Title:
OLIVA SABUCO, A CONTROVERSIAL CHARACTER

Authors:
Juan Núñez-Valdés

Abstract:
The main goal of this paper is to highlight the serious difficulties that researchers still find nowadays on any subject when they want to contrast the different information they find in the sources, both bibliographic and digital, where there is a lot of information that in many cases it is usually wrong or is clearly incompatible with that of other sources also consulted. Un example of this assert is constituted by the biography of a Spanish woman of the sixteenth century, Oliva Sabuco, from whom some sources claim that she was a pharmacist, mathematician, philosopher and scholar, while others deny some or all of these characteristics. In any case, she can be considered as a referent of woman who fought hard against the gender difficulties she suffered.

Keywords:
Contrast of information, errors in the sources, gender difficulties, 16th century Spanish women, Oliva Sabuco.

DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.37500/IJESSR.2021.4410