Anne J. Cruz is Professor Spanish and Cooper Fellow in the Humanities Emerita at the University of Miami. She has published on Renaissance poetics, the picaresque novel, Cervantes, and early modern women. A corresponding member of Spain’s Royal Academy of History, she edits the series New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies. Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez is Assistant Professor of History at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid. Her research focuses on early modern queenship and court patronage. Her recent book on Isabel de Borbón investigates the Spanish queen’s noble household; she is currently studying the political agency of female nobility.

• Introduction: Early Modern Women’s Mobility - Anne J. Cruz and Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez Part I. Transoceanic Crossings Chapter 1. Inés Muñoz de Ribera: The Making of an Encomendera in Sixteenth-century Peru - Liliana Pérez-Miguel Chapter 2. Isabel Barreto, Navigator of the South Seas and Governor of the Isles of Salomon - Mercedes Camino Chapter 3. Founding a Convent in the Philippines: Discursive Keys to Travel Narratives of Early Modern Female Religious Communities - María D. Martos Pérez Part II. Gender Transactions Chapter 4. Cassandra Grimaldo’s Voyage of No Return: A Genoese Businesswoman in Habsburg Spain - Carmen Sanz Ayán Chapter 5. Trade, Credit, and Marriage: The Mobility of Portuguese Conversa Merchants and Financiers - Cristina Hernández Casado Chapter 6. Travel and the Illegible Body in Historia de la Monja Alférez: The Autobiography of Catalina de Erauso - Cortney Benjamin Chapter 7. Hortense Mancini: A Life on the Run - J. Antonio López Anguita Part III. Transnational Politics Chapter 8. Seeking Support from the Spanish Monarchy: The Manly Flight of Mary Stuart O’Donnell, Countess of Tyrconnell - Montserrat Pérez-Toribio Chapter 9. Marie de Rohan, Duchess of Chevreuse: Schemer, Spy, and Wartime Fugitive at the European Courts - Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez Chapter 10. Mobilizing Female Relatives: The Countess of Berlepsch’s Strategies at the Habsburg Courts - Valentina Marguerite Kozák Chapter 11. A Cosmopolitan Ambassadress on the Road: Anna Colonna, Marquise of Los Balbases - Andrea Bergaz Álvarez Notes on Contributors