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Volume 30, No. 2 (August 2025)

Special Issue: ‘Ceremonial, Ritual and Courtly Female Iconography’, guest edited by Inmaculada Rodríguez Moya

ARTICLES

Franca Varallo – ‘Introduction: Women’s Ceremonial Practices and the Court — A Review’

Inmaculada Rodríguez Moya – ‘The Ceremonial Surrounding the Vicereine in the Viceroyalty of New Spain: Iconography, Devotion and Displays of Courtesy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries’

José Javier Azanza López and  Silvia Cazalla Canto – ‘Regina fortis: The Fortitude of Habsburg Queen-Consorts as Represented in the Rhetorical Imagery of Funerary Sermons’

Víctor Mínguez – ‘The Lunar Queens Who Came from France: Celestial Emblematic Images of Elisabeth of Valois, Elisabeth of Bourbon and Marie Louise of Orléans’

Mercedes Simal López – ‘Elisabeth Farnese Seen Through Her Portraits: Historic Modes of Portraiture Reworked for a New Era’

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