Widowhood in early modern Spain : protectors, proprietors, and patrons / / by Stephanie Fink De Backer.

• Superior document: The medieval and early modern Iberian world, v. 40
• Author: Fink De Backer, Stephanie.
• प्रकाशन का वर्ष : 2010
• भाषा: English
• श्रृंखला: Medieval and early modern Iberian world ; v. 40.
• भौतिक वर्णन: 1 online resource (345 p.)
• टिप्पणियाँ: Description based upon print version of record.

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...