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Juana La Beltraneja, Dynastic Fears, and Threats of Marriage (1475–1506)

Article | Contributor(s): Susannah Humble Ferreira

This article focuses on the life of Juana, the Excelente Senhora (excellent lady), between 1479 and 1506. Juana, widely known as La Beltraneja, was recognized by King Enrique IV of Castile (1454–74) as his legitimate daughter and successor despite claims that she had been conceived in an...

Palace Networks at the Court of Carlos II: Maria Anna of Palatinate-Neuburg’s Confessor, Gabriel Pontifeser, and the Queen’s German Chamber (1690–1700)

Article | Contributor(s): Valentina Marguerite Kozák

The arrival in Madrid in 1690 of the future queen consort, Maria Anna of Palatinate-Neuburg (1667–1740), second wife of the Spanish king Carlos II (1661–1700), also brought about the establishment of an unofficial palace faction known as the German Chamber. Since the members of this faction were...

Surviving Dynastic Change: The High Nobility during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–15)

Article | Contributor(s): José Antonio López Anguita

The accession of the House of Bourbon to the Spanish throne after the death of the last Habsburg king, Carlos II, in 1700 brought important changes for the court high nobility. Historians have seen Philip V’s reign as the beginning of the titled nobility’s withdrawal from the front line of...

Patronage and Power: The Vicereines at the Court of Naples in the Reign of Philip III of Spain

Article | Contributor(s): Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez

Recently, several studies have focused on the figure of the viceroy in the Spanish Monarchy, especially in the Kingdom of Naples. However, far less attention has been paid to the role of the vicereines of Naples. The goal of my study is to investigate and clarify the significant roles held by...

Claiming Nobility in the Monarquía Hispánica: The Search for Status by Inca, Aztec, and Nasrid Descendants at the Habsburg Court

Article | Contributor(s): Karoline P. Cook

By the early seventeenth century, petitioners at the royal court in Madrid who claimed descent from the Inca rulers of Peru, the Aztec rulers of Mexico, and the Nasrid emirs of Granada found ways to acquire noble status and secure rights to their ancestral lands in the form of entailed estates....

“Tutti gli occhi del mondo”: Court Networks between Turin and Madrid, 1640–1700

Article | Contributor(s): Blythe Alice Raviola

Although the court of Turin’s role in the new balance of power in Europe during the War of the Spanish Succession is well known, far less is known about the strategic function of its collateral courts, such as the court of the princes of Savoy-Carignano. Based on the correspondence of the Savoy...

Introduction: Digital Resources for Studying the Spanish Renaissance

Article | Contributor(s): Hilaire Kallendorf

Aram, Bethany, principal investigator. An ARTery of Empire: Conquest, Commerce, Crisis, Culture and the Panamanian Junction (1513–1671). Other.

Article | Contributor(s): Evan Haefeli

Castellanos Garijo, María de los Llanos, president of the National Patrimony of Spain, and José Luis Rodríguez Gómez, librarian for the online database. Bibliographical Database of the Collection of the National Patrimony of Spain (Ibis).

Article | Contributor(s): Enrique Fernández

Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte – Gobierno de España (Ministry of Culture and Sport – Government of Spain). Portal de Archivos Españoles (PARES; Portal to the Spanish Archives). Other.

Article | Contributor(s): Ted L. L. Bergman

Gaylord, Mary Malcolm, and Fall 2015 participants in the Folger Institute seminar “Cervantes’ Fictions and the Early Modern Historical Imagination,” project creators. Bibliography of Cervantes Titles and Materials at the Folger. Other.

Article | Contributor(s): Kathryn Vomero Santos

Layson, Hana, and Glen Carman, project dirs. The World of Don Quixote: Digital Collections for the Classroom (Newberry Library). Other.

Article | Contributor(s): Damián Robles