EARLY MODERN HABSBURG WOMEN
Women and Gender in the
Early Modern World
Series Editors:
Allyson Poska, The University of Mary Washington, USA
Abby Zanger
The study of women and gender offers some of the most vital and innovative challenges to current scholarship on the early modern period. For more than a decade now, Women and Gender in the Early Modern World has served as a forum for presenting fresh ideas and original approaches to the field. Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary in scope, this Ashgate book series strives to reach beyond geographical limitations to explore the experiences of early modern women and the nature of gender in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. We welcome proposals for both single-author volumes and edited collections which expand and develop this continually evolving field of study.
Titles in the series include:
Womens Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World
Edited by Anne J. Cruz and Rosilie Hernndez
Education and Women in the Early Modern Hispanic World
Elizabeth Teresa Howe
Early Modern Habsburg Women
Transnational Contexts, Cultural Conflicts,
Dynastic Continuities
Edited by
ANNE J. CRUZ and MARIA GALLI STAMPINO
University of Miami, USA
First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Early modern Habsburg women: transnational contexts, cultural conflicts, dynastic continuities / edited by Anne J. Cruz and Maria Galli Stampino.
pages cm.(Women and gender in the early modern world)
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-4724-1164-8 (hardcover: alk. paper)ISBN 978-1-3155-7847-7 (ebook)ISBN 978-1-3171-4691-9 (epub)
1. QueensEuropeBiography. 2. Habsburg, House of. 3. CountessesEuropeBiography. 4. Marriages of royalty and nobilityEurope. I. Cruz, Anne J. II. Stampino, Maria Galli.
D107.3.E37 2014
943.60309252dc23
2013016006
ISBN 9781472411648 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315578477 (ebk-PDF)
ISBN 9781317146919 (ebk-ePUB)
Contents
Anne J. Cruz
Joseph F. Patrouch
Maria Galli Stampino
Blythe Alice Raviola
Magdalena S. Snchez
Vanessa de Cruz Medina
Flix Labrador Arroyo
Mara Cruz de Carlos Varona
Silvia Z. Mitchell
Mercedes Llorente
Laura Olivn Santaliestra
Cordula van Wyhe
List of Illustrations
Cover image: Mariana de Austria, 1652. Diego de Velzquez.
Oil on canvas, 231 x 131 cm, Museo Nacional del Prado,
Madrid. Album, Art Resource.
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Contributors
Anne J. Cruz is professor of Spanish and Cooper Fellow at the University of Miami, where she chaired the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures from 2003 to 2008. She has published widely on early modern Spanish literature and culture, and has recently coedited, with Rosilie Hernndez, the collection Womens Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World, which received the Society for the Study of Early Modern Womens Collaborative Research Award. Her study and translation, The Life and Writings of Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza: Autobiography, Correspondence, Poetry, is forthcoming in the series The Other Voice (Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, University of Toronto). She is the series editor of New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies, with Ashgate. In 2012, she was named acadmica correspondiente of Spains Royal Academy of History.
Mara Cruz de Carlos Varona is assistant curator in the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs of the Museo Nacional del Prado. Previously, she was professor of art history at the Universidad Autnoma, Madrid. She has recently coauthored, with Javier Blas and Jos M. Matilla, Grabadores extranjeros en la corte espaola del Barroco (Madrid, 2012). She has recently published the essay Saints and sinners in Madrid and Naples: Saint Mary Magdalene as a model of Conversion and Penance in the exhibition catalog Jusepe de Riberas Mary Magdalene in a new Context (Museo Nacional del Prado-Meadows Museum, 2011). Her current interest is in womens culture in early modern Spain, religious images in the Spanish world, and print culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Vanessa de Cruz Medina will be Mellon visiting fellow at Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy (2014). She was Juan de la Cierza postdoctoral fellow at the Fundacin Carlos de Amberes, Madrid, after receiving her Ph.D. in history from the Universidad Complutense, Madrid with a dissertation on correspondence, women, and the court in early modern Spain. She has published Una dama en la corte de Felipe II: cartas de Ana de Dietrichstein a su madre, Margarita de Cardona (Charles University, Prague, 2013), and contributed chapters to numerous books and articles. Her article In service to my Lady, the Empress, as I have done every other day of my life: Margarita de Cardona, Baroness of Dietrichstein and Lady-in-Waiting to Mara of Austria, is forthcoming in The Politics of Female Households: Ladies-in-waiting across Europe, ed. N. Akkerman and B. Houben (Brill).
Flix Labrador Arroyo is assistant professor of modern history and chair of the Department of Educational Sciences, Language, Culture, and the Arts at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid. He is a research member of the University Institute of the Court in Europe, Universidad Autnoma, Madrid. He has published Corte y casa real en Portugal durante los reinados de Felipe II y Felipe III (15801621) (2009); and Evolucin y estructura de la Casa de Castilla