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The Politics of Emotion explores the intersection of powerful emotional states―love, melancholy, grief, and madness―with gender and political power on the Iberian Peninsula from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. Using an array of sources―literary texts, medical treatises, and archival documents―Nuria Silleras-Fernandez focuses on three royal women: Isabel of Portugal (1428–1496), queen-consort of Castile; Isabel of Aragon (1470–1498), queen-consort of Portugal; and Juana of Castile (1479–1555), queen of Castile and its empire. Each of these women was perceived by their contemporaries as having gone "mad" as a result of excessive grief, and all three were related to Isabel the Catholic (1451–1504), queen of Castile and a woman lauded in her time as a paragon of reason. Through the lives and experiences of these royal women and the observations, judgments, and machinations of their families, entourages, and circles of writers, chronicles, courtiers, moralists, and physicians in their orbits, Silleras-Fernandez addresses critical questions about how royal women in Iberia were expected to behave, the affective standards to which they were held, and how perceptions about t

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Author

Nuria Silleras-Fernandez;

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501773860

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Gender Studies, Sociology, Social_sciences