Enrique IV's masculinity was faltering. After his dethronement in effigy at the Farce of Ávila in the summer of 1465, Juan Pacheco and his allies had called into question not only the king's right to ...
Chivalry, Reading, and Women's Culture in Early Modern Spain contests this view, arguing that the surprisingly egalitarian gender politics of Spain's most famous romance of chivalry has guaranteed it ...