ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsNote on Names and TranslationsThe Politics of Emotion: An Introduction1. Love and Excess/Love as Excess2. Regulating Death, Grief, and Consolation3. Love and Sexuality as Power: Isabel of Portugal, Queen of Castile4. Contested Agency: Isabel of Portugal and Saint Beatriz da Silva5. Portugal, 1491: A Princess and a Kingdom in Mourning6. Consoling the Princess of Portugal, or the Price of Remarriage7. Juana and Isabel: The Tale of a Prodigal Daughter8. Madness in the Age of Empire: Juana I, Queen of CastileConclusion: Love and Death and the Politics of EmotionBibliographyIndex