Description: A transnational comparison of women rulers and women's sovereignty throughout Europe
Brief description:
Anne J. Cruz is professor of Spanish and Cooper Fellow at the University of Miami. Her publications range from studies on Spanish Petrarchism, Cervantes, and the comedia to women's writings and the picaresque novel. She is a member of the Bibliografía de Escritoras Españolas (Bieses) Research Team, coeditor of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and editor of the Ashgate series New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies. She has recently been named corresponding member of Spain's Royal Academy of History.
Review Quotes: "Complex and intriguing portraits of female sovereigns. . . . a de-idealized, yet non-misogynistic picture of female sovereignty in the early modern era."--Feminist Formations