Sex Crimes, Honour, and the Law in Early Modern Spain

Sex Crimes, Honour, and the Law in Early Modern Spain
Author: Renato Barahona
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802036940

Based on approx. 350 lawsuits from the Sala de Vizcaya at the Archivo de la Real Chancillería de Valladolid, between 1500 and 1750.

Exceptional Crime in Early Modern Spain

Exceptional Crime in Early Modern Spain
Author: Elena del Río Parra
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2019-06-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004392394

Exceptional Crime in Early Modern Spain accounts for the representation of violent and complex murders, analysing the role of the criminal, its portrayal through rhetorical devices, and its cultural and aesthetic impact. Proteic traits allow for an understanding of how crime is constructed within the parameters of exception, borrowing from pre-existent forms while devising new patterns and categories such as criminography, the “star killer”, the staging of crimes as suicides, serial murders, and the faking of madness. These accounts aim at bewildering and shocking demanding readers through a carefully displayed cult to excessive behaviour. The arranged “economy of death” displayed in murder accounts will set them apart from other exceptional instances, as proven by their long-standing presence in subsequent centuries.

Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain

Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain
Author: Allyson M. Poska
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2005-12-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199265313

Using a wide array of archival documentation, including Inquisition records, wills, dowry contracts, folklore, and court cases, Poska examines how early modern Spanish peasant women asserted and perceived their authority within the family and community and how the large numbers of female-headed households in the region functioned in the absence of men.

Widowhood in Early Modern Spain

Widowhood in Early Modern Spain
Author: Stephanie Fink De Backer
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2010-11-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004191399

This study of Castilian widows, based on extensive analysis of literary and archival sources, provides insight into the complex mechanisms lying behind the formulation of gender boundaries and the pragmatic politics of everyday life in the early modern world.

Early Modern Spain: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

Early Modern Spain: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
Author: Allyson Poska
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2010-06
Genre:
ISBN: 0199809879

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated. This ebook is just one of many articles from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Atlantic History, a continuously updated and growing online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through the scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of Atlantic History, the study of the transnational interconnections between Europe, North America, South America, and Africa, particularly in the early modern and colonial period. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibliographies.com.

Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal

Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal
Author: Francois Soyer
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2012-08-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004225293

Using new inquisitorial sources, this study examines the complexities revolving around transgenderism and the construction of gender identity in the early modern Iberian World and the self-perception of individuals whose behaviour, whether consciously or unconsciously, flouted social and sexual conventions.

The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe

The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe
Author: Amanda L. Capern
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2019-10-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000709590

The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe is a comprehensive and ground-breaking survey of the lives of women in early-modern Europe between 1450 and 1750. Covering a period of dramatic political and cultural change, the book challenges the current contours and chronologies of European history by observing them through the lens of female experience. The collaborative research of this book covers four themes: the affective world; practical knowledge for life; politics and religion; arts, science and humanities. These themes are interwoven through the chapters, which encompass all areas of women’s lives: sexuality, emotions, health and wellbeing, educational attainment, litigation and the practical and leisured application of knowledge, skills and artistry from medicine to theology. The intellectual lives of women, through reading and writing, and their spirituality and engagement with the material world, are also explored. So too is the sheer energy of female work, including farming and manufacture, skilled craft and artwork, theatrical work and scientific enquiry. The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe revises the chronological and ideological parameters of early-modern European history by opening the reader’s eyes to an exciting age of female productivity, social engagement and political activism across European and transatlantic boundaries. It is essential reading for students and researchers of early-modern history, the history of women and gender studies.

Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World

Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World
Author: Merry Wiesner-Hanks
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2014-05-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317723260

The book surveys the ways in which Christian ideas and institutions shaped sexual norms and conduct from the time of Luther and Columbus to that of Thomas Jefferson. It is global in scope and geographic in organization, with chapters on Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia, and North America. All the key topics are covered, including marriage and divorce, fornication and illegitimacy, clerical sexuality, same-sex relations, witchcraft and love magic, moral crimes, and inter-racial relationships. Each chapter in this second edition has been fully updated to reflect new scholarship, with expanded coverage of many of the key issues, particularly in areas outside of Europe. Other updates include extra analysis of the religious ideas and activities of ordinary people in Europe, and new material on the colonial world. The book sets its findings within the context of many historical fields- the history of sexuality and the body, women's history, legal and religious history, queer theory, and colonial studies- and provides readers with an introduction to key theoretical and methodological issues in each of these areas. Each chapter includes an extensive section on further reading, surveying and commenting on the newest English-language secondary literature.

Female Criminality and “Fake News” in Early Modern Spanish Pliegos Sueltos

Female Criminality and “Fake News” in Early Modern Spanish Pliegos Sueltos
Author: Stacey L. Parker Aronson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2021-12-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000510344

This book studies the Early Modern Spanish broadsheet, the tabloid newspaper of its day which functioned to educate, entertain, and indoctrinate its readers, much like today’s "fake news." Parker Aronson incorporates a socio-historical approach in which she considers crime and deviance committed by women in Early Modern Spain and the correlation between crime and the growth of urban centers. She also considers female deviance more broadly to encompass sexual and religious deviance while investigating the relationship between these pliegos sueltos and the transgressive and disruptive nature of female criminality. In addition to an introduction to this fascinating subgenre of Early Modern Spanish literature, Parker Aronson analyzes the representations of women as bandits and highway robbers; as murderers; as prostitutes, libertines, and actors; as Christian renegades; as enlaved people; as witches; as miscegenationists; and as the recipients of punishment.

Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modern Europe

Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modern Europe
Author: Charles Lipp
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2016-05-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317160363

In recent years scholars have increasingly challenged and reassessed the once established concept of the 'crisis of the nobility' in early-modern Europe. Offering a range of case studies from countries across Europe this collection further expands our understanding of just how the nobility adapted to the rapidly changing social, political, religious and cultural circumstances around them. By allowing readers to compare and contrast a variety of case studies across a range of national and disciplinary boundaries, a fuller - if more complex - picture emerges of the strategies and actions employed by nobles to retain their influence and wealth. The nobility exploited Renaissance science and education, disruptions caused by war and religious strife, changing political ideas and concepts, the growth of a market economy, and the evolution of centralized states in order to maintain their lineage, reputation, and position. Through an examination of the differing strategies utilized to protect their status, this collection reveals much about the fundamental role of the 'second order' in European history and how they had to redefine the social and cultural 'spaces' in which they found themselves. By using a transnational and comparative approach to the study of the European nobility, the volume offers exciting new perspectives on this important, if often misunderstood, social group.