Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Illustrations 7
4. Introduction 9
5. Part I Mediterranean Crossings
6. 1. Going Beyond Montagu. The Network of Subaltern Women in the Turkish Embassy, 1716–1718 25
7. 2. Gendered Naming Practices among Coptic Christians in Sixteenth- Century Cairo. A Preliminary Assessment 47
8. 3. The “Queen of Algiers” An Enterprising Renegade in the Rome of Pope Sixtus V 61
9. 4. An Exotic Migrant , Despina Basaraba Networks a New Life in Papal Rome circa 1600 83
10. Part II Local Networks in Europe
11. 5. Domestic Violence and Networks of Female Support in Seventeenth- Century England 119
12. 6. The Place-Based Networks of Sex Workers in Sixteenth-Century Venice 139
13. 7. Making a Name in Music. Professional and Social Strategies of the Musicians at the Venetian Ospedali Maggiori 165
14. 8. Food and Drink Make Relationships. Female Alliances and Commensality in Celestina and La Lozana andaluza 187
15. Part III Body and Spirit in Colonial Spanish America
16. 9. “Wall Neighbors,” Mothers-in-Law, and Comadres. Spousal Violence and Networks of Plebeian Female Intimacy and Solidarity in Urban Neighborhoods of Early to Mid-Colonial New Spain (1550–1670) 207
17. 10. Far from the Margins. Non-elite Single Women and Spiritual Networking in Colonial Guatemala 231
18. Supplementary Bibliography of Secondary Works 251
19. Index 255