Representing Womens Political Identity in the Early Modern Iberian World
By exploring textual, visual and material culture, this volume presents a range of new research into the experiences, agencies and diverse political identities of Iberian women between the fifteenth and early-eighteenth century.
Representing Womens Political Identity in the Early Modern Iberian World explores how the political identities of Iberian women were represented in various forms of visual culture including: religious paintings and portraiture; costume; and devotional and funerary sculpture. This study examines the transmission of Iberian culture and its concepts of identity to locations such as Peru, Goa and Mexico, providing a rich insight into Iberias complex history and legacy. The collection of essays explores the lives of protagonists, which vary from queens and members of the nobility to painters and nuns, allowing for a more nuanced understanding of both the elite and non-elite womans experience in Spain, Portugal and their overseas realms during the early modern period.
By addressing the significance of gender alongside the visual representation of political ideology and identity, this book is an invaluable source for students and researchers of early modern Iberia and the history of women.
Jeremy Roe is a translator and independent researcher affiliated with the Centro de Humanidades, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He has published a range of articles and book chapters on the representation of political authority and the intersections of Iberian visual and literary culture.
Jean Andrews is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, University of Nottingham. She co-edited Writing Royal Entries in Early Modern Europe (2014) and Art and Painting, Vicente Carducho and Baroque Spain (2016). Her monograph Painting and Devotion in Golden Age Iberia: Luis de Morales was published in 2020.
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Names: Roe, J. (Jeremy), editor. | Andrews, Jean, 1962- editor.
Title: Representing women's political identity in the early modern Iberian world / edited by Jeremy Roe and Jean Andrews.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020018494 | ISBN 9781138541856 (hardback) | ISBN 9781138541863 (paperback) | ISBN 9781351010122 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: WomenIberian PeninsulaHistory. | WomenPolitical activityIberian PeninsulaHistory. | WomenIberian PeninsulaIdentityHistory. | WomenHistoryRenaissance, 1450-1600. | WomenHistoryModern period, 1600-Classification: LCC HQ1149.I18 R47 2021 | DDC 305.40946dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020018494
ISBN: 978-1-138-54185-6 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-54186-3 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-351-01012-2 (ebk)
In memoriam Trevor J. Dadson
Jean Andrews is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Nottingham. She is co-editor of Writing Royal Entries in Early Modern Europe (Brepols 2014) and Art and Painting, Vicene Carducho and Baroque Spain (University of Wales Press, 2016). Her monograph on Luis de Morales, Painting and Devotion in Golden Age Iberia (University of Wales Press), was published in 2020.
Diane H. Bodart is David Rosand Associate Professor of Italian Renaissance Art History at Columbia University and the author of Tiziano e Federico Gonzaga (1998) and Pouvoirs du portrait sous les Habsbourg dEspagne. She recently edited Wearing Images (2018) and co-edited Rire en images la Renaissance (2018).
Gema Rivas Gmez Calcerrada is a doctoral student and faculty member of the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She recently published the chapter Mara de Guadalupe de Lencastre o la Presidenta del Parnaso: referente femenino de identidad transatlntica para sor Juana Ins de la Cruz in the book Sor Juana Ins de la Cruz e Portugal. Jornada Sor Juana Ins de la Cruz: A Dcima Musa (2019).
Trevor J. Dadson, FBA, Professor Emeritus at Queen Mary, University of London, was a leading scholar of Golden Age Spain. Recent publications include a study of Diego de Silva y Mendoza, Count of Salinas (2011), an edition of the letters and documents of the Princess of boli and a biography of the Princess (2015), an edition of the letters and memorials of the Count of Salinas (2015), an edition of the Counts unedited poetry (2016), a second edition of his book on the Moriscos of Villarrubia de los Ojos (2015) and books in Spanish (2017) and English (2014) on the Moriscos of the Campo de Calatrava.
Vanessa de Cruz Medina is an independent scholar specialising in the correspondence of Spanish royal and noble women and the political and artistic relations between the court of Madrid, the Holy Roman Empire, and Italy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Her most recent book Una dama en la corte de Felipe II: Cartas de Ana de Dietrichstein a su madre, Margarita de Cardona (1573/41582) is to be published shortly
Susana Varela Flor is a research fellow at the Institute of Art History at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She is the author of Aurum Regina or Queen Gold: Retratos de D. Catarina de Bragana entre Portugal e a Inglaterra de Seiscentos (2012) and co-author of Retratos do Pao Ducal de Vila Viosa (2018).
Annemarie Jordan Gschwend is Research Scholar with the Centro de Humanidades at the Universiade Nova in Lisbon and the author of numerous publications and exhibition catalogues on early modern Habsburg collecting, patronage and menageries. She recently co-edited with K.J.P. Lowe, the award-winning book entitled The Global City: On the Streets of Renaissance Lisbon (2015).
Carla Alferes Pinto is Research Fellow at CHAM Centre for the Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa/FCSH, Lisbon. She is an art historian and the author of numerous publications on early modern womens production, commissioning and consumption of art.
Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the Universidade de Lisboa. She has authored the book
