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Based on clerical ideals of female comportment and Golden Age playwrights’ fixation on questions of honor, modern scholarship, whether historical or literary, has viewed women as subjects and objects of patriarchal control. This study analyzes tensions and contradictions produced by the interplay of patriarchal norms and the realities of widows’ daily lives to demonstrate that in Castile patriarchy did not exist as a monolithic force, which rigidly enforced an ideology of female incapacity. The extensive analysis of archival documents shows widows actively engaged in their families and communities, confounding images of their reclusion and silence. Widows’ autonomy and authority were desirable attributes that did not collide with the demands of a society that recognized the contingent nature of patriarchal norms.

History of Spain --- anno 1500-1599 --- Social role --- Widowhood --- Widows in literature --- Widows --- Role, Social --- Social psychology --- Social status --- Marital status --- Women --- Life cycle, Human --- History --- History. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Social conditions --- Spain --- Social life and customs --- Role (Sociology)

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Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Social security law --- Finances --- Family --- Labour market --- Widows --- Care --- Divorce --- Belgium

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The courtship and remarriage of a rich widow was a popular motif in early modern comic theatre. Jennifer Panek brings together a wide variety of texts, from ballads and jest-books to sermons and court records, to examine the staple widow of comedy in her cultural context and to examine early modern attitudes to remarriage. She persuasively challenges the critical tendency to see the stereotype of the lusty widow as a tactic to dissuade women from second marriages, arguing instead that it was deployed to enable her suitors to regain their masculinity, under threat from the dominant, wealthier widow. The theatre, as demonstrated by Middleton, Dekker, Beaumont and Fletcher and others, was the prime purveyor of a fantasy in which a young man's sexual mastery of a widow allowed him to seize the economic opportunity she offered.

English drama --- Widows in literature. --- English drama (Comedy) --- Courtship in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Drama --- Thematology --- English literature --- anno 1600-1699 --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature

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The volume opens with an introductory chapter by the Editors which looks generally at the conditions and constructions of widowhood in this period. This is followed by a range of essays which illuminate different dimensions of widowhood across Europe - in England, Italy, France, Germany and Spain. A particular attraction of the volume is the attention given to widowers, and the comparisons made between the male and female experience of widowhood. It is an exciting reinterpretation of the subject which will do much to undo the traditional stereotype of the widow. [publisher's description]

History of Europe --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1500-1799 --- Widowers --- ro: ed. --- #VCV monografie 2000 --- Widowhood --- Widows --- History --- Marital status --- Women --- Life cycle, Human --- Men --- History. --- ro: ed --- Widowhood - Europe - History. --- Widows - Europe - History. --- Widowers - Europe - History. --- FEMMES --- VEUVES --- EUROPE --- CONDITIONS SOCIALES --- MOYEN AGE --- HISTOIRE

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Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Age group sociology --- Psychology --- Belgium --- Older people --- Widows --- Social conditions --- 316.346 --- Aged --- -Aged --- -Widows --- -#SBIB:314H320 --- #SBIB:316.8H14 --- #gsdbS --- samenleving --- ouderen --- #C2000 --- 665 Bejaarden --- #KVHB:Gerontologie --- #KVHB:Levensvoldoening; bejaarden --- Gerontologie en geriatrie --- Marital status --- Women --- Aging people --- Elderly people --- Old people --- Older adults --- Older persons --- Senior citizens --- Seniors (Older people) --- Age groups --- Persons --- Gerontocracy --- Gerontology --- Old age --- Demografische stratificatie --- -Case studies --- Case studies --- Bevolkingsstudies: leeftijdsgroepen: ouderen: algemeen --- Welzijns- en sociale problemen: bejaarden --- Gérontologie et gériatrie --- Ontwikkelingspsychologie --- volwassenen en derde leeftijd --- volwassenen en derde leeftijd. --- 316.346 Demografische stratificatie --- #SBIB:314H320 --- Volwassenen en derde leeftijd. --- Personnes âgées --- Older people - Netherlands - Social conditions - Case studies --- Widows - Netherlands - Case studies --- Older people - Psychology - Case studies