This article presents the poetic and epistolary corpus of François Maynard as a case study for understanding public and private spaces for reading and writing in the seventeenth century, with particular reference to notions of the cabinet as a physical, social, and literary space.It considers Maynard’s poems as personal gifts, published texts in collective anthologies, and texts circulated in...

This article examines the legal relationship of horses to the status of the knight, or caballero, in late medieval and early modern Castile.Despite the upward mobility that horses offered knights serving in the Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula, ultimately it was the reverse privilege of being exempt from service on horseback, and even the option to ride mules, that became key to...