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Mariology, Queenship and Power in Isabel de Villena. A Female Political Theory of the 15th Century

Mariología, reginalidad y poder en Isabel de Villena. Una teoría política femenina del siglo XV

Published in Isabel de Villena (1430-1490)

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Isabel de Villena, author of Humanism, offers a female paradigm of government in her Vita Christi: The Virgin Mary as queen and as pope. Through queenship, she formulates a new political ethic that she presents as a model to power male holders. Its study confirms the participation of the author in the “Querelle of Femmes” and show coincidences with contemporary courts of queens like Isabel I.