Chivalry, Reading, and Women's Culture in Early Modern Spain

Stacey Triplette is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and French at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. Her essays have appeared in Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, and La corónica.

Triplette's focused critique of women's literacy, both of the medieval texts' fictional characters and of women themselves as their readers, not only serves as a means of investigating gender equality and as a corrective to our increasingly partial reading practices, but also proposes a vitally effective method of approaching women's culture.- Anne J. Cruz, Early Modern Women, Fall 2020,Chivalry, Reading, and Women's Culture in Early Modern Spain succeeds not only in examining the female characters in 'Amad's' and 'Don Quijote' but also in cogently and brilliantly bringing Beatriz Bernal and her Cristalián de España to the fore in Spanish Golden Age studies.- J. A. Garrido Ardila, Renaissance Quarterly, Volume LXXIII, No. 1

• Introduction Chapter 1: Women’s Lives and Women’s Literacy in Amadís de Gaula Chapter 2: Women’s Literacy in Beatriz Bernal’s Cristalián de España Chapter 3: The Triumph of Women Readers of Chivalry in Don Quixote Part I Chapter 4: The Defeat of Women Readers of Chivalry in Don Quixote Part II Conclusion, Bibliograph, Notes.