Early modern women's mobility, authority, and agency across the Spanish empire / edited by Anne Cruz and Alejandra Franganillo Alvarez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cruz, Anne J., editor.

Franganillo Álvarez, Alejandra, editor.

Series:

Connected Histories in the Early Modern World Series

Connected Histories in the Early Modern World Series ; v.9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Social conditions.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

München, Germany : Routledge, 2025.

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No detailed description available for "Early Modern Women's Mobility, Authority, and Agency Across the Spanish Empire".

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Early Modern Women’s Mobility

Anne J. Cruz and Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez

Part I. Transoceanic Crossings

1. Inés Muñoz de Ribera: The Making of an Encomendera in Sixteenth-Century Peru

Liliana Pérez-Miguel

2. Isabel Barreto, Navigator of the South Seas and Governor of the Isles of Salomon

Mercedes Camino

3. Founding a Convent in the Philippines: Discursive Keys to Travel Narratives of Early Modern Female Religious Communities

María D. Martos Pérez

Part II. Gender Transactions

4. Cassandra Grimaldo’s Voyage of No Return: A Genoese Businesswoman in Habsburg Spain

Carmen Sanz Ayán

5. Trade, Credit, and Marriage: The Mobility of Portuguese Conversa Merchants and Financiers

Cristina Hernández Casado

6. Travel and the Illegible Body in the Historia de la Monja Alférez

Cortney Benjamin

7. Hortense Mancini: A Life on the Run

J. Antonio López Anguita

Part III. Transnational Politics

8. Seeking Support from the Spanish Monarchy: The Manly Flight of Mary Stuart O’Donnell, Countess of Tyrconnell

Montserrat Pérez-Toribio

9. Marie de Rohan, Duchess of Chevreuse: Schemer, Spy, and Wartime Fugitive at the European Courts

Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez

10. Mobilizing Female Relatives: The Countess of Berlepsch’s Strategies at the Habsburg Courts

Valentina Marguerite Kozák

11. A Cosmopolitan Ambassadress on the Road: Anna Colonna, Marquise of Los Balbases

Andrea Bergaz Álvarez Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

9789048557424

9048557429

OCLC:

1427667085