Women in Lisbon in the 16th and 17th centuries, with Mariana Meneses Muñoz
What were the lives like of women who lived in Lisbon and did not belong to the elite in the 16th and 17th centuries? Historian Mariana Meneses Muñoz analyses court records from the period to discover their work activities and survival strategies, moving between the formal and informal sectors of the economy and transforming magical knowledge into economic resources through neighbourhood networks and female solidarity. Mariana Meneses Muñoz also talks about these women's occupation of public spaces and the networks of knowledge and neighbourhoods they created. The interview is conducted by Isabel Araújo Branco.
Mariana Meneses Muñoz is a researcher at CHAM, where she is preparing a PhD in Modern History on access to justice and forms of female legal representation in ecclesiastical courts in Lisbon. A FCT scholarship holder, Mariana Meneses Muñoz is part of the project ‘RESISTANCE: Rebellion and Resistance in the Iberian Empires, 16th-19th centuries’ and the project ‘EDGES: Introducing Indigenous Knowledge in Universities’. Her work focuses on the everyday moral and legal discourses, representations and behaviours of people who do not belong to the elites, studying inquisitorial processes in the Iberian Peninsula and in colonial contexts during the 16th and 17th centuries, integrating gender studies methodologies.
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Coordination
Isabel Araújo Branco (CHAM)
Organization
CHAM / NOVA FCSH
