Spanish Women in the Golden Age
Subtitle: Images and Realities (Contributions in Women's Studies)
Contributors: Magdalena S. Sanchez (Editor); Alain Saint-Saens (Editor)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: February 28, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780313294815
Subjects: Cultural studies; Literary studies: general; Women's studies; Spain And Portugal - History; Women - Modern History; History: World; Sociology; Spain; Europe - General; Women's Studies - General; History / Europe / General; History; Sex role; Social conditions; To 1800; Women
First sentence: In 1492, the community of Sancti Spiritus of Salamanca wrote to the Master of the Order of Santiago, Alonso de Cárdenas, telling him that they were "religious women, with whom no man had to be with, nor to have power over, nor to rule, nor to govern, especially because the people of this house were so honest, wise and prudent to rule the government of the monastery."