Widowhood in early modern Spain : protectors, proprietors, and patrons / / by Stephanie Fink De Backer.
Based on clerical ideals of female comportment and Golden Age playwrights’ fixation on questions of honor, modern scholarship, whether historical or literary, has viewed women as subjects and objects of patriarchal control. This study analyzes tensions and contradictions produced by the interplay of...
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| Superior document: | The medieval and early modern Iberian world, v. 40 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Medieval and early modern Iberian world ;
v. 40. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (345 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Widows and the literary imagination
- Subjects of counsel
- Objects of desire
- Sex in the city
- To her alone pertains the governance of all her house (Gaspar Astete)
- Master and mistress of the household
- Father and mother of their children
- A widow's work is never done
- Worthy recipients and pious donors
- Widowhood, poverty, and charity
- Family, memory, and the sacralization of urban space
- Coda. The strange case of a wicked and cruel woman.