Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain: A Tribute to Bábara Mujica (original) (raw)
2021, Comedia Performance
Book Reviews | 157 was published (under Calderón's name) as an illustrated libro de bolsillo in 1837. After that, however, El Lucero would not see print again until the second decade of the twenty-first century, when two critical editions (this one and another prepared by Daniele Crivellari, published in 2012) appeared. As always the case with this series, the editors do exemplary work presenting the many textual variants among the different manuscripts and published versions of the original comedia and its subsequent adaptations. With this invaluable edition of El Lucero de Castilla y Luna de Aragón, Manson and Peale make a strong case for a text of considerable potential interest to modern students of the comedia and lay a strong foundation for further scholarly attention.
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Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain: A Tribute to Bárbara Mujica
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Book Reviews | 157 was published (under Calderón's name) as an illustrated libro de bolsillo in 1837. After that, however, El Lucero would not see print again until the second decade of the twenty-first century, when two critical editions (this one and another prepared by Daniele Crivellari, published in 2012) appeared. As always the case with this series, the editors do exemplary work presenting the many textual variants among the different manuscripts and published versions of the original comedia and its subsequent adaptations. With this invaluable edition of El Lucero de Castilla y Luna de Aragón, Manson and Peale make a strong case for a text of considerable potential interest to modern students of the comedia and lay a strong foundation for further scholarly attention.
Gender & History, 2007
Catalina de Erauso (1592-1650) is a famous, if not infamous, figure in Spanish history. As a girl in 1603, she escaped from a convent in her native city to embark on a life of military adventure in the service of the king of Spain. Under the names Alonso Díaz or Antonio de Erauso, or the nickname 'Monja Alférez' ('Lieutenant Nun'), she became the very model of a bloodthirsty, womanising conquistador and swashbuckling swordsman. Nonetheless, the story of her life in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Spain and colonial Latin America is not an easy one to tell. This singular personage withstands the violence of words: she was an individual with a complex identity forged in a society very different from our own. Any attempt to examine the historical possibilities of her existence, and the actions -both her own and those of other people -that marked her path through life presents significant challenges. It requires us to explore the frontiers between men and women, femininity and masculinity, and thereby attempt to map the identities that existed in a particular context. It also requires us to answer the innumerable questions that surround our hero(ine), first and foremost the surprising political and religious recognition that Erauso gained from the highest authorities of her time. Moreover, the interest aroused by this story over the centuries will allow us to trace the ways in which individuals in more recent times have responded to these same questions.
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2014
This is an extraordinary collection of interdisciplinary essays in which the editors achieve multiple objectives, though some more completely than others. Using women as subject and gender as mode of analysis, they demonstrate the often obscured influence that women, especially "marginalized and peripheral" women, exercised in shaping empire in the Iberian World. Their stated emphasis on the great mobility
Women and siege: the construction and utilization of a legend (1589-1910)
In this work we study the implications of the Corunna siege. This fact was subjected in May 1589 by a fleet of 120 vessels commanded by Francis Drake. Although the invading force was repelled, the considerable cost in lives and goods made this incident one of the most memorable in the history of the locality, giving rise to official rhetoric and popular accounts, the mythical characteristics of which have hitherto received hardly any analysis. A striking leitmotiv of all versions of the siege is the prominent part played in the defence of the city, in roles usually reserved for men, by its womenfolk in general and by one woman in particular. The theme of the female warrior is not new in mythology, but there is little reason to suppose that the contemporary chronicles of the siege of Corunna, with their emphasis on its female defenders, were the direct descendants of the classical myth. Firstly, 'it has long been clear that this part of Europe has no true tradition of the Amazon myth, in spite of its folklore and history including all kinds of queens and heroines. Secondly, it is well known that between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries many chroniclers were apt to use classical models in recording contemporary events. Rather than appeal mechanically.
SVMMA. Revista de Cultures Medievals 4, pp. 220-222, 2014
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