"Women in the Lusophone World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period"

Editors: Darlene Abreu-Ferreira (Guest Editor) (University of Winnipeg) and Ivana Elbl (Trent University)

Darlene Abreu-Ferreira and Ivana Elbl
"Women in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Lusophone World: An Introduction." Pp. xix-xxv



Female Characters in Late Medieval Chronicles

Amélia P. Hutchinson
The University of Georgia
“Punctuating the Narrative: The Structural Function of
Female Characters in Fernão Lopes’ and Gomes Eanes
de Zurara’s Chronicles.” Pp. 1-14

José Valente
Independent Scholar
“Inventing a Queen: Leonor Teles and the Revolution
of 1383-1385—An Interpretive Essay.” Pp. 15-26

Women and Power in the Late Middle Ages

Jutta Sperling
Hampshire College
“Women’s Property Rights in Portugal under Dom João I (1385-1433): A Comparison with Renaissance Italy.” Pp. 27-60

Ivana Elbl
Trent University
“Status and Agency: Royal Grants to Portuguese Noblewomen, 1438-1481.” Pp. 61-114-

Susannah Humble Ferreira
University of Guelph
“Agents of Political Change: Noblewomen in Portugal at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century.” Pp. 115-134

Habsburg Queens and Portugal

Félix Labrador Arroyo
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
“La Emperatriz Isabel de Portugal, mujer de Carlos V: Casa Real y facciones cortesanas (1526-1539).” Pp. 135-171

Annemarie Jordan Gschwend
“Catherine of Austria: A Portuguese Queen in the Shadow of the Habsburg Court?” Pp. 173-194

Almudena Pérez de Tudela
El Escorial, Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid
“Ana de Austria (1549-1580) y su colección artística.
Una aproximación.” Pp. 195-228

Women and the Economy

Amândio Jorge Morais Barros
Instituto de História Moderna, Universidade de Porto
“Mulheres e comércio. Linhas de intervenção da mulher portuense no negócio durante o século XVI." Pp. 229-268

Amélia Polónia
Faculdade de Artes, Universidade de Porto
“Women’s Contributions to Family, Economy and Social Range of Maritime Communities in Sixteenth-Century Portugal.” Pp. 269-285

Darlene Abreu-Ferreira
University of Winnipeg
“Women’s Property, Women’s Lives: A Look at Early Modern Portugal.” Pp. 287-303

Attitudes Towards Women at Home, Overseas and Abroad

Pedro Miguel Reboredo Marques
“'Naõ saõ femeas, ou machos as almas com distinçaõ': Estratégias de valorização da mulher em papéis volantes setecentistas." Pp. 305-329

Marcia Eliane Alves de Souza e Mello
Universidade Federal do Amazonas
“Desvendando outras Franciscas: Mulheres cativas e as
ações de liberdade na Amazônia colonial portuguesa.” Pp. 331-346

Jessica V. Roitman
Leiden University
“Marriage, Migration, and Money: The Santa Companhia de dotar órphãs e donzelas pobres in the Portuguese Sephardic Diaspora.” Pp. 347-367


Women and Religion

Inês Amorim, Elisabete de Jesus, Célia Rego
Instituto de História Moderna, Universidade de Porto
“Mulher e religião na época moderna. A Ordem Terceira de S. Francisco, um modelo de sociabilidade religiosa.” Pp. 369-399

David Higgs
University of Toronto
“A Beata and Biography: Leonarda Rosa and Her Detractors, 1788-1794.” Pp. 401-409

Haruko Nawata Ward
Columbia Theological Seminary
“The Christian 'Nuns' of Early Modern Japan.” Pp. 411-448


Addition to Vol. 13, Nos. 1-2: "The Estado Novo: International Relations"

Sonny B. Davis
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
“Salazar, Timor, and Portuguese Neutrality in World
War II.” Pp. 449-476

Antonio Muñoz Sánchez
Instituto Universitario Europeo—Florence (Italy)
“La Socialdemocracia alemana y el Estado Novo
(1961-1974).” Pp. 477-503


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