Women and community in medieval and early modern Iberia
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Women and community in medieval and early modern Iberia
（Women and gender in the early modern world）
University of Nebraska Press, c2020
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
2020 Collaborative Project Award by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender
Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia draws on recent research to underscore the various ways Iberian women influenced and contributed to their communities, engaging with a broader academic discussion of women's agency and cultural impact in the Iberian Peninsula. By focusing on women from across the socioeconomic and religious spectrum-elite, bourgeois, and peasant Christian women, Jewish, Muslim, converso, and Morisco women, and married, widowed, and single women-this volume highlights the diversity of women's experiences, examining women's social, economic, political, and religious ties to their families and communities in both urban and rural environments.
Comprised of twelve essays from both established and new scholars, Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia showcases groundbreaking work on premodern women, revealing the complex intersections between gender and community while highlighting not only relationships of support and inclusion but also the tensions that worked to marginalize and exclude women.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Contextualizing Women, Agency, and Communities in Premodern Iberia
Michelle Armstrong-Partida, Alexandra Guerson, and Dana Wessell Lightfoot
Part 1. Community Networks and Economic Agency
1. Credit and Connections: Jewish Women between Communities in Vic, 1250-1350
Sarah Ifft Decker
2. Challenges Facing Mallorcan Conversas after 1391
Natalie Oeltjen
3. Death and Gender in Late Sixteenth-Century Toledo
Grace E. Coolidge
Part 2. Challenging Communal Ties
4. Women, Injurious Words, and Clerical Violence in Fourteenth-Century Catalunya
Michelle Armstrong-Partida
5. Women, Violence, and Community in Late Medieval Valencia
Mark Meyerson
6. Mixed Marriages and Community Identity in Fifteenth-Century Girona
Alexandra Guerson and Dana Wessell Lightfoot
7. In Defense of Community: Morisca Women in Sixteenth-Century Valladolid
Stephanie M. Cavanaugh
Part 3. Institutional Relationships and Creating Communities
8. Looking for a Way to Survive: Community and Institutional Assistance to Widows in Medieval Barcelona
Mireia Comas-Via
9. Founders, Sisters, and Neighbors in the Thirteenth Century: Women and Community at Santa Maria de Celas, Coimbra
Miriam Shadis
10. Scandal and the Social Networks of Religious Women
Michelle M. Herder
11. Minerva of Her Time: Luisa Sigea and Humanist Networking
Rachel F. Stapleton
12. So That They Will Remember Me: Seroras and Their Testaments in the Early Modern Basque Country
Amanda L. Scott
Conclusion: Iberian Women and Communities across Time
Allyson M. Poska
Contributors
Index
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