Edward Behrend-Martínez
Biographic Data
| ID | 8504575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward Behrend-Martínez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | Behrend-Martínez |
| SIGNATURE | BEHREND-MARTÍNEZ E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Appalachian State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Cultural History of Marriage in the Age of Enlightenment
Could an institution as sacred and traditional as marriage undergo a revolution? Some people living during the so-called Age of Enlightenment thought so. By marrying for that selfish, personal emotion of love rather than to serve religious or family interests, to serve political demands or the demands of the pocketbook, a few but growing number of people revolutionized matrimony around the end of the eighteenth century. Marriage went from being a…
From body to community
Spain violated
The process of colonial expansion in the sixteenth century fundamentally changed Spanish culture. Along with race, religion, ethnicity, status and honour, definitions of proper gendered and sexual behaviour changed as well. This article argues that Spanish communities and institutions came to define foreign men as examples of a subordinate and dangerous masculinity. The threat that foreign male sexuality posed to Spanish women and thus Spanish pa…
Prostituidas por el texto
Enriqueta Zafra. Prostituidas por el texto: Discurso prostibulario en la picaresca femenina. Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures 46. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2008. 233 pp. index. bibl. $43.95. ISBN: 978–1–55753–527–6. - Volume 63 Issue 1
Juan de Mariana and Early Modern Spanish Political Thought
Sins of the Flesh
Female Sexual Potency in a Spanish Church Court, 1673–1735
Between 1650 and 1750, the Northern Spanish bishopric of Calahorra and La Calzada adjudicated eight suits against allegedly impotent wives and one case against a castrated woman.1 These suits were marital, not criminal, and usually entailed a husband accusing his wife of being impotent. They are particularly valuable for the historian of sex and gender because these cases occurred at the local level, among rural Spaniards, and in an ordinary bish…
In the Shadow of the Virgin
In the Shadow of the Virgin
Spain violated
The process of colonial expansion in the sixteenth century fundamentally changed Spanish culture. Along with race, religion, ethnicity, status and honour, definitions of proper gendered and sexual behaviour changed as well. This article argues that Spanish communities and institutions came to define foreign men as examples of a subordinate and dangerous masculinity. The threat that foreign male sexuality posed to Spanish women and thus Spanish pa…
In the Shadow of the Virgin
Female Sexual Potency in a Spanish Church Court, 1673–1735
Between 1650 and 1750, the Northern Spanish bishopric of Calahorra and La Calzada adjudicated eight suits against allegedly impotent wives and one case against a castrated woman.1 These suits were marital, not criminal, and usually entailed a husband accusing his wife of being impotent. They are particularly valuable for the historian of sex and gender because these cases occurred at the local level, among rural Spaniards, and in an ordinary bish…
Sins of the Flesh
Juan de Mariana and Early Modern Spanish Political Thought
Prostituidas por el texto
Enriqueta Zafra. Prostituidas por el texto: Discurso prostibulario en la picaresca femenina. Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures 46. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2008. 233 pp. index. bibl. $43.95. ISBN: 978–1–55753–527–6. - Volume 63 Issue 1
Spain violated
The process of colonial expansion in the sixteenth century fundamentally changed Spanish culture. Along with race, religion, ethnicity, status and honour, definitions of proper gendered and sexual behaviour changed as well. This article argues that Spanish communities and institutions came to define foreign men as examples of a subordinate and dangerous masculinity. The threat that foreign male sexuality posed to Spanish women and thus Spanish pa…
From body to community
A Cultural History of Marriage in the Age of Enlightenment
Could an institution as sacred and traditional as marriage undergo a revolution? Some people living during the so-called Age of Enlightenment thought so. By marrying for that selfish, personal emotion of love rather than to serve religious or family interests, to serve political demands or the demands of the pocketbook, a few but growing number of people revolutionized matrimony around the end of the eighteenth century. Marriage went from being a…
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