Representing Women's Political Identity in the Early Modern World
- Submitting institution
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University of Nottingham, The
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 4932376
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781351010122
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
- ISBN
- 9781138541863
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Andrews co-conceived this collection of essays by scholars from Spain, Portugal, Germany, Switzerland, the U.S and the U.K, which presents a series of case studies of the projection of women’s political power in Iberia, the Iberian empires and the wider sphere of Iberian influence in the Early Modern period. Consideration of Spain, Portugal and their empires as a quasi-integrated entity in the areas of visual, festal, print and devotional culture is rarely engaged in but is what this volume does.
Some of the female figures, such as the Princess of Éboli, are well-known in history and fiction but are re-visited in this volume with the benefit of new materials or perspectives. The stories of others have lain, until recently, in relative obscurity but are examined here thanks to extensive archival research. The whole provides a comprehensive overview of the activities and influence of a range of significant women and demonstrates how well they employed those means of communication available to them in the pursuit of influence and agency.
The individual essays are the outcome of two colloquia held respectively at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in November 2016 and at the University of Nottingham in September 2017 with each of the speakers selected by the editors to make a specific contribution to the volume. Andrews’s research shaped the volume's aims and objectives.
Her chapter is based on new research on the painter Josefa de Óbidos (1634-1684), her St Catherine altarpiece in the parish church of Óbidos, 1661 and its allusions to the marriage of Catherine of Bragança to Charles II of England in 1662 (8,400 words). The introduction is 3,500 words in total. She also translated two chapters from Portuguese and one from Spanish.
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