Dedication

pp 5-6

Contents

pp 7-8

Acknowledgments

pp 9-10

Introduction: Early Modern Women’s Mobility

pp 11-32

Part I - Transoceanic Crossings

pp 33-34

1 - Inés Muñoz de Ribera : The Making of an Encomendera in Sixteenth-Century Peru

pp 35-54

2 - Isabel Barreto , Navigator of the South Seas and Governor of the Isles of Salomon

pp 55-78

3 - Founding a Convent in the Philippines : Discursive Keys to Travel Narratives of Early Modern Female Religious Communities

pp 79-98

Part II - Gender Transactions

pp 99-100

4 - Cassandra Grimaldo’s Voyage of No Return : A Genoese Businesswoman in Habsburg Spain

pp 101-120

5 - Trade, Credit, and Marriage : The Mobility of Portuguese Conversa Merchants and Financiers

pp 121-138

6 - Travel and the Illegible Body in the Historia de la Monja Alférez

pp 139-160

7 - Hortense Mancini: A Life on the Run

pp 161-184

Part III - Transnational Politics

pp 185-186

8 - Seeking Support from the Spanish Monarchy : The Manly Flight of Mary Stuart O’Donnell, Countess of Tyrconnell

pp 187-210

9 - Marie de Rohan, Duchess of Chevreuse : Schemer, Spy, and Wartime Fugitive at the European Courts

pp 211-230

10 - Mobilizing Female Relatives : The Countess of Berlepsch’s Strategies at the Habsburg Courts

pp 231-252

11 - A Cosmopolitan Ambassadress on the Road : Anna Colonna, Marquise of Los Balbases

pp 253-274

Index

pp 275-280