Isabel rules : constructing queenship, wielding power / Barbara F. Weissberger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weissberger, Barbara F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role in literature.

Spanish literature--To 1500--History and criticism.

Women in literature.

Isabella I, Queen of Spain, 1451-1504--In literature.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 326 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As queen of Spain, Isabel I of Castile (Isabella the Catholic) laid the foundations for its emergence as the largest empire the West has ever known. This is the first book to examine the formation of the queen's image, focusing on strategies used to cope with the dissonance created by the combination of her gender and her patriarchal political program.

Contents:

Anxious masculinity

Fashioning Isabel's sovereignty

The discourse of effeminacy in Isabelline historiography

The neo-Gothic theory and the queen's body

Luis de Lucena and the rules of the game

The mad queen

Isabel in the Twentieth Century.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-306) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9488-5

OCLC:

191953057