Women in Reconquest Castile: The Fueros of Sepulveda and Cuenca

Dillard, Heath

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“…The Christian theology embraced by Benavides and Pérez de Ribas implied that women could only have power if they gave themselves completely over to God as nuns, in imitation of Saint Mary, or through pacts with the devil, as per the witches who flew with Diana. 'Ordinary' women were understood to be powerless and requiring the guidance of male authority figures: priests, fathers, brothers and husbands (Dillard 1976;Lavrin 1989). Works such as The Perfect Wife (1943 [1583]) by Fray Luis de Leó n, The Book of the Courtier (c. 1521) by Castiglione, The Education of a Christian Woman (2000[1523) by Juan Luis Vives, and Erasmus's (1530) On Good Manners for Boys all offered 'guidance' for women, protecting them from themselves and preserving society against the inroads of Satan.…”

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Saints, Witches and Go-betweens: The Depiction of Women in Missionary Accounts from the Northern Frontier of New Spain

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Kelly

2009

Colonial Latin American Review

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Saints, Witches and Go-betweens: The Depiction of Women in Missionary Accounts from the Northern Frontier of New Spain

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Kelly

2009

Colonial Latin American Review

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Religion, nationalism and national identity in medieval Spain and Portugal

Linehan

1982

Stud. Church Hist.

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A no ser por el Clero, y en especial por el Episcopado español’, declared Vicente de Lafuente a century ago, ‘España sería un pais sin historia, pues la historia sin escribir no es historia’. Lafuente himself was a layman—though it did not always show—with conventional views regarding the ‘democratic tyranny’ of his age which a spell as rector of Madrid university during the student and other troubles of the mid-1870s served only to reinforce. He found it odd that he rather than an ecclesiastic should have written the first ecclesiastical history of Spain. A committee of churchmen had been formed in Rome for the purpose in 1747, but it is too soon to report on the outcome of that venture. Lafuente’s history, though more than a century old, is still the only full-scale work of its kind by a Spaniard—’and since that time there is not a single chronicle that I can discover; though (like John of Salisbury in his day) I have found in church archives notes of memorable events which could be of help to any future writers who may appear’. In presenting some of these notes here, in the context of the theme of this conference, I find myself altogether less daunted by the notion of nationalism, which a self–respecting medievalist is expected fastidiously to eschew, than by the problem of how to evaluate the testimony of so many witnesses, clerical and lay, medieval and modern.

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The construction of gender in colonial Latin America

Kuznesof

1992

Colonial Latin American Review

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Women in Reconquest Castile: The Fueros of Sepulveda and Cuenca

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Saints, Witches and Go-betweens: The Depiction of Women in Missionary Accounts from the Northern Frontier of New Spain

Saints, Witches and Go-betweens: The Depiction of Women in Missionary Accounts from the Northern Frontier of New Spain

Religion, nationalism and national identity in medieval Spain and Portugal

The construction of gender in colonial Latin America

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