bellotto and the Capitals of Europe

Traditionally speaking (and thanks to such well-known scholars as Michael Levey and Francis Haskell), names and phenomena associated with Venetian art, such as vedutismo, have come quickly to mind in any summation of the major developments of eighteenth-century painting outside France and Britain.

Droit et littérature sous l'Ancien Régime. Le Jeu de la valeur et de la loi

Christian Biet, a prolific scholar of seventeenth-century French literature and theater who teaches at the Nanterre campus of the University of Paris, has taken an interest in recent years in the relationship between literature and the law in Old Regime France.

Merchants, Mamluks, and Murder: The Political Economy of Trade in Eighteenth-Century Basra

As historians have attempted to discuss the history of Basra they have been torn between two worlds: the whirlwind of trade in the Middle East and the booming economy of the Indian Ocean.  Although authors such as Geoffrey C.

Los jesuitas españoles expulsos: Su imagen y su contribución al saber sobre el mundo hispánico en la Europa del siglo XVIII

On February 27, 1767, Charles III issued a royal decree that represented a cultural sea change in Spain and its extended empire: “…moved by very grave causes relative to the obligation under which I find myself placed of maintaining my people in subordination, tranquility, and justice, and other urgent, just, and necessary reasons, which I reserve in my royal