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María Tausiet
Amor indecible
Ensayo del libro On Declaring Love. Eighteenth-Century Literature and Jane Austen de Fred Parker. Londres y Nueva York, Routledge, 2019 “Este ensayo forma parte de un proyecto financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación(ERC)en el marco del Programa de Investigación e Innovación Horizonte 2020 de la Unión Europea (Número de concesión 787015)”. Convocatoria: ERC-2017-ADG
Feeling Upside Down: Witchcraft and Exclusion in the Twilight of Early Modern Spain
In mid-1812, in the village of Tosos (Zaragoza), more than thirty-two of the inhabitants claimed to be possessed. Most of the population accepted the supernatural explanation of maleficence and cast the blame on one woman, Joaquina Martínez, who was labelled a witch and sorceress and whose life was threatened on several occasions thereafter, until she was definitively expelled from the village. Had this happened in the 16th or 17th century, Joaquina would have been tried and awarded a harsh sentence.Two centuries on from the end of the “witch-hunt”, however, as if in a “looking-glass world”, those brought to trial were her persecutors.The episcopal trial of the so-called “possessed of Tosos…
Mil y un géneros. La transhistoria de Catterina Vizzani
Reseña del libro: The Life and legend of Catterina Vizzani. Sexual identity, science and sensationalism in Eighteenth-Century Italy and England por Clorinda Donato. London, Liverpool University Press, 2020 Horizon 2020/ERC-2017-Advanced Grant-787015 Review of the book: The Life and legend of Catterina Vizzani. Sexual identity, science and sensationalism in Eighteenth-Century Italy and England by Clorinda Donato. London, Liverpool University Press, 2020
When Venus stays awake, Minerva sleeps: a narrative of female sanctity in eighteenth-century Spain
Written records of confession provide exceptional insight into private histories of women and the gender dynamics that shaped them. The sacrament of confession entailed an implicit inequality between men and women, given that the priest was considered to be shrouded in divine power while the penitent had to submit herself to his moral authority. Nevertheless, confession also offered women the opportunity to express themselves and to discuss and understand their spiritual concerns. Some hoped their confessors would recognize their religious charisma, which would involve an affirmation of individuality, autonomy and personal power. In Spain, we find key information about interactions between …
Malas madres. De brujas voraces a fantasmas letales
El miedo a las mujeres se expresó desde antiguo en la figura de la madre insensible y cruel, capaz de arrebatar la vida a sus hijos. Desde la Medea griega, el mito de la infanticida terminó plasmándose en la Europa Moderna en las brujas devoradoras de niños. Entre los arquetipos extremos de la madre-bruja asesina y la madre idealizada, se sitúa un tipo de maldad ambigua y sutil: la de la madre dominante que, aunque no elimina a sus hijos físicamente, ejerce una influencia debilitadora y maligna sobre ellos. El tabú de las malas madres afloró tímidamente en la literatura europea desde la Edad Media, para alcanzar su expresión más refinada con el auge de la narrativa gótica, la Ilustración y …