Valentina Villafañe

Constructing Noble Memory Across the Atlantic: Genealogy and Legitimacy in the Villafañe Lineage (16th–17th Centuries)

This study examines the role of genealogy in the construction of noble identity and social legitimacy through the case of the Villafañe lineage between the Kingdom of León and Spanish America during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing upon archival documentation, gen...