Early Modern Women s Mobility, Authority, and Agency Across the - Spanish Empir

This text charts early modern women's mobility across Spanish Empire and offers a new perspective on women's agency in male-dominated fields, It encompasses a breadth of women's social levels and activities.

List of contents

Introduction: Early Modern Women's Mobility, Part I. Transoceanic Crossings, Part II. Gender Transactions, Part III. Transnational Politics, Notes on Contributors

About the author

Anne J. Cruz is Professor Spanish and Cooper Fellow in the Humanities Emerita at the University of Miami. She has published on Renaissance poetics, the picaresque novel, Cervantes, and early modern women. A corresponding member of Spain's Royal Academy of History, she edits the series New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies. Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez is Assistant Professor of History at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid. Her research focuses on early modern queenship and court patronage. Her recent book on Isabel de Borbón investigates the Spanish queen's noble household; she is currently studying the political agency of female nobility.

Product details

• Authors: Anne Franganillo Alvarez Cruz
• Assisted by: Anne Cruz (Editor), Alejandra Franganillo Alvarez (Editor), Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez (Editor)
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2024
• EAN: 9789463723299
• ISBN: 978-94-63-72329-9
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous