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First published 2024 by Cornell University Press

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Silleras-Fernandez, Nuria, author.

Title: The politics of emotion : love, grief, and madness in medieval and early modern Iberia / Nuria Silleras-Fernandez.

Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2024. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2023020315 (print) | LCCN 2023020316 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501773860 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501773877 (epub) | ISBN 9781501773884 (pdf)

Subjects: LCSH: Isabel, of Portugal, Queen, consort of Juan II, King of Castile and Leon, 1428–1496. | Isabel, Queen, consort of Manuel I, King of Portugal, 1470–1498. | Juana, la Loca, Queen of Castile, 1479–1555. | Women—Iberian Peninsula—Social conditions—To 1500. | Emotions—Social aspects—History—To 1500. | Mental illness—Social aspects—History—To 1500.

Classification: LCC HQ1147.I23 S555 2024 (print) | LCC HQ1147.I23 (ebook) | DDC 305.420946—dc23/eng/20230504

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023020315

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023020316

Cover art: Bartolomé Ordoñez, tombs of Juana I of Castile and Philippe of Burgundy in the Royal Chapel of Granada, ca. 1518–33. Alamy Stock Photo.