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2022-01-01
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El análisis histórico de la viudedad femenina en la Edad Moderna es ambiguo. La literatura moralista miraba a las viudas con recelo, frente a ello la historiografía reciente ha interpretado ese estado como una etapa favorable a las mujeres. Este ensayo se pregunta si la pérdida del esposo resultó ser una ventaja o una debilidad más allá de la construcción identitaria de este colectivo. Analizaremos diversos ejemplos de aristócratas viudas de la familia Mendoza que nos muestran su destacado papel en la promoción de arquitecturas palaciegas y panteones familiares. Arquitecturas que son respuesta a las exigencias de su rango y al ejercicio de gobierno y autoridad durante las minorías de sus hijos herederos varones. Pero que cuando estos hijos llegan a la edad adulta se convierten en espacios de intensa conflictividad al volverse contra ellas los intereses de estos primogénitos.
The historical analysis of female widowhood in Early Modern Spain is ambiguous. Although moralistic literature looked at widows with suspicion, historiography, on the contrary, has interpreted this state as a stage favourable to women. This essay asks whether the loss of the husband turned out to be an advantage or a weakness beyond the construction of identity of this social group. The analysis concerns various cases of widowed aristocrats of the Mendoza family that show us their outstanding role in promoting palatial architecture and family pantheons. These architectures responded to the demands of their rank and to the exercise of government and authority during the childhood years of their children, male heirs. When these children reached adulthood, such architectures sometimes became spaces of intense conflict as the interests of these first-born children turned against them.
The historical analysis of female widowhood in Early Modern Spain is ambiguous. Although moralistic literature looked at widows with suspicion, historiography, on the contrary, has interpreted this state as a stage favourable to women. This essay asks whether the loss of the husband turned out to be an advantage or a weakness beyond the construction of identity of this social group. The analysis concerns various cases of widowed aristocrats of the Mendoza family that show us their outstanding role in promoting palatial architecture and family pantheons. These architectures responded to the demands of their rank and to the exercise of government and authority during the childhood years of their children, male heirs. When these children reached adulthood, such architectures sometimes became spaces of intense conflict as the interests of these first-born children turned against them.
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Viudas, Mendoza, condesa de Haro, condesa de Mélito, patronazgo femenino, Widows, Mendoza, Countess of Haro, Countess of Mélito, female patronage
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Alegre Carvajal, Esther (2022). «El Controvertido poder de las aristócratas viudas en el siglo XVI. Patronazgo Arquitectónico y Conflictividad Familiar», en Vélez Chaurri J. J. Mujer, Promoción Artística e Imagen Del Poder en los siglos del Renacimiento y el Barroco. Vitoria: UPV
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Facultad de Geografía e Historia
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Historia del Arte