Women's Acts

Women's Acts
Title Women's Acts PDF eBook
Author Teresa Scott Soufas
Publisher University Press of Kentucky
Pages 343
Release 2014-07-11
Genre Drama
ISBN 0813149290

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The plays are in Spanish. Los papeles están en el español.

Religious Women in Golden Age Spain

Religious Women in Golden Age Spain
Title Religious Women in Golden Age Spain PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt
Publisher Routledge
Pages 423
Release 2017-07-05
Genre History
ISBN 135190454X

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Through an examination of the role of nuns and the place of convents in both the spiritual and social landscape, this book analyzes the interaction of gender, religion and society in late medieval and early modern Spain. Author Elizabeth Lehfeldt here examines the tension between religious reform, which demanded that all nuns observe strict enclosure, and the traditional identity of Spanish nuns and their institutions, in which they were spiritually and temporally powerful women. Lehfeldt's work is based on the archival records of twenty-three convents in the city of Valladolid, and peninsula-wide documents that include visitation records, the constitutions of religious orders, and spiritual biographies. Religious Women in Golden Age Spain is the first book-length study in English to pose this chronological and conceptual framework for identifying and analyzing the role of nuns and convents in late-medieval and early-modern Spanish society.

Honor and Violence in Golden Age Spain

Honor and Violence in Golden Age Spain
Title Honor and Violence in Golden Age Spain PDF eBook
Author Scott K. Taylor
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 320
Release 2008-11-17
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 0300151691

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Early modern Spain has long been viewed as having a culture obsessed with honor, where a man resorted to violence when his or his wife's honor was threatened, especially through sexual disgrace. This book--the first to closely examine honor and interpersonal violence in the era--overturns this idea, arguing that the way Spanish men and women actually behaved was very different from the behavior depicted in dueling manuals, law books, and honor plays of the period. Drawing on criminal and other records to assess the character of violence among non-elite Spaniards, historian Scott K. Taylor finds that appealing to honor was a rhetorical strategy, and that insults, gestures, and violence were all part of a varied repertoire that allowed both men and women to decide how to dispute issues of truth and reputation.

Woman and Society in the Spanish Drama of the Golden Age

Woman and Society in the Spanish Drama of the Golden Age
Title Woman and Society in the Spanish Drama of the Golden Age PDF eBook
Author Melveena McKendrick
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 366
Release 1974-07-04
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0521202949

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An identification and analysis of Spanish Golden-Age drama's preoccupation with the woman who will not accept marriage as her natural role.

Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives

Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives
Title Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives PDF eBook
Author Martha Moffitt Peacock
Publisher BRILL
Pages 530
Release 2020-11-16
Genre Art
ISBN 9004432159

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A novel and female empowering interpretive approach to these artistic archetypes in her analysis of Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age.

Gender, Identity, and Representation in Spain's Golden Age

Gender, Identity, and Representation in Spain's Golden Age
Title Gender, Identity, and Representation in Spain's Golden Age PDF eBook
Author Anita K. Stoll
Publisher Bucknell University Press
Pages 220
Release 2000
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780838754252

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The essays in this collection provide new material to enable the continuing recuperation of the complex social ambiance that both created and was reflected in the literature of Spain's Golden Age.

Daily Life in Spain in the Golden Age

Daily Life in Spain in the Golden Age
Title Daily Life in Spain in the Golden Age PDF eBook
Author Marcelin Defourneaux
Publisher Stanford University Press
Pages 280
Release 1979
Genre History
ISBN 9780804710299

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A book about life in Spain from the succession of Philip II (1556) to the death of Philip IV (1665). The author relies primarily upon careful use of literary works and travel accounts written during this 'golden age'. In addition to delightful descriptions and anecdotes, he has woven into his text important political and economic developments. He provides a general view of Spain, stressing the importance of the Catholic faith and the emphasis upon personal honour, before surveying life and society in urban and rural areas. He then examines in some detail life in the Church, university, military and home; public entertainment; and the picaresque life.