Notes
Notes IntroductIon: LegaL texts and gendered contexts 1. Heath Dillard, Daughters of the Reconquest: Women in Castilian Town Society, 1100– 1300 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984). 2. As Judith Bennett has noted, however, coverage of premodern women in Englishlanguage publications has lagged behind that of women in other time periods; see Bennett, History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006), 30–53. 3. See, for example, Allyson M. Poska, Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain: The Peasants of Galicia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006); Marta V. Vicente, Clothing the Spanish Empire: Families and the Calico Trade in the Early Modern Spanish World (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006); and Lisa Vollendorf, The Lives of Women: A New History of Inquisitional Spain (Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 2005). For a foundational English-language treatment of women and gender ideas in early modern Spain, see Mary Elizabeth Perry, Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990). 4. For queens, see Theresa Earenfight, ed., Queenship and Political Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2005); Peggy Liss, Isabel the Queen: Life and Times (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004); and Núria Silleras Fernández, Power, Piety, and Patronage in Late Medieval Queenship: María de Luna (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). For nonaristocratic women, see Rebecca Lynn Winer, Women, Wealth, and Community in Perpignan, c. 1250–1300: Christians, Jews, and Enslaved Muslims in a Medieval Mediterranean Town (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2006). 5. Manlio Bellomo, The Common Legal Past of Europe, 1000–1800, trans. Lydia G. Cochrane (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1995), esp. 58–77. There is some debate as to whether it is appropriate to designate the Corpus iuris civilis as having been “lost” and later “recovered,” but it is only during the eleventh century that Justinianic legal principles begin to be cited frequently in notarial instruments. See Peter Stein, Roman Law in European History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 43–48. 6. Las Siete Partidas, trans. Samuel Parsons Scott, ed. Robert I. Burns, S.J., 7 vols. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000). Historians of medieval Castile have 152 notes to pages 4–7 long noted that the presence of Roman law in the Siete partidas did not necessarily imply that such law was being used. For at least a century after the redaction of the Partidas, Castilian magnates resisted the local fueros being supplanted by the Fuero real or the Partidas, and both royal justice and Roman law penetrated the kingdom very slowly. By the later fourteenth century, however, Roman law (and jurists trained in it) had made significant inroads into Castile, bringing along with them all the contradictions of Roman law’s vision of women. Diana Arauz Mercado, La protección jurídica de la mujer en Castilla y León (siglos XII–XIV) (Valladolid: Junta de Castilla y León, Consejería de Cultura y Turismo 2007), 17; Dillard, Daughters of the Reconquest, 4. 7. Arauz Mercado, La protección jurídica de la mujer, 291–95; see also María Francisca Gámez Montalvo, Régimen jurídico de la mujer en la familia castellana medieval (Granada: Comares, 1998), 13–14. 8. Maria Teresa Guerra Medici, Orientamenti civilistici e canonistici sulla condizione della donna (Naples: Edizioni scientifiche italiane, 1996), 29–45. 9. Thomas Kuehn, “Person and Gender in the Laws,” in Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy, ed. Judith Brown and Robert Davis (London: Longman, 1998), 91–93. 10. Maria Teresa Guerra Medici, L’aria di città: donne e diritti nella città medievale (Naples: Edizioni scientifiche italiane, 1986), 32–35. 11. Kathryn Reyerson and Thomas Kuehn, “Women and Law in France and Italy,” in Women in Medieval Western European Culture, ed. Linda E. Mitchell (New York: Garland, 1999), 136–39; Kuehn, “Person and Gender in the Laws.” 12. Barbara B. Diefendorf, “Women and Property in Ancien Régime France: Theory and Practice in Dauphiné and Paris,” in Early Modern Conceptions of Property, ed. John Brewer and Susan Staves (London: Routledge, 1996), 170–93; see also Julie Hardwick, The Practice of Patriarchy: Gender and the Politics of Household Authority in Early Modern France (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998), esp. xvi: “Family members were actors as well as subjects in historical processes, and their selection of choices played a part from a grassroots level—as did ideology and laws—in shaping the broadly patriarchal political culture of early...
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