Sex, Gender, and Illegitimacy in the Castilian Noble Family, 1400-1600

Sex, Gender, and Illegitimacy in the Castilian Noble Family, 1400-1600
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 408
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ISBN-10 : 9781496233622
ISBN-13 : 149623362X
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Download or read book Sex, Gender, and Illegitimacy in the Castilian Noble Family, 1400-1600 written by Grace E. Coolidge and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-12 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex, Gender, and Illegitimacy in the Castilian Noble Family, 1400-1600 looks at illegitimacy across the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyzes its implications for gender and family structure in the Spanish nobility, a class whose actions, structure, and power had immense implications for the future of the country and empire. Grace E. Coolidge demonstrates that women and men were able to challenge traditional honor codes, repair damaged reputations, and manipulate ideals of marriage and sexuality to encompass extramarital sexuality and the nearly constant presence of illegitimate children. This flexibility and creativity in their sexual lives enabled members of the nobility to repair, strengthen, and maintain their otherwise fragile concept of dynasty and lineage, using illegitimate children and their mothers to successfully project the noble dynasty into the future--even in an age of rampant infant mortality that contributed to the frequent absence of male heirs. While benefiting the nobility as a whole, the presence of illegitimate children could also be disruptive to the inheritance process, and the entire system privileged noblemen and their aims and goals over the lives of women and children. This book enriches our understanding of the complex households and families of the Spanish nobility, challenging traditional images of a strict patriarchal system by uncovering the hidden lives that made that system function.


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