Table of Contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction:
Bargaining Chips: Strategic Marriages and Cultural Circulation in Early Modern Europe
Joan-Lluís Palos
PART I: PRINCESSES ACROSS BORDERS
1 Catalina Micaela (1567–97), Duchess of Savoy
"She Grows Careless": The Infanta Catalina and Spanish Etiquette at the Court of Savoy
Magdalena S. Sánchez
2 María Teresa (1638–83), Queen of France
The Queen of France and the Capital of Cultural Heritage
Mark de Vitis
3 Elisabetta Farnese (1692–1766), Queen of Spain
A Queen between Three Worlds: Italy, Spain, and France
María de los Ángeles Pérez Samper
PART II: MALE CONSORTS
4 Philip the Handsome (1478–1506), Duke of Burgundy and King of Castile
Voyages from Burgundy to Castile: Cultural Conflict and Dynastic Transitions, 1502–06
Bethany Aram
5 Philip II (1527–98), King of Spain and England
"Great Faith is Necessary to Drink from this Chalice": Philip II in the Court of Mary Tudor, 1554–58
Anna Santamaría López
6 João Soares de Alarcão (d. 1546) and His Family
The Marriage of João de Alarcão and Margarida Soares and the Creation of a Transnational Portuguese-Spanish Nobility
Mafalda Soares da Cunha
PART III: Women’s Contribution to a Cosmopolitan Nobility
7 Eleonora Álvarez de Toledo (1522–62)
"A Spanish Barbarian and an Enemy of Her Husband’s Homeland": The Duchess of Florence and Her Spanish Entourage
Joan-Lluís Palos
8 Maria Mancini (1639–1715)
Paintings, Fans, and Scented Gloves: A Witness to Cultural Exchanges at the Courts in Paris, Rome, and Madrid
Leticia de Frutos
9 Johanna Theresia Lamberg (1639–1716)
The Countess of Harrach and the Cultivation of the Body between Madrid and Vienna
Laura Oliván Santaliestra
Epilogue:
Aristocratic Women across Borders, Cultural Transfers, and Something More. Why Should We Care?
Bartolomé Yun Casalilla
Index