«In the Shadow» of Absent Men: Unhappily Married Women in the Hispanic World of the Seventeenth Century

The households with feminine heads have been revealed in recent research as an important social reality in Early Modern Europe. These households, often under direction of a widow, and to a lesser extent, of a spinster or an unhappily married woman, are providing historians with the possibility to ob...

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Main Author: María José DE LA PASCUA SÁNCHEZ
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2016-12-01
Series:Studia Historica: Historia Moderna
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Online Access:https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/Studia_Historica/article/view/15143