Sex, Gender, and Illegitimacy in the Castilian Noble Family, 1400–1600

Honorable Mention for the 2022 Book Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender Sex, Gender, and Illegitimacy in the Castilian Noble Family, 1400–1600 looks at illegitimacy across the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyzes its implications for gender and family structure in the Spanish nobility, a class whose actions, structure, and power had immense implications for the future of the country and empire. Grace E. Coolidge demonstrates that women and men were abl