By Ferran Garcés We continue the series started two weeks ago about the women of Bellesguard. We began with The Querelle des Femmes , a debate about the condition of women that arose in the era of these women. We then followed with the biography of The Two Queens Who Competed for the Palace after the […]
Read moreBy Ferran Garcés The end of the Casal de Barcelona is usually placed in 1410, with the death of King Martin I the Humane, who had no heir. This statement is true if we only consider the male members of the lineage. However, after the king’s funeral, two female members were still alive. These were […]
Read moreBy Ferran Garcés For almost fifty years, Bellesguard was owned by women who, far from having it easy due to this apparent privilege, had to fight against the circumstances of their peculiar fate. On the other hand, their efforts coincide with the beginnings of The Complaint of Women, a term used for the literary, […]
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