Lucrecia's Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain
"The prophetic career of Lucrecia is of particular interest as an  example of the ways in which women could exercise indirect political influence  in early modern times."   --Peter Burke, Times Literary Supplement"With this fine book, Richard Kagan has added Lucrecia de Len to that  select list of individuals, like Menocchio, Martin Guerre, Benedetta Carlini,  and Giovanni and Lusanna, who have become part of historians' professional  discourse as protagonists in microhistories. . . . [Kagan] provides an opening  into a Spanish cultural and political environment largely unexplored by  historians. . . . A pleasure to read."  --J. B. Owens, Sixteenth Century Journal