Liderazgo - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:40:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Liderazgo - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 The Countess of Montijo (1754-1808) https://historylab.es/the-countess-of-montijo-1754-1808/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-countess-of-montijo-1754-1808 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:27:41 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/la-condesa-de-montijo-1754-1808/ Video exhibition on the figure of the Countess of Montijo (1754-1808)

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]]> who was Mª Francisca de Sales Portocarrero y Guzmán (1754-1808), VI Countess of Montijo? The answer is offered by Gloria Franco Rubio, Professor of Modern History at the Complutense University of Madrid, in a presentation lasting just over 13 minutes. The video, hosted on the website Recursos Didácticos para la Historia Moderna y Contemporánea de las Mujeres y las Relaciones de Género en España, focuses on her figure as one of the most brilliant women of enlightened Spain. Translator of French works, salon conductor, active secretary of the Junta de Damas, she was also a suspect in religious matters. Her life trajectory shows a strong and free personality, unconventional in the society of her time and contrary to the model of the traditional domestic woman. Involved in the problems of her time, she wanted to contribute to the attainment of public happiness by getting involved in the search for solutions, developing activities and contributing initiatives that led her to adopt a personal commitment to the reformist tendencies of the enlightened governments, almost always acting with great solidarity towards women

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