ABSTRACT
By exploring textual, visual and material culture, this volume presents a range of new research into the experiences, agencies and diverse political identities of Iberian women between the fifteenth and early-eighteenth century.
Representing Women’s Political Identity in the Early Modern Iberian World explores how the political identities of Iberian women were represented in various forms of visual culture including: religious paintings and portraiture; costume; and devotional and funerary sculpture. This study examines the transmission of Iberian culture and its concepts of identity to locations such as Peru, Goa and Mexico, providing a rich insight into Iberia’s complex history and legacy. The collection of essays explores the lives of protagonists, which vary from queens and members of the nobility to painters and nuns, allowing for a more nuanced understanding of both the elite and non-elite woman’s experience in Spain, Portugal and their overseas realms during the early modern period.
By addressing the significance of gender alongside the visual representation of political ideology and identity, this book is an invaluable source for students and researchers of early modern Iberia and the history of women.
Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|116 pages
The politics of non-elite devotional identities in textual, visual and material culture
chapter 1|20 pages
Three Willful characters in search of God
chapter 2|18 pages
From spectatorship to sponsorship
part II|112 pages
Spaces and spectacles of the female courtier
chapter 6|19 pages
The monastery I have built in this city of Madrid
chapter 7|23 pages
Ladies-in-waiting at the Spanish Habsburg Palaces and convents, the Alcázar and the Descalzas Reales (1570–1603) 1
chapter 9|26 pages
The RelLação do torneio que fizeram as damas da Rainha Nossa Senhora, a noite do Baptisado do Sr Infante D. Pedro…
part III|83 pages
Rethinking regal iconography