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The article titled "Women in Ecclesiastical Discourse: Spain, France, Portugal, and Italy (16th-18th centuries)" is a collection of essays edited by Rosa María Alabrús Iglesias that addresses the representation of women in religious discourse during the 16th to 18th centuries in Spain, France, Portugal, and Italy. The essays analyze how women were imagined, exhorted, defended, and examined by mostly male writers in different political and social contexts. Topics such as the debate on the nature and role of women, the involvement of social class in their religious participation, the value of contemplative vocation versus the practice of charity, and the role of women in the Church's response to the challenges of the Protestant Reformation are highlighted. The book offers a detailed insight into these discursive representations of women and their historical context. [Extracted from the article]

As the grand chancellor under Emperor Charles V, Mercurino di Gattinara (1465-1530) orchestrated the administration and the aims of the Spanish Empire. Claiming messianic status for Charles V, and supernatural powers for himself, Gattinara appropriated several fourteenth century sources such as Dante and Bartolus to establish political hegemony. More disturbingly, he embraced the irrational in the form of dreams, prophecies, and occult knowledge in a calculated effort to manipulate the emotions of his audience. This article argues that Gattianra used a sense of nostalgia for political ends. His deliberate attempt to create a simulacrum of the Middle Ages in a world that was recognized as fundamentally different by the politically astute was part of a medieval revival that permeated political life in Italy throughout the sixteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries people perceived themselves as members of particular ethnic groups and considered dress to be an important marker of, alternatively, similarity or otherness. Whereas the construction of self and other in literary texts and costume books has been widely discussed, relatively little is known about the relevance of "national" dress in social practice. Against this backdrop, this article discusses the extent to which people in early modern Spain and Spanish America were able to recognize foreigners and ethnoreligious others by the way they dressed. Focusing on two groups, moriscos (Muslims converted to Christianity) within the Spanish realms and foreign Protestants, it demonstrates how a person's outward appearance could reveal, but also conceal, his or her origin. Dress served as an important marker of ethnic and religious difference, but it always remained an ambiguous signifier. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we try to explain the origin of a disagreement; the sort that often arises when the subject is the history of early modern Spanish science. In the decades between 1970 and 1990, while some historians were trying to include Spain in the grand narrative of the rise of modern science, the very historical category of the Scientific Revolution was beginning to be dismantled. It could be said that Spaniards were boarding the flagship of modern science right before it sank. To understand this décalage it would be helpful to recall the role of the history of science during the years after the Franco dictatorship and Spain’s transition to democracy. It was a discipline useful for putting behind us the Black Legend and Spanish exceptionalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this joint paper Laura Muñoz Pérez and Trevor Dadson will examine the possibilities women had when participating in the cultural life at court, showing the relationships of patronage between noblewomen, women writers and other writers, and how this was also a way of promotion. Tied in with this will be an examination of the role of noblewomen in society at large, in particular the fact that they had more power and influence than is usually ascribed to them, especially but not solely if they were widows, when they often ended up running vast estates in the name of their eldest son (if they had one). Also, as ladies at court (‘damas de la reina’) these noblewomen had another form of influence, as they often acted as the eyes and ears of their fathers, brothers and husbands. The largely female court established around the Empress María of Austria in the Descalzas Reales in the early seventeenth century has been the subject of study, but the royal court under Philip III and Philip IV and the powerful women there still requires attention. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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This article presents information regarding the International Conference "From Ireland to Poland: Northern Europe, Spain and the Early Modern World," which took place in Gdansk, Poland, from October 8-9, 2014. The topics discussed at the conference included foreign relations between the Spanish monarchy and Europe, the Catholic Church and culture, and international trade during this period.

The archives of the Spanish council system have been little used by English language historians up until recently. Owing to the importance of Irish emigration to Spanish dominions in the earlymodern period, these archives contain considerable material relating to Irish immigration to the Hispanic Monarchy. In the light of the voluminous nature and complexity of the Castilian conciliar system, the utilisation of these archives represent a challenge for future historians. Nevertheless, the wealth of the material that they contain more than outweighs the necessary time and effort. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article deals with the most active research trends and richest archives available in Spain which deal with the history of Irish migration in Latin America. Their greatest strength lies in the Early Modern Period, where all Latin speaking territories of America were politically linked to the Iberian Peninsula. Spanish archives are rich in administrative material (appointments, trials, contracts, last wills, etc.), well preserved and many of them now available on-line. However, they are weak in private documentation (memoirs, personal letters, etc.). These characteristics have led researchers to focus mostly on the careers and networks of the Irish who achieved top political, military and administrative positions in the Early Modern Latin America. The article concludes prospecting trends for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Golden Age Spain, religious art functioned within the boundaries of a time-honoured corpus of ecclesiastical and rhetorical theory on the image, which attempted to prevent immoderate iconic veneration aided by metaphors taken from the well-known world of portraiture, the most imitative of pictorial genres. Counter-Reformation theologians and preachers also sought to reduce the artwork's impact on irrational sensibility by urging artists to avoid the undesirable effects of awkward or lascivious images. This article will explore how the laws of decorum equipped Post-Tridentine Spanish imagery with aesthetic values meant to reconcile delectare with docere and moveré, and how this finally resulted in a dispute between high culture and popular taste, between an art favored by royal collectors (painting) and another much more generalized as a result of ecclesiastical patronage (sculpture). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the spread and establishment of Catholic religious orders in Spain during the Early Modern era from the 16th to the 19th centuries, with a particular focus on founding of Franciscan convents. The author comments on the prevalence of failures in the establishment of Franciscan convents in the country at the time and describes the possible reasons for these failed initiatives. She also considers the history of the Franciscan religious order dating from the early 16th century in Spain.

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This article is focused on some selected cases of domestic violence in Navarre along the Early Modern years, with special attention to the weapons used to damage (physically or morally) any household member. The sources had been picked up from the Trials Subsection of the General Archive of Navarre. The bibliographical references are, because of the target, very especific, only related to the iberian field, as far as the study does not pretend to look into similar cases in other countries, but to show how easily the violence could be inflicted. The conclusion is that many domestic tools, the body of the attacker included, could be weaponized to cause even mortal damage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the role shoes played in the regulation of sex and gender in early modern Spain. A key component of a sartorial code identified with prostitution and civil status, thechapinesbecame the object of self-fashioning for women, as well as the target of control of their sexuality and subjectivity. “The Balcony of theChapín”analyzes the correspondences of representation of these kinds of shoes in Lope de Vega's playEl perro del hortelano[The Dog in the Manger], the theatrical home of Tristán, Marcela, Diana, and Teodoro, and in a series of regulation texts (edicts, laws, and treatises bymoralistas) that sought to contain the wearing of such shoes. Rather than separating the “free” expression of this footwear in the fantasy of theater from the “contained” prescription of the regulation texts, the goal of this article is to tease out how the wearing of these shoes by women responded to a more complex agency than mere banality (the “vain architecture” of the balcony of thechapinesuttered by Tristán) or transgression. The articulation of desires, such as to be and to look taller or to keep the hem of the dress from getting soiled in the streets, help readers of this early modern period understand that the wearing of these shoes did not respond to a mere desire to transgress, or to fall into any of the abject categories of the wife, the whore or the servant, but to project an image of one's own, not necessarily aligned with one particular, prefabricated identity. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including societal fascination with women's shoes, contribution of shoes to female subjectivity, and female movement and control through platform footwear in Spain in early modern history.

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This article discusses Spanish military history, with a particular focus on the Early Modern Era of the 16th through the 18th centuries. The author comments on the importance of the Archivo General Militar (General Military Archives) located in Sevogia, Spain, and which represent the oldest military archives in the country. She considers the use of such archives and documentary resources, including personnel records, service information, and marriage registers, in historical research and military historiography.

This article discusses the religious architecture of church buildings and convents in the Kingdom of Cordova in Spain during the Early Modern Period. The author gives particular focus to the buildings, monasteries, and cloisters housing nuns and examines the influence of the Cordovan oligarchy as well as the local nobility on their design and construction. She also analyzes the artistic, religious, spatial, and typological aspects of the architecture of these monastery buildings, including their historical significance.

On the basis of a newly constructed dataset, this paper presents long-term series of the price levels, nominal wages, and real wages in Spanish Latin America - more specifically in Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, and Argentina - between ca. 1530 and ca. 1820. It synthesizes the work of scholars who have collected and published data on individual cities and periods, and presents comparable indices of real wages and prices in the colonial period that give a reasonable guide to trends in the long run. We show that nominal wages and prices were on average much higher than in Western Europe or in Asia, a reflection of the low value of silver that must have had consequences for competitiveness of the Latin American economies. Labour scarcity was the second salient feature of Spanish Latin America and resulted in real wages much above subsistence and in some cases (Mexico, Bolivia, Argentina) comparable to levels in Northwestern Europe. For Mexico, this was caused by the dramatic decline of the population after the Conquest. For Bolivia, the driving force was the boom in silver mining in Potosi that created a huge demand for labour. In the case of Argentina, low population density was a pre-colonial feature. Perhaps due to a different pattern of depopulation, the real wages of other regions (Peru, Colombia and Chile) were much lower, and only increased above subsistence during the first half of the 18th century. These results are consistent with independent evidence on biological standards of living and with estimates of GDP per capita at the beginning of the 19th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the conference entitled "Memoria de orígenes: el discurso histórico-eclesiástico en el mundo moderno" ("The Memory of Origins: Clerical-Historical Discourse in the Early Modern World"), which was held in Seville, Spain, from February 23-24, 2012. Topics that were presented include Jesuits in New Spain, the development of the religious order of the Theatines, and religious literature from the 15th to the 16th centuries.

This article discusses the conference titled "I Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores en Historia Moderna" ("First Meeting of Young Researchers in Early Modern History"), which was held in Zaragoza, Spain, from February 9-10, 2012. Topics that were presented include the history of the role of women in society, the political environment in Spain, and the Spanish colonies in Latin America during the Early Modern Period.

Analysis of the social and religious rol placed by a Spanish cathedral during the Early Modern Times, studying the example of St. Cross Church placed in Cadix: place of rituals, sepultures and confraternities, and place of asylum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides an analysis into the practice of selling titles of nobility by the Spanish monarchy to peoples in South America between 1681 and 1821. It provides historical details pertaining to 77 titles that were bought in Latin America during this time period and investigates the economic, social, and political standing of the beneficiaries of such titles. The article concludes with research into the interdependence between the American elite and the Spanish monarchy as it related to the precarious nature of land ownership.

This article presents information regarding the International Congres titled "International Elites and Power Networks: Integration Strategies in Early Modern Europe," held in Pisa, Italy, from December 14-15, 2015. The author details the main topics of the conference, including the political participation of women at the time, Spanish nobility, and Italian elite.