François Soyer is Associate Professor at the University of New England, Australia. He is the author of several books, including Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories in the Early Modern Iberian World (2019) and Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal (2012). He is also the co-editor of Emotions in Europe 1517–1914: Revolutions, 1715–1789 (2021) and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements Chronology of the Life and Trial of Maria DuranList of Abbreviations MapsIntroductionPart I: The Remarkable Life of Maria Duran1. The Fugitive Wife from a Small Village in the Pyrenees 2. Maria Becomes a Soldier3. Maria Duran Travels to Lisbon4. Sex and Suspicion in the Recolhimentos of Lisbon5. The Nuns and Novices of Our Lady of Paradise6. Enter the Inquisition7. Maria on Trial8. “A Real Woman and Not a Hermaphrodite”: The Anatomical Examination of Maria Duran9. Torture, Verdict and Punishment10. Maria on Display: the Auto-da-fé of 21 June 1744Part II: The Maria Duran Mystery: Transgressive Sexuality, Transing Gender and Gender Performativity in the Trial of Maria DuranEpilogueBibliographyIndex

This is a book one cannot put down! Soyer’s narrative of this extraordinary case reads as a thrilling mystery novel; the construction of the characters is flawless, the telling of the story spell-binding, the most brilliant example of microhistory since Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms

François Soyer is Associate Professor at the University of New England, Australia. He is the author of several books, including Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories in the Early Modern Iberian World (2019) and Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal (2012). He is also the co-editor of Emotions in Europe 1517–1914: Revolutions, 1715–1789 (2021) and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements Chronology of the Life and Trial of Maria DuranList of Abbreviations MapsIntroductionPart I: The Remarkable Life of Maria Duran1. The Fugitive Wife from a Small Village in the Pyrenees 2. Maria Becomes a Soldier3. Maria Duran Travels to Lisbon4. Sex and Suspicion in the Recolhimentos of Lisbon5. The Nuns and Novices of Our Lady of Paradise6. Enter the Inquisition7. Maria on Trial8. “A Real Woman and Not a Hermaphrodite”: The Anatomical Examination of Maria Duran9. Torture, Verdict and Punishment10. Maria on Display: the Auto-da-fé of 21 June 1744Part II: The Maria Duran Mystery: Transgressive Sexuality, Transing Gender and Gender Performativity in the Trial of Maria DuranEpilogueBibliographyIndex

This is a book one cannot put down! Soyer’s narrative of this extraordinary case reads as a thrilling mystery novel; the construction of the characters is flawless, the telling of the story spell-binding, the most brilliant example of microhistory since Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms

François Soyer is Associate Professor at the University of New England, Australia. He is the author of several books, including Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories in the Early Modern Iberian World (2019) and Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal (2012). He is also the co-editor of Emotions in Europe 1517–1914: Revolutions, 1715–1789 (2021) and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements Chronology of the Life and Trial of Maria DuranList of Abbreviations MapsIntroductionPart I: The Remarkable Life of Maria Duran1. The Fugitive Wife from a Small Village in the Pyrenees 2. Maria Becomes a Soldier3. Maria Duran Travels to Lisbon4. Sex and Suspicion in the Recolhimentos of Lisbon5. The Nuns and Novices of Our Lady of Paradise6. Enter the Inquisition7. Maria on Trial8. “A Real Woman and Not a Hermaphrodite”: The Anatomical Examination of Maria Duran9. Torture, Verdict and Punishment10. Maria on Display: the Auto-da-fé of 21 June 1744Part II: The Maria Duran Mystery: Transgressive Sexuality, Transing Gender and Gender Performativity in the Trial of Maria DuranEpilogueBibliographyIndex

This is a book one cannot put down! Soyer’s narrative of this extraordinary case reads as a thrilling mystery novel; the construction of the characters is flawless, the telling of the story spell-binding, the most brilliant example of microhistory since Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms