The female face of power. Influence and roles of Nasrid women on the Alhambra courtly politics (13th-15th centuries)
Abstract
Despite the fact that for centuries women have occupied the hidden side of history, due to multiple reasons —some of them of historiographical nature—, their active and wide participation in different scopes of politics during the Middle Ages is nowadays undeniable. This reality can be perfectly applied to the women belonging to the Nasrid dynasty, who were consequently veiled in the Arabic chronicles due to both their condition of sultanas and Muslim women. However, their existences, identities, and political activities have emerged in a number of scattered news that prove the crucial influence they exerted in the Nasrid politics throughout the three centuries the Kingdom of Granada lasted.
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