Seville and Granada in the Sixteenth Century: Tales of Survival

Xavier Gil in English Historical Review 124 (2009): 161.

Among recent books criticizing the traditional approach to honor: Scott Taylor, Honor and Violence in Golden Age Spain (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008); and my own ‘Lazy, Improvident People’: Myth and Reality in the Writing of Spanish History (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006).

Helen Nader , introduction to Nader, ed., Power and Gender in Renaissance Spain: Eight Women of the Mendoza Family, 1450-1650 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004), 4.