Contents

pp 5-6

List of Illustrations

pp 7-8

Introduction

pp 9-22

Part I - Mediterranean Crossings

pp 23-24

1 - Going Beyond Montagu: The Network of Subaltern Women in the Turkish Embassy, 1716–1718

pp 25-46

2 - Gendered Naming Practices among Coptic Christians in Sixteenth-Century Cairo: A Preliminary Assessment

pp 47-60

3 - The “Queen of Algiers”: An Enterprising Renegade in the Rome of Pope Sixtus V

pp 61-82

4 - An Exotic Migrant, Despina Basaraba Networks a New Life in Papal Rome circa 1600

pp 83-116

Part II - Local Networks in Europe

pp 117-118

5 - Domestic Violence and Networks of Female Support in Seventeenth-Century England

pp 119-138

6 - The Place-Based Networks of Sex Workers in Sixteenth-Century Venice

pp 139-164

7 - Making a Name in Music: Professional and Social Strategies of the Musicians at the Venetian Ospedali Maggiori

pp 165-186

8 - Food and Drink Make Relationships: Female Alliances and Commensality in Celestina and La Lozana andaluza

pp 187-204

Part III - Body and Spirit in Colonial Spanish America

pp 205-206

9 - “Wall Neighbors,” Mothers-in-Law, and Comadres: Spousal Violence and Networks of Plebeian Female Intimacy and Solidarity in Urban Neighborhoods of Early to Mid-Colonial New Spain (1550–1670)

pp 207-230

10 - Far from the Margins: Non-elite Single Women and Spiritual Networking in Colonial Guatemala

pp 231-250

Supplementary Bibliography of Secondary Works

pp 251-254

Index

pp 255-257