Faces of Widowhood in Early Colonial Mexico
by
Shirley Cushing Flint
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Three generations of women in one family are the characters in this intimate historical study of what it meant to be a widow in sixteenth-century Mexico City. Shirley Cushing Flint has used archival research to tell the stories of five women in the Estrada family—a mother, three daughters, and a...