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  • Record Number: 5004
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  • Title: Lourdes Ortiz's "Urraca": A Re-vision/Revision of History [Ortiz's historical novel brings a complex Queen Urraca to life. During her forced retirement in a monastery, she challenges the chronicle accounts and asserts her legitimacy as a ruler. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Romance Quarterly 38, 4 (November 1991): Pages 437 - 448.
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  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Historical Novels Historiography Ortiz, Lourdes, Author (1943- )- Urraca Queens in Literature Rulers Urraca, Queen of Castile- Leon
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  • Geographic Area: Iberia
  • Century: 12, 20
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  • Year of Publication: 1991.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 08831157