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Guardianship, Gender, and the Nobility in Early Modern Spain - Grace E. Coolidge

Guardianship, Gender, and the Nobility in Early Modern Spain

Buch | Hardcover
184 Seiten
2011
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4094-0053-0 (ISBN)
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Contrary to early modern patriarchal assumptions, this study argues that rather trying to impose obedience or enclosure on women of their own rank and status, noblemen in early modern Spain depended on the active collaboration of noblewomen to maintain and expand their authority, wealth, and influence. While the image of virtuous, secluded, silent, and chaste women did bolster male authority in general and help to assure individual noblemen that their children were their own, the presence of active, vocal, and political women helped these same men move up the social ladder, guard their property and wealth, gain political influence, win legal battles, and protect their minor heirs. Drawing on a variety of documents-guardianships, wills, dowry and marriage contracts, lawsuits, genealogies, and a few letters-from the family archives of the nine noble families housed in the Osuna and Frías collections in Toledo, Guardianship, Gender and the Nobility in Early Modern Spain explores the lives and roles of female guardians. Grace Coolidge examines in detail the legal status of these women, their role within their families, and their responsibilities for the children and property in their care. To Spanish noblemen, Coolidge argues, the preservation of family, power, and lineage was more important than the prescriptive gender roles of their time, and faced with the emergency generated by the premature death of the male title holder, they consistently turned to the adult women in their families for help. Their need for support and for allies against their own mortality meant, in turn, that they expected and trained their female relatives to take an active part in the economic and political affairs of the family.

Grace E. Coolidge is an Associate Professor of History at Grand Valley State University, USA.

Contents: Introduction; Inheritance law, guardianship, and women; 'The great love and affection I have for her'; appointing female guardians; 'Giving security to the youthful years': raising wards and managing noble property; 'With license and authority'; arranging marriages for noble wards; 'A guardian should bring suit': female guardians in court; 'I have been diligent': life after guardianship; Conclusion; Works cited; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.1.2011
Reihe/Serie Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 498 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-4094-0053-0 / 1409400530
ISBN-13 978-1-4094-0053-0 / 9781409400530
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