Gender And Exemplarity In Medieval And Early Modern Spain

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004438446

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Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain by Anonim Pdf

Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain gathers a series of studies on the interplay between gender, sanctity and exemplarity in regard to literary production in the Iberian peninsula. The first section examines how women were con¬strued as saintly examples through narratives, mostly composed by male writers; the second focuses on the use made of exemplary life-accounts by women writers in order to fashion their own social identity and their role as authors. The volume includes studies on relevant models (Mary Magdalen, Virgin Mary, living saints), means of transmission, sponsorship and agency (reading circles, print, patronage), and female writers (Leonor López de Córdoba, Isabel de Villena, Teresa of Ávila) involved in creating textual exemplars for women. Contributors are: Pablo Acosta-García, Andrew M. Beresford, Jimena Gamba Corradine, Ryan D. Giles, María Morrás, Lesley K. Twomey, Roa Vidal Doval, and Christopher van Ginhoven Rey.

Author : Michelle Armstrong-Partida,Alexandra Guerson,Dana Wessell Lightfoot
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496219671

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Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia by Michelle Armstrong-Partida,Alexandra Guerson,Dana Wessell Lightfoot Pdf

Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia draws on recent research to underscore the various ways Iberian women influenced and contributed to their communities, engaging with a broader academic discussion of women's agency and cultural impact in the Iberian Peninsula. By focusing on women from across the socioeconomic and religious spectrum--elite, bourgeois, and peasant Christian women, Jewish, Muslim, converso, and Morisco women, and married, widowed, and single women--this volume highlights the diversity of women's experiences, examining women's social, economic, political, and religious ties to their families and communities in both urban and rural environments. Comprised of twelve essays from both established and new scholars, Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia showcases groundbreaking work on premodern women, revealing the complex intersections between gender and community while highlighting not only relationships of support and inclusion but also the tensions that worked to marginalize and exclude women.

Author : Anne J. Cruz,Rosilie Hernández
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409427148

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Women's Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World by Anne J. Cruz,Rosilie Hernández Pdf

This volume presents writings pertaining to women's rich and diverse participation--despite male cultural domination--in the realms of both reading and writing. Arrangement is in sections on the practices of women's literacy, the role of women in convents, and exemplary women and their works--Lope de Vega, Ana Caro, and Maria de Zayas, among others.

Author : Ronald E. Surtz
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512808179

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Writing Women in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain by Ronald E. Surtz Pdf

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : Nuria Silleras-Fernandez
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501773877

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The Politics of Emotion by Nuria Silleras-Fernandez Pdf

The Politics of Emotion explores the intersection of powerful emotional states—love, melancholy, grief, and madness—with gender and political power on the Iberian Peninsula from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. Using an array of sources—literary texts, medical treatises, and archival documents—Nuria Silleras-Fernandez focuses on three royal women: Isabel of Portugal (1428–1496), queen-consort of Castile; Isabel of Aragon (1470–1498), queen-consort of Portugal; and Juana of Castile (1479–1555), queen of Castile and its empire. Each of these women was perceived by their contemporaries as having gone "mad" as a result of excessive grief, and all three were related to Isabel the Catholic (1451–1504), queen of Castile and a woman lauded in her time as a paragon of reason. Through the lives and experiences of these royal women and the observations, judgments, and machinations of their families, entourages, and circles of writers, chronicles, courtiers, moralists, and physicians in their orbits, Silleras-Fernandez addresses critical questions about how royal women in Iberia were expected to behave, the affective standards to which they were held, and how perceptions about their emotional states influenced the way they were able to exercise power. More broadly, The Politics of Emotion details how the court cultures in medieval and early modern Castile and Portugal contributed to the development of new notions of emotional excess and mental illness.

Author : Marta V. Vicente,Luis R. Corteguera
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351871396

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Women, Texts and Authority in the Early Modern Spanish World by Marta V. Vicente,Luis R. Corteguera Pdf

This is the first essay collection to examine the relation between text and gender in Spain from a broad geographical, social and cultural perspective covering more than 300 years. The contributors examine women and the construction of gender thematically, dealing with the areas of politics, law, religion, sexuality, literature and economics, and in a variety of social categories, from Christians and Moriscas, queens and merchants, peasants and visionaries, heretics and madwomen. The essays cover different regions in the Spanish monarchy, including Andalusia, Aragon, Castile, Catalonia, Valencia and Spanish America, from the fifteenth century through to the eighteenth century. Women, Texts and Authority in Early Modern Spain focuses on two central themes: gender relations in the shaping of family and community life, and women's authority in spheres of power. The representation of women in a variety of texts such as poetry, court cases, or even account books illustrate the multifaceted world in which women lived, constantly choosing and negotiating their identities. The appeal of this collection is not limited to scholars of Spanish history and literature; it is deliberately designed to address the issue of how gender relations were constructed in the formation of modern society, and therefore will be of interest to scholars of women's and gender history generally. Because of the emphasis on how this construction occurs in texts, the collection will also be attractive to scholars interested in literary studies and/or print culture.

Author : Theresia Earenfight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:901610515

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Queenship and Political Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain by Theresia Earenfight Pdf

Author : Grace E. Coolidge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351931991

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Guardianship, Gender, and the Nobility in Early Modern Spain by Grace E. Coolidge Pdf

Contrary to early modern patriarchal assumptions, this study argues that rather trying to impose obedience or enclosure on women of their own rank and status, noblemen in early modern Spain depended on the active collaboration of noblewomen to maintain and expand their authority, wealth, and influence. While the image of virtuous, secluded, silent, and chaste women did bolster male authority in general and help to assure individual noblemen that their children were their own, the presence of active, vocal, and political women helped these same men move up the social ladder, guard their property and wealth, gain political influence, win legal battles, and protect their minor heirs. Drawing on a variety of documents-guardianships, wills, dowry and marriage contracts, lawsuits, genealogies, and a few letters-from the family archives of the nine noble families housed in the Osuna and Frías collections in Toledo, Guardianship, Gender and the Nobility in Early Modern Spain explores the lives and roles of female guardians. Grace Coolidge examines in detail the legal status of these women, their role within their families, and their responsibilities for the children and property in their care. To Spanish noblemen, Coolidge argues, the preservation of family, power, and lineage was more important than the prescriptive gender roles of their time, and faced with the emergency generated by the premature death of the male title holder, they consistently turned to the adult women in their families for help. Their need for support and for allies against their own mortality meant, in turn, that they expected and trained their female relatives to take an active part in the economic and political affairs of the family.

Author : Marianna Muravyeva,Raisa Maria Toivo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415537230

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Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Marianna Muravyeva,Raisa Maria Toivo Pdf

This book attempts to challenge the canonical gender concept while trying to specify what gender was in the medieval and early modern world. It tests, verifies, and challenges the methodology and use the concept(s) of gender specifically applicable to the period of great change and transition. The volume contains theoretical discussion supplemented by case studies of specific practices such as mysticism, witchcraft, crime, and sexual behavior.

Author : Shifra Armon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317100027

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Masculine Virtue in Early Modern Spain by Shifra Armon Pdf

Masculine Virtue in Early Modern Spain extricates the history of masculinity in early modern Spain from the narrative of Spain’s fall from imperial power after 1640. This book culls genres as diverse as emblem books, poetry, drama, courtesy treatises and prose fiction, to restore the inception of courtiership at the Spanish Hapsburg court to the history of masculinity. Refuting the current conception that Spain’s political decline precipitated a ’crisis of masculinity’, Masculine Virtue maps changes in figurations of normative masculine conduct from 1500 to 1700. As Spain assumed the role of Europe’s first modern centralized empire, codes of masculine conduct changed to meet the demands of global rule. Viewed chronologically, Shifra Armon shows Spanish conduct literature to reveal three axes of transformation. The ideal subject (gendered male in both practice and law) became progressively more adaptable to changing circumstances, more intensely involved in currying his own public image, and more desirous of achieving renown. By bringing recent advances in gender theory to bear on normative rather than non-normative masculinities of early modern Spain, Armon is able to foreground the emergence of energizing new models of masculine virtue that continue to resonate today.

Author : Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000834543

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Women in Convent Spaces and the Music Networks of Early Modern Barcelona by Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita Pdf

This book presents the first study of music in convent life in a single Hispanic city, Barcelona, during the early modern era. Exploring how convents were involved in the musical networks operating in sixteenth-century Barcelona, it challenges the invisibility of women in music history and reveals the intrinsic role played by nuns and lay women in the city’s urban musical culture. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, this innovative study offers a cross-disciplinary approach that not only reveals details of the rich musical life in Barcelona’s nunneries, but shows how they took part in wider national and transnational networks of musical distribution, including religious, commercial, and social dimensions of music. The connections of Barcelona convents to networks for the dissemination of music in and outside the city provide a rich example of the close relationship between musical networks, urban society, and popular culture. Addressing how music was understood as a marker of identity, prestige, and social status and, above all, as a conduit between earth and heaven, this book provides new insights into how women shaped musical traditions in the urban context. It is essential reading for scholars of early modern history, musicology, history of religion, and gender studies, as well as all those with an interest in urban history and the city of Barcelona. The book is supported by additional digital appendices, which include: Records of inquiries into the lineage of Santa Maria de Jonqueres nuns Development of the collections of choir books belonging to the convents of Santa Maria de Jonqueres and Sant Antoni i Santa Clara

Author : Helen Nader
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Power (Social sciences)
ISBN : 0252028686

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Power and Gender in Renaissance Spain by Helen Nader Pdf

A collection of essays which provide portraits of eight of the Mendoza family's female members. It explores the lives of powerful women whose lineage gave them status within a patriarchal society designed to keep women from public life.

Author : Eukene Lacarra Lanz
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Marriage
ISBN : 0415936349

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Marriage and Sexuality in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia by Eukene Lacarra Lanz Pdf

This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.

Author : Stephanie Fink De Backer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004191709

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Widowhood in Early Modern Spain by Stephanie Fink De Backer Pdf

This study of Castilian widows, based on extensive analysis of literary and archival sources, provides insight into the complex mechanisms lying behind the formulation of gender boundaries and the pragmatic politics of everyday life in the early modern world.

Author : Society for Spanish & Portuguese Historical Studies. Meeting
Publisher : Mellen University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000393087

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Religion, Body and Gender in Early Modern Spain by Society for Spanish & Portuguese Historical Studies. Meeting Pdf

The title comes from three domains within the bounds of early modern Spain and follows from the renewal of historical studies dedicated to the Iberian peninsula. The book is divided into three parts: religious control and its limits in the Iberian world; images of the body in Spanish society; and women, gender, and family in Hapsburg Spain. The volume includes nine essays which are revised versions of papers originally presented at the 1990 Annual Meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies in New Orleans.