1st Edition

Early Modern Women's Mobility, Authority, and Agency Across the Spanish Empire

Edited By Anne Cruz, Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez Copyright 2024
280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

The new parameters of a global world in the early modern period gave rise to an expansion of movement that facilitated spatial and social mobility for women of different social ranks. Through their reexamination of archival documents and travel narratives, these essays investigate the opportunities for female mobility across the Spanish Empire, narrating the journeys of women who assumed new and... Read more
Introduction: Early Modern Women's Mobility, Part I. Transoceanic Crossings, Part II. Gender Transactions, Part III. Transnational Politics, Notes on Contributors

Biography

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.