Description: By incorporating women into informal political networks, this work breaks new ground in the study of early modern European politics.
Brief description: Magdalena Sánchez is an associate professor of history at Gettysburg College.
Review Quotes: Sánchez has provided us with an illuminating study of the place of women in the court politics of Philip III's reign. Her fresh readings of how these women exercised their considerable political power should prompt historians of early-modern Spain to re-examine their understanding both of early-modern Spanish women and the court of Philip III.
--Elizabeth Lehfeldt, Bulletin of the Society of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies