Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 2334
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Lehfeldt , Elizabeth A.
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  • Title: The Gender Shared Sovereignty: Texts and the Royal Marriage of Isabella and Ferdinand [The author analyzes the first year of Isabella's and Ferdinand's joint reign through the texts of four chroniclers: Fernando del Pulgar, Alfonso de Palencia, Diego de Valera, and Juan de Flores. Lehfeldt finds that Valera consistently defends Isabella's right to rule, while Palencia is harshly critical much of the time. Flores and Pulgar seemingly tried to avoid committing themselves to either monarch. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Women, Texts, and Authority in the Early Modern Spanish World.  Edited by Marta V. Vicente and Luis R. Corteguera.  Ashgate, 2003.  Pages 37 - 55.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Chronicles Ferdinand Gender Historiography Isabella I, la Catolica, Queen of Castile Marriage Politics Queens Rulers Women in Active Roles Women in Literature
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  • Geographic Area: Iberia
  • Century: 15
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  • Author's Affiliation: Cleveland State University
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  • Year of Publication: 2003.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0754609502