Chariots of Ladies : : Francesc Eiximenis and the Court Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Iberia / / Núria Silleras-Fernández.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Silleras-Fernández, Núria,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 6 halftones, 1 geneaological tree, 1 map

In Chariots of Ladies, Núria Silleras-Fernández traces the development of devotion and female piety among the Iberian aristocracy from the late Middle Ages into the Golden Age, and from Catalonia to the rest of Iberia and Europe via the rise of the Franciscan Observant movement. A program of piety and morality devised by Francesc Eiximenis, a Franciscan theologian, royal counselor, and writer in Catalonia in the 1390s, came to characterize the feminine ideal in the highest circles of the Iberian aristocracy in the era of the Empire. As Eiximenis's work was adapted and translated into Castilian over the century and a half that followed, it became a model of devotion and conduct for queens and princesses, including Isabel the Catholic and her descendants, who ruled over Portugal and the Spanish Empire of the Hapsburgs.Silleras-Fernández uses archival documentation, letters, manuscripts, incunabula, and a wide range of published material to clarify how Eiximenis's ideas on gender and devotion were read by Countess Sanxa Ximenis d'Arenós and Queen Maria de Luna of Aragon and how they were then changed by his adaptors and translators in Castile for new readers (including Isabel the Catholic and Juana the Mad), and in sixteenth-century Portugal for new patronesses (Juana's daughter, Catalina of Habsburg, and Catalina's daughter, Maria Manuela, first wife of Philip II). Chariots of Ladies casts light on a neglected dimension of encounter and exchange in Iberia from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Style, Usage, and Translations -- Introduction: Eiximenis, His Patronesses, and Female Virtue in Late Medieval and Early Modern Iberia -- Part I. Genesis -- 1. 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. Afterlife -- 4. 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 Eiximenis -- Works Cited -- Index