For three medieval Iberian queens, grief – and the way they expressed it – had immense and far-reaching consequences. This week, Danièle speaks with Núria Silleras-Fernández about what grief and widowhood were “supposed” to look like, how grief and madness were thought to be intertwined with love, and how the grieving women in the famous Isabella the Catholic’s family shaped the history of Spain and Portugal.
For three medieval Iberian queens, grief – and the way they expressed it – had immense and far-reaching consequences. This week, Danièle speaks with Núria Silleras-Fernández about what grief and widowhood were “supposed” to look like, how grief and madness were thought to be intertwined with love, and how the grieving women in the famous Isabella the Catholic’s family shaped the history of Spain and Portugal.
Nuria Silleras-Fernandez is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her latest book is The Politics of Emotion: Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
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