This book explores the representation of music in early modern Spanish literature and reveals how music was understood within the framework of the Harmony of th

As Spain encountered economic and political crises in the seventeenth century, the imagery of musical performance was invoked by the state to represent the powe

Unlike empresses in Germany and queens in England and France, the lives and political careers of most Iberian queens remain largely unknown to non-specialists.

Throughout Spanish colonial America, limpieza de sangre (literally, "purity of blood") determined an individual's status within the complex system of social hie

This book presents the first study of music in convent life in a single Hispanic city, Barcelona, during the early modern era. Exploring how convents were invol