Núria Silleras-Fernández is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Colorado–Boulder. She is the author of Power, Piety, and Patronage in Late Medieval Queenship: Maria de Luna and coeditor of In and Of the Mediterranean: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Studies.

Convincingly demonstrates the lasting influence of Eiximenis's models of womanly virtue and queenship.... Seamlessly unites literary and historical analysis, and the result is illuminating and eminently readable.(RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY) Besides its perfect contextualization, his- torical detail, historiographical precision, and general knowledge about the world surrounding Eiximenis across the Crown of Aragon (which occupies most of the first part of the book, "Genesis"), the author puts the emphasis in the processes whereby those powerful women appropri- ate the work, making it their own.... This is a great book.(Project Muse)

• Introduction: Eiximenis, His Patronesses, and Female Virtue in Late Medieval and Early Modern IberiaPart I. Genesis1. A Return to Piety: Eiximenis and the Culture of the Late Medieval Catalan Court (The Crown of Aragon, 1327–1409)2. Noble Inspiration: Sanxa Ximenis d'Arenós and the Book of Women (Valencia, c. 1380–96)3. Fit for a Queen: The Scala Dei, Franciscan Queenship, and Maria de Luna (Barcelona, c. 1396–1410)Part II. Afterlife4. Found in Translation: Isabel the Catholic Reads Eiximenis (Castile, c. 1490–1516)5. Eiximenis on the Atlantic: The Chariot of Ladies and Catalina of Habsburg (Portugal, c. 1525–78)Conclusion: Feminine Virtue, Female Agency, and the Legacy of EiximenisWorks CitedIndex

Núria Silleras-Fernández is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Colorado–Boulder. She is the author of Power, Piety, and Patronage in Late Medieval Queenship: Maria de Luna and coeditor of In and Of the Mediterranean: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Studies.

Convincingly demonstrates the lasting influence of Eiximenis's models of womanly virtue and queenship.... Seamlessly unites literary and historical analysis, and the result is illuminating and eminently readable.(RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY) Besides its perfect contextualization, his- torical detail, historiographical precision, and general knowledge about the world surrounding Eiximenis across the Crown of Aragon (which occupies most of the first part of the book, "Genesis"), the author puts the emphasis in the processes whereby those powerful women appropri- ate the work, making it their own.... This is a great book.(Project Muse)

• Introduction: Eiximenis, His Patronesses, and Female Virtue in Late Medieval and Early Modern IberiaPart I. Genesis1. A Return to Piety: Eiximenis and the Culture of the Late Medieval Catalan Court (The Crown of Aragon, 1327–1409)2. Noble Inspiration: Sanxa Ximenis d'Arenós and the Book of Women (Valencia, c. 1380–96)3. Fit for a Queen: The Scala Dei, Franciscan Queenship, and Maria de Luna (Barcelona, c. 1396–1410)Part II. Afterlife4. Found in Translation: Isabel the Catholic Reads Eiximenis (Castile, c. 1490–1516)5. Eiximenis on the Atlantic: The Chariot of Ladies and Catalina of Habsburg (Portugal, c. 1525–78)Conclusion: Feminine Virtue, Female Agency, and the Legacy of EiximenisWorks CitedIndex

Núria Silleras-Fernández is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Colorado–Boulder. She is the author of Power, Piety, and Patronage in Late Medieval Queenship: Maria de Luna and coeditor of In and Of the Mediterranean: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Studies.

Convincingly demonstrates the lasting influence of Eiximenis's models of womanly virtue and queenship.... Seamlessly unites literary and historical analysis, and the result is illuminating and eminently readable.(RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY) Besides its perfect contextualization, his- torical detail, historiographical precision, and general knowledge about the world surrounding Eiximenis across the Crown of Aragon (which occupies most of the first part of the book, "Genesis"), the author puts the emphasis in the processes whereby those powerful women appropri- ate the work, making it their own.... This is a great book.(Project Muse)

• Introduction: Eiximenis, His Patronesses, and Female Virtue in Late Medieval and Early Modern IberiaPart I. Genesis1. A Return to Piety: Eiximenis and the Culture of the Late Medieval Catalan Court (The Crown of Aragon, 1327–1409)2. Noble Inspiration: Sanxa Ximenis d'Arenós and the Book of Women (Valencia, c. 1380–96)3. Fit for a Queen: The Scala Dei, Franciscan Queenship, and Maria de Luna (Barcelona, c. 1396–1410)Part II. Afterlife4. Found in Translation: Isabel the Catholic Reads Eiximenis (Castile, c. 1490–1516)5. Eiximenis on the Atlantic: The Chariot of Ladies and Catalina of Habsburg (Portugal, c. 1525–78)Conclusion: Feminine Virtue, Female Agency, and the Legacy of EiximenisWorks CitedIndex