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Cinzia Recca, Francisco Precioso Izquierdo - Elite Women in Early Modern Catholic Europe, Inbunden

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Elite Women in Early Modern Catholic Europe

Av Cinzia Recca, Francisco Precioso Izquierdo

Del i serien New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Culture

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Elite Women in Early Modern Catholic Europe offers a new look at early modern Catholic Europe through the lens of the diverse experiences of elite women, using a historiographical approach to analyze women’s roles through changing political, social, and cultural contexts.Through novel practices and broad social networks, distinguished women assumed prominent roles, from queens and princesses, to aristocrats and great nobles, to women of faith and religion. As the Counter-Reformation and the transition toward Enlightenment ideology swept France, Spain, and Italy, literacy and education became more accessible to upper-class women, who began to create new traditions in place of the old ways that were falling short. The case studies in this volume, ranging from the seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries, uncover the ways in which women were developing leadership skills and preserving status through participation in historical processes that affected real estate, the Church, and the social and family organization across Catholic Europe.This book is an ideal resource for students and researchers studying early modern women and Catholic Europe.
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Cinzia Recca is reader in Early Modern History in the Department of Education at the University of Catania, Italy. Her main field of research includes the European Enlightenment, especially court studies and women's roles. In recent years, she has initiated a demanding research activity focused on the figure of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples through the analysis of unpublished sources (diary and correspondence). She is the author of The Diary of Maria Carolina of Naples, 1781–1785: New evidence of Queenship at Court (2017).Francisco Precioso Izquierdo is reader in Modern History at the University of Murcia, Spain. His field of research integrates the analysis of the noble elites of the Hispanic world at the end of the seventeenth century from a family, political, and cultural perspective. In recent years, his research has been oriented toward the study of the idea of nobility in Spanish society in the eighteenth century. He is the author of Melchor Macanaz. La derrota de un “héroe”. Poder político y movilidad familiar en la España Moderna (2017).

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This collection comprises 10 chapters by scholars outside the Anglophone world, focusing on the actions of elite women in the transformation and preservation of social structures in Catholic Western Europe, including Spain, Italy, and France, from the mid-16th to the mid-19th century. Princesses, queens and future queens, wealthy aristocrats, and other high-ranking women arranged matrimonial alliances, created new lineages and then wrote about them, established charitable associations that also funded luxuries for themselves, established familial and friendship networks that stretched across political boundaries, wrote wills that determined the destiny of family assets and letters that sought to determine this, and trained their daughters and other younger family members to continue in their footsteps. These were women born into power and wealth, so it is unsurprising that, as the editors note, “women’s action in the social, political, or religious world is usually aimed at maintaining the status quo” (p. 7). Still, the range of their actions is surprising, particularly for those who might still think of Catholic Europe as offering fewer opportunities for women’s agency, influence, and power than Protestant areas. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty.M. E. Wiesner-Hanks, emerita, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee CHOICE November 2025 Vol. 63 No. 3.

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