Ideal Men: Masculinity and Decline in Seventeenth-Century Spain<sup>*</sup>

Lehfeldt, Elizabeth A.

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“…Such writers blamed the perceived decline of the country on the lack of virile strength among its ruling elites. 93 In response they fashioned 'images of ideal men' with the intention of correcting moral decline. 94 Interestingly, Roa followed the same line of reasoning but he used models of ideal femininity to present a moral corrective to decadent masculinity.…”

Section: Martín De Roa and The Literary Representation Of Ideal Femininity: The Case Of The Vida De Doñ A Ana Ponce De Leó Nmentioning

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Martín de Roa, S.J. (1559–1637) and the Consolidation of Catholic Literary Culture in Spain

Roldán-Figueroa

2014

European History Quarterly

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The article traces the life and work of Martín de Roa, S.J. (1559–1637). It argues that he occupied an important place in the formation of seventeenth-century Catholic literary culture in Spain. 1 His literary production is discussed against the backdrop of Spanish religious literature of the period and is evaluated in connection to his institutional location as a member of the Society of Jesus. Inventories of private book collections as well as citations or quotations in the written works of learned authors are carefully examined to establish the circulation and appropriation of his writings. The article analyses how the Real Academia Española appropriated his writings for the Diccionario de la lengua castellana, published between 1726 and 1739. The article closes with a study of Roa’s Vida de Doña Ana Ponce de León, Condesa de Feria, y después monja en el Monasterio de santa Clara de Montilla (Córdoba 1604), which highlights his post-Tridentine construction of femininity and masculinity.

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Section: Martín De Roa and The Literary Representation Of Ideal Femininity: The Case Of The Vida De Doñ A Ana Ponce De Leó Nmentioning

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Martín de Roa, S.J. (1559–1637) and the Consolidation of Catholic Literary Culture in Spain

Roldán-Figueroa

2014

European History Quarterly

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Spanish Fashion and Sumptuary Legislation from the Thirteenth to the Eighteenth Century*

Wunder¹

2019

The Right to Dress

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Influential Women, New World Riches, and Masculine Anxieties in the Development of the Spanish Council of the Indies, 1524–98

Masters

2021

Renaiss. Q.

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Sixteenth-century Spain was at the vanguard of European collegiate bureaucratic rule and imperial governance. This article argues that its Council of the Indies became substantially more bureaucratic partly due to the influence of women. Vassals’ attempts to shape ministers’ decisions via female connections prompted the council's fundamental 1542 and 1571 guidelines. Subsequently, Madrid's anxieties about women's sway, and surfeits of Indies commodities, stirred misogynistic treatises, royal scrutiny, and an increasingly explicit masculine ministerial ethos. Women's influence over council operations nonetheless persisted, through near-invisible labor contributions and petitions. One female author in Peru even envisioned influential women directing the empire.

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Ideal Men: Masculinity and Decline in Seventeenth-Century Spain^*

Cited by 20 publications

References 13 publications

Martín de Roa, S.J. (1559–1637) and the Consolidation of Catholic Literary Culture in Spain

Martín de Roa, S.J. (1559–1637) and the Consolidation of Catholic Literary Culture in Spain

Spanish Fashion and Sumptuary Legislation from the Thirteenth to the Eighteenth Century*

Influential Women, New World Riches, and Masculine Anxieties in the Development of the Spanish Council of the Indies, 1524–98

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Ideal Men: Masculinity and Decline in Seventeenth-Century Spain*

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Martín de Roa, S.J. (1559–1637) and the Consolidation of Catholic Literary Culture in Spain

Martín de Roa, S.J. (1559–1637) and the Consolidation of Catholic Literary Culture in Spain

Spanish Fashion and Sumptuary Legislation from the Thirteenth to the Eighteenth Century*

Influential Women, New World Riches, and Masculine Anxieties in the Development of the Spanish Council of the Indies, 1524–98

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Ideal Men: Masculinity and Decline in Seventeenth-Century Spain^*