The Empress, the Queen, and the Nun: Women and Power at the Court of Philip III of Spain.(Review)

Canadian Journal of History | December 1, 1999| | Copyright

The Empress, the Queen, and the Nun: Women and Power at the Court of Philip III of Spain, by Magdalena S. Sachez. Baltimore, Maryland, John Hopkins University Press, 1998. xii, 267 pp. $39.95 U.S.

The common understanding of a period of history, especially a period so understudied as the reign of Philip III of Spain (1598-1621), tends to the reductionist. Hence Philip III has gone down in history as a pious and ineffectual monarch, thoroughly dominated by his wastrel privado, the Duke of Lerma, who squandered the wealth and prestige of the great empire bequeathed to ...

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