Queen, Mother, and Stateswoman: Mariana of Austria and the Government of Spain. Silvia A. Mitchell. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019. xvi + 294 pp. $84.95

• Published in: Renaissance quarterly Vol. 74; no. 2; pp. 622 - 623
• Main Author: Silleras-Fernandez, Nuria
• Format: Journal Article Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.07.2021
• Subjects: Councils; Politics; Queens; Austria; United States > US; Pennsylvania; Spain

In Mitchell's words: “based on new sources and a reinterpretation of known ones, this monograph seeks to establish Mariana's rightful, preeminent place in Spanish history, a place denied to her for nearly three hundred years” (5). [...]this volume looks at seventeenth-century Spanish and E...