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Nuria Silleras-Fernandez - Chariots of Ladies: Francesc Eiximenis and the Court Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Iberia - 9780801453830 - V9780801453830
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Chariots of Ladies: Francesc Eiximenis and the Court Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Iberia

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Description for Chariots of Ladies: Francesc Eiximenis and the Court Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Iberia hardcover. Num Pages: 328 pages, 8, 6 black & white halftones, 1 diagrames, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1DS; HBJD; HBLC1; HRAX; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 428.

In Chariots of Ladies, Núria Silleras-Fernández traces the development of devotion and female piety among the Iberian aristocracy from the late Middle Ages into the Golden Age, and from Catalonia to the rest of Iberia and Europe via the rise of the Franciscan Observant movement. A program of piety and morality devised by Francesc Eiximenis, a Franciscan theologian, royal counselor, and writer in Catalonia in the 1390s, came to characterize the feminine ideal in the highest circles of the Iberian aristocracy in the era of the Empire. As Eiximenis’s work was adapted and translated into Castilian over the century and ... Read more

Silleras-Fernández uses archival documentation, letters, manuscripts, incunabula, and a wide range of published material to clarify how Eiximenis’s ideas on gender and devotion were read by Countess Sanxa Ximenis d’Arenós and Queen Maria de Luna of Aragon and how they were then changed by his adaptors and translators in Castile for new readers (including Isabel the Catholic and Juana the Mad), and in sixteenth-century Portugal for new patronesses (Juana’s daughter, Catalina of Habsburg, and Catalina’s daughter, Maria Manuela, first wife of Philip II). Chariots of Ladies casts light on a neglected dimension of encounter and exchange in Iberia from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801453830
SKU
V9780801453830
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About Nuria Silleras-Fernandez
Núria Silleras-Fernández is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Colorado–Boulder. She is the author of Power, Piety, and Patronage in Late Medieval Queenship: Maria de Luna and coeditor of In and Of the Mediterranean: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Studies.

Reviews for Chariots of Ladies: Francesc Eiximenis and the Court Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
Convincingly demonstrates the lasting influence of Eiximenis's models of womanly virtue and queenship.... Seamlessly unites literary and historical analysis, and the result is illuminating and eminently readable.
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Besides its perfect contextualization, his- torical detail, historiographical precision, and general knowledge about the world surrounding Eiximenis across the Crown of Aragon (which occupies most of the first part ... Read more

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