Chariots of Ladies: Francesc Eiximenis and the Court Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Iberia Hardcover – Illustrated, November 25, 2015 9780801453830

Silleras-Fernandez uses archival documentation, letters, manuscripts, incunabula, and a wide range of published material to clarify how Eiximenis’s ideas on gender and devotion were read by Countess Sanxa Ximenis d’Arenós and Queen Maria de Luna of Aragon and how they were then changed by his adaptors and translators in Castile for new readers (including Isabel the Catholic and Juana the Mad), and in sixteenth-century Portugal for new patronesses (Juana’s daughter, Catalina of Habsburg, and Catalina’s daughter, Maria Manuela, the first wife of Philip II). Chariots of Ladies casts light on a neglected dimension of encounter and exchange in Iberia from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries.

Chariots of Ladies is the winner of the biennial Premio del Rey from the American Historical Association (2016), and of  La Corónica International Book Award 2017 (Modern Language Association Division on Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) and has also garnered Honorable Mentions from the Modern Language Association (Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, 2016) and the University of Colorado Boulder (Kayden Book Award, 2016).