Table of Contents

Part 1 From Maidenhood to the Marriage State; Chapter 1 Marriage and Sexuality in Al-Andalus, Manuela Marín; Chapter 2 Intimate Violence: Shrew Taming as Wedding Ritual in the Conde Lucanor, Louise O. Vasvári; Chapter 3 The Consells-Consejos on Marriage and Their Broader Sentimental Context, Antonio Cortijo Ocaña; Part 2 Playing the Game of Wife and Mother; Chapter 4 Pawn or Player?: Violant of Bar and the Game of Matrimonial Politics in the Crown of Aragon (1380–1396), Dawn Bratsch-Prince; Chapter 5 Milking the Poor: Wet-nursing and the Sexual Economy of Early Modern Spain, Emilie L. Bergmann; Part 3 Love and Sexuality; Chapter 6 Natural Love in Early Renaissance Spanish Theater: Serafina, an Anonymous Comedia of 1521, David R. Castillo; Chapter 7 “Un engaño a los ojos”: Sex and Allegory in La Lozana andaluza, Manuel da Costa Fontes; Chapter 8 Changing Boundaries of Licit and Illicit Unions: Concubinage and Prostitution, Eukene Lacarra Lanz; Part 4 Female Approaches to Power; Chapter 9 Writing and Sodomy in the Inquisitorial Trial (1495–1496) of Tecla Servent, Ronald Surtz; Chapter 10 “Moral Pornography”: Angela Carter and María de Zayas, Marina S. Brownlee; Afterword, Gwendolyn Barnes-Karol, Nicholas Spadaccini;

About the Author

Eukene Lacarra Lanz is Professor of Medieval Spanish Literature at the University of Basque Country in Spain.