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The Spanish Habsburgs and Dynastic Rule, 1500–1700
Providing a novel research methodology for students and scholars with an interest in dynasties, at all levels, this book explores the Spanish Habsburg dynasty that ruled the Spanish monarchy between c. 1515 and 1700. Instead of focusing on the reigns of successive kings, the book focuses on the Habsburgs as a family group that was constructed in various ways: as a community of heirs, a genealogical narrative, a community of the dead and a ruling family group. These constructions reflect the fact that dynasties do not only exist in the present, as kings, queens or governors, but also in the past, in genealogies, and in the future, as a group of hypothetical heirs. This book analyses how dynas...
Queen, Mother, and Stateswoman
When Philip IV of Spain died in 1665, his heir, Carlos II, was three years old. In addition to this looming dynastic crisis, decades of enormous military commitments had left Spain a virtually bankrupt state with vulnerable frontiers and a depleted army. In Silvia Z. Mitchell’s revisionist account, Queen, Mother, and Stateswoman, Queen Regent Mariana of Austria emerges as a towering figure at court and on the international stage, while her key collaborators—the secretaries, ministers, and diplomats who have previously been ignored or undervalued—take their rightful place in history. Mitchell provides a nuanced account of Mariana of Austria’s ten-year regency (1665–75) of the global...
Corporate Social Responsibility
This book is a comprehensive guide to the fundamentals of corporate social responsibility and sustainability management in organizations. It describes the concepts and the process for developing a CSR strategy and its subsequent communication. The book develops the most relevant international initiatives and the theories that support strategic CSR decisions.
Women's Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World
Containing essays from leading and recent scholars in Peninsular and colonial studies, this volume offers entirely new research on women's acquisition and practice of literacy, on conventual literacy, and on the cultural representations of women's literacy. Together the essays reveal the surprisingly broad range of pedagogical methods and learning experiences undergone by early modern women in Spain and the New World. Focusing on the pedagogical experiences in Spain, New Spain (present-day Mexico), and New Granada (Colombia) of such well-known writers as Saint Teresa of Ávila, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and María de Zayas, as well as of lesser-known noble women and writers, and of nuns in...
Early Modern Habsburg Women
As the first comprehensive volume devoted entirely to women of both the Spanish and Austrian Habsburg royal dynasties spanning the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries, this interdisciplinary collection illuminates their complex and often contradictory political functions and their interrelations across early modern national borders. The essays in this volume investigate the lives of six Habsburg women who, as queens consort and queen regent, duchesses, a vicereine, and a nun, left an indelible mark on the diplomatic and cultural map of early modern Europe. Contributors examine the national and transnational impact of these notable women through their biographies, and explore how they tra...
El monasterio de las Descalzas Reales y sus confesores en la Edad Moderna
El oficio de confesor de monjas, fue un empleo deseado por todo religioso, a lo largo de la Edad Moderna. Máxime si el destino que se conseguía era un enclave de influencia no sólo espiritual, sino social y político. El monasterio de las Descalzas Reales fue una plaza de primer orden por relevantes motivos: su situación privilegiada en Madrid, centro de la Monarquía de los Austrias; la dependencia directa del General de la Orden Franciscana y el gozar de la protección de los reyes, por su condición de Patronato Real. Siendo este cenobio uno de los enclaves espirituales y políticos más importantes de la Edad Moderna, poder llegar a ser confesor de este monasterio, supuso para cualquier religioso franciscano un antes y un después en su carrera eclesiástica. En este libro se dan a conocer por primera vez, las características comunes de los religiosos que ocuparon el confesionario del monasterio: su formación, sus inquietudes intelectuales, su modo de vida, sus redes clientelares y, lo que el nombramiento como confesor de esta importante comunidad religiosa, supuso para su proyección a otros importantes cargos.
Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress (1528-1603)
Maria of Austria was one of the longest surviving Renaissance Empresses but until now has received little attention by biographers. This book explores her life, actions, and management of domestic affairs, which became a feared example of how an Empress could control alternative spheres of power. The volume traces the path of a Castilian orphan infanta, raised among her mother’s Portuguese ladies-in-waiting and who spent thirty years of marriage between the imperial courts of Prague and Vienna. Empress Maria encapsulates the complex dynastic functioning of the Habsburgs: devotedly married to her cousin Maximilian II, Maria had constant communication with her father Charles V and her brothe...
