Free Download Nuria Silleras-Fernandez, "The Politics of Emotion: Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia"
English | ISBN: 1501773860 | 2024 | 390 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The Politics of Emotion explores the intersection of powerful emotional states―love, melancholy, grief, and madness―with gender and political power on the Iberian Peninsula from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. Using an array of sources―literary texts, medical treatises, and archival documents―Nuria Silleras-Fernandez focuses on three royal women: Isabel of Portugal (1428-1496), queen-consort of Castile; Isabel of Aragon (1470-1498), queen-consort of Portugal; and Juana of Castile (1479-1555), queen of Castile and its empire. Each of these women was perceived by their contemporaries as having gone "mad" as a result of excessive grief, and all three were related to Isabel the Catholic (1451-1504), queen of Castile and a woman lauded in her time as a paragon of reason.