The new parameters of a global world in the early modern period gave rise to an expansion of movement that facilitated spatial and social mobility for women of different social ranks. Through their reexamination of archival documents and travel narratives, these essays investigate the opportunities for female mobility across the Spanish Empire, narrating the journeys of women who assumed new and unpredictable roles in distant environments. Some risked transoceanic journeys to hold positions of colonial power, while nuns traveled to found convents. Portuguese and Genoese women financiers and merchants traversed the Mediterranean to command enterprises in different cities. Breaking with tradition, the noblewomen considered in these essays exercised political agency as ambassadresses and diplomatic spies at various European courts. Still other women fled across borders from oppressive marriages or cross-dressed as soldiers to perform adventurous feats in support of imperial causes. Their frequently distorted histories, authored by men, have been revised and rectified by the authors of this volume.
Introduction: Early Modern Women’s Mobility
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Inés Muñoz de Ribera: The Making of an Encomendera in Sixteenth-Century Peru
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Founding a Convent in the Philippines: Discursive Keys to Travel Narratives of Early Modern Female Religious Communities
págs. 79-99
Cassandra Grimaldo’s Voyage of No Return: A Genoese Businesswoman in Habsburg Spain
págs. 101-120
Trade, Credit, and Marriage: The Mobility of Portuguese Conversa Merchants and Financiers
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Hortense Mancini: A Life on the Run
págs. 161-185
Seeking Support from the Spanish Monarchy: The Manly Flight of Mary Stuart O’Donnell, Countess of Tyrconnell
págs. 187-210
Marie de Rohan, Duchess of Chevreuse: Schemer, Spy, and Wartime Fugitive at the European Courts
págs. 211-230
Mobilizing Female Relatives: The Countess of Berlepsch’s Strategies at the Habsburg Courts
págs. 231-252
A Cosmopolitan Ambassadress on the Road: Anna Colonna, Marquise of Los Balbases
págs. 253-274
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