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Don Juan Pacheco
A genealogy -- The Prince's favorite (1436-1445) -- From Olmedo to the succession of Enrique (1445-1454) -- The Marquis of Villena's government (1454-1461) -- A prologue to civil war (1462-1465) -- Juan Pacheco and the two kings of Castilla (1465-1468) -- A turbulent era ends (1468-1474)
Power and Gender in Renaissance Spain
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.
The Politics of Emotion
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 Is...
Widowhood in Early Modern Spain
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.
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