| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 288 pages) |
| Series |
Women and gender in the early modern world |
| Contents |
Introduction / Michelle Armstrong-Partida, Alexandra Guerson, and Dana Wessell Lightfoot – Part 1. Community networks and economic agency. 1. Credit and Connections : Jewish women between communities in Vic, 1250-1350 / Sarah Ifft Decker ; 2. Challenges Facing Mallorcan Conversas after 1391 / Natalie Oeltjen ; 3. Death and Gender in Late Sixteenth-Century Toledo / Grace E. Coolidge – Part 2. Challenging communal ties. 4. Women, Injurious Words, and Clerical Violence in Fourteenth-Century Catalunya / Michelle Armstrong-Partida ; 5. Women, Violence, and Community in Late Medieval Valencia / Mark Meyerson ; 6. Mixed Marriages and Community Identity in Fifteenth-Century Girona / Alexandra Guerson, and Dana Wessell Lightfoot ; 7. In Defense of Community : Morisca women in sixteenth-century Valladolid / Stephanie M. Cavanaugh -- Part 3. Institutional relationships and creating communities. 8. Looking for a Way to Survive : Community and institutional assistance to widows in medieval Barcelona / Mireia Comas-Via ; 9. Founders, Sisters, and Neighbors in the Thirteenth Century : Women and community at Santa Maria de Celas, Coimbra / Miriam Shadis; 10. Scandal and the Social Networks of Religious Women / Michelle M. Herder ; 11. Minerva of Her Time : Luisa Sigea and Humanist networking / Rachel F. Stapleton ; 12. So That They Will Remember Me : Seroras and their testaments in the early modern Basque Country / Amanda L. Scott -- Conclusion: Iberian women and communities across time / Allyson M.Poska |
| Summary |
"Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia draws on recent research to underscore the various ways in which women influenced and contributed to their communities, engaging with a broader academic discussion of women's agency and cultural impact in the Iberian peninsula"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Women -- Iberian Peninsula -- History -- To 1500
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Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500.
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Communities -- Iberian Peninsula -- History -- To 1500
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HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal
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Communities
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Social conditions
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Women
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Women -- Middle Ages
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| SUBJECT |
Iberian Peninsula -- Social conditions
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| Subject |
Europe -- Iberian Peninsula
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Armstrong-Partida, Michelle, 1974- editor.
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Guerson, Alexandra, editor.
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Lightfoot, Dana Wessell, editor.
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| LC no. |
2019035337 |
| ISBN |
9781496219695 |
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1496219694 |
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9781496219671 |
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1496219678 |
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