Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville

Name: Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville
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ISBN: 9780691008547

ISBN-10: 069100854X

ISBN-13: 9780691008547

Edition: 1990

Authors: Mary Elizabeth Perry

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In this exploration of crisis in Counter-Reformation Spain, Mary Elizabeth Perry reveals the significance of gender for social order by portraying the lives of women who lived on the margins of respectability--prostitutes, healers, visionaries, and other deviants who provoked the concern of a growing central government linked closely to the church. Focusing on Seville, the commercial capital of Habsburg Spain, Perry uses rich archival sources to document the economic and spiritual activity of women, and efforts made by civil and church authorities to control this activity, during a period of local economic change and religious turmoil. In analyzing such sources as art and literature from…

Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/19/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.57" wide x 9.09" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English