Editorial: University of Nebraska Press
Colección: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World Series
Número de páginas: 328 págs.
Fecha de edición: 01-12-2022
EAN: 9781496218803
ISBN: 978-1-4962-1880-3
Precio (sin IVA): 69,53 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 72,31 €
This book looks at illegitimacy across the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyzes its implications for gender and family structure in the Spanish nobility, a class whose actions, structure, and power had immense implications for the future of the country and empire. Grace E. Coolidge demonstrates that women and men were able to challenge traditional honor codes, repair damaged reputations, and manipulate ideals of marriage and sexuality to encompass extramarital sexuality and the nearly constant presence of illegitimate children.