Grace E Coolidge
Biographic Data
| ID | 1081957 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Grace E Coolidge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Grace E |
| FAMILY NAME | Coolidge |
| SIGNATURE | COOLIDGE G E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Grand Valley State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-5898-2326 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Economies of Death
Plague, inflation and bankruptcy struck Toledo, Spain, in the seventeenth century. This article uses a sample of eighty wills written in Toledo to analyse how people coped. I argue that resilience in Toledo was gendered and relied heavily on the economic activity and agency of women. Women's ability to manage or provide for family, household and community, their development of affective/economic networks within and beyond the household and their …
Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature
Blood, Land, and Power
Journal Article Blood, Land, and Power: The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Nobility and Lineages in the Early Modern Period, by Manuel Perez-Garcia Get access Blood, Land, and Power: The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Nobility and Lineages in the Early Modern Period, by Manuel Perez-Garcia (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021; pp. 352. £65). Grace E Coolidge Grace E Coolidge Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, USA [email protected] Sea…
At the First Table
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Formation of the Child in Early Modern Spain
Investing in the Lineage
In 1553, the fifth Duke and Duchess of Infantado celebrated their marriage. Over the next decade, they watched four sons and four daughters die as small children, and then arranged their eldest surviving daughter Ana’s marriages, first to her uncle, then to her first cousin. When three of Ana’s children (including her only son) died young, Ana arranged her eldest surviving daughter’s marriage and prayed for a grandson. It was not until 1614 that …
Michael J. Crawford. The Fight for Status and Privilege in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile, 1465–1598
Journal Article Michael J. Crawford. The Fight for Status and Privilege in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile, 1465–1598. Get access Michael J. Crawford. The Fight for Status and Privilege in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile, 1465–1598. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014. Pp. x, 240. $64.95. Grace E. Coolidge Grace E. Coolidge Grand Valley State University [email protected] Search for other works by this author o…
Janna Bianchini. The Queen's Hand
Janna Bianchini uses the life and career of Queen Berenguela of Castile (1180–1246) to study the intricate ways in which power, authority, and gender functioned in medieval Iberia. Bianchini argues that Berenguela's authority was based on her lordship over crucial properties along the border between León and Castile, her use of those properties to establish patronage relationships with nobles and prelates, and her hereditary rights to the throne …
Jesus CRUZ. The Rise of Middle-Class Culture in Nineteenth-Century Spain
Family and Empire
Yuen-Gen Liang. Family and Empire: The Fernández de Córdoba and the Spanish Realm. Haney Foundation Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. x + 280 pp. $69.95. ISBN: 978–0–8122–4340–6. - Volume 65 Issue 2
Noble Strategies
Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain
A Vile and Abject Woman
Mistresses of Spanish noblemen between 1360 and 1600 occupied a place within the Spanish patriarchy where concerns about gender and class intersected, revealing contradictions between the ideals of honor, the moral injunctions of Catholic doctrine, and the practical needs of noble families. Mistresses occupied a flexible space in the Spanish patriarchy where a woman's social status, her ability to produce male heirs, and her ability to use the le…
"Neither Dumb, Deaf, nor Destitute of Understanding"
Over 80 percent of Spanish noblemen in the period between 1350 and 1750 chose their wives to be the guardians of their children and property, so women headed many of the most powerful noble families in Spain at regular intervals. To Spanish noblemen, the preservation of family, power, and lineage was more important than the prescriptive gender roles of their time, and they expected and trained their female relatives to take an active part in the …
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"Neither Dumb, Deaf, nor Destitute of Understanding"
Over 80 percent of Spanish noblemen in the period between 1350 and 1750 chose their wives to be the guardians of their children and property, so women headed many of the most powerful noble families in Spain at regular intervals. To Spanish noblemen, the preservation of family, power, and lineage was more important than the prescriptive gender roles of their time, and they expected and trained their female relatives to take an active part in the …
A Vile and Abject Woman
Mistresses of Spanish noblemen between 1360 and 1600 occupied a place within the Spanish patriarchy where concerns about gender and class intersected, revealing contradictions between the ideals of honor, the moral injunctions of Catholic doctrine, and the practical needs of noble families. Mistresses occupied a flexible space in the Spanish patriarchy where a woman's social status, her ability to produce male heirs, and her ability to use the le…
Noble Strategies
Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain
Family and Empire
Yuen-Gen Liang. Family and Empire: The Fernández de Córdoba and the Spanish Realm. Haney Foundation Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. x + 280 pp. $69.95. ISBN: 978–0–8122–4340–6. - Volume 65 Issue 2
Janna Bianchini. The Queen's Hand
Janna Bianchini uses the life and career of Queen Berenguela of Castile (1180–1246) to study the intricate ways in which power, authority, and gender functioned in medieval Iberia. Bianchini argues that Berenguela's authority was based on her lordship over crucial properties along the border between León and Castile, her use of those properties to establish patronage relationships with nobles and prelates, and her hereditary rights to the throne …
Jesus CRUZ. The Rise of Middle-Class Culture in Nineteenth-Century Spain
Michael J. Crawford. The Fight for Status and Privilege in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile, 1465–1598
Journal Article Michael J. Crawford. The Fight for Status and Privilege in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile, 1465–1598. Get access Michael J. Crawford. The Fight for Status and Privilege in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile, 1465–1598. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014. Pp. x, 240. $64.95. Grace E. Coolidge Grace E. Coolidge Grand Valley State University [email protected] Search for other works by this author o…
Formation of the Child in Early Modern Spain
Investing in the Lineage
In 1553, the fifth Duke and Duchess of Infantado celebrated their marriage. Over the next decade, they watched four sons and four daughters die as small children, and then arranged their eldest surviving daughter Ana’s marriages, first to her uncle, then to her first cousin. When three of Ana’s children (including her only son) died young, Ana arranged her eldest surviving daughter’s marriage and prayed for a grandson. It was not until 1614 that …
At the First Table
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Blood, Land, and Power
Journal Article Blood, Land, and Power: The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Nobility and Lineages in the Early Modern Period, by Manuel Perez-Garcia Get access Blood, Land, and Power: The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Nobility and Lineages in the Early Modern Period, by Manuel Perez-Garcia (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021; pp. 352. £65). Grace E Coolidge Grace E Coolidge Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, USA [email protected] Sea…
Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature
Economies of Death
Plague, inflation and bankruptcy struck Toledo, Spain, in the seventeenth century. This article uses a sample of eighty wills written in Toledo to analyse how people coped. I argue that resilience in Toledo was gendered and relied heavily on the economic activity and agency of women. Women's ability to manage or provide for family, household and community, their development of affective/economic networks within and beyond the household and their …
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