Warnings to the Kings and Advice on Restoring Spain A Bilingual Edition

Name: Warnings to the Kings and Advice on Restoring Spain A Bilingual Edition
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ISBN: 9780226140803

ISBN-10: 0226140806

ISBN-13: 9780226140803

Edition: 2007

Authors: Marï¿½a de Guevara, Nieves Romero-Dï¿½az, Maria De Guevara

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During a pivotal point in Spanish history, aristocrat María de Guevara (?–1683) produced two extraordinary essays that appealed for strong leadership, protested political corruption, and demanded the inclusion of women in the court’s decision making. “Treaty” gave Philip IV practical suggestions for fighting the war against Portugal and “Disenchantments” counseled the king-to-be, Charles II, on strategies to raise the country’s status in Europe. This annotated bilingual edition, featuring Nieves Romero-Díaz’s adroit translation, reproduces Guevara’s polemics for the first time. Guevara’s provocative writings call on Spanish women to bare the responsibility equally with men for restoring…

Book details

List price: $46.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 180
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880

Sarah Nelson is a research fellow in the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships at the University of Edinburgh.Nieves Romero-Dï¿½az is associate professor of Spanish at Mount Holyoke College. nbsp; nbsp; nbsp;



Acknowledgments


Series Editors' Introduction


Abbreviations


Volume Editor's Introduction


Volume Editor's Bibliography



Treatise and Warnings by a Woman, Concerned for the Good of Her King, and Affronted by Part of Spain (1663)



Disenchantments at the Court and Valorous Women (1664)



Memorial of the House of Escalante...(1654)



Report on the Day's Journey That the Countess of Escalante Made to the City of Vitoria to Kiss Her Majesty's Hand


Notes


Series Editors' Bibliography


Index