Queenship and counsel in early modern Europe / Helen Matheson-Pollock, Joanne Paul, Catherine Fletcher, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Matheson-Pollock, Helen, editor.

Paul, Joanne, editor.

Fletcher, Catherine, 1975- editor.

Series:

Queenship and power

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Queens--Political activity--Europe--History.

Queens.

Women--Political activity--Europe--History.

Women.

Queens--Europe--Social conditions--History.

Women--Europe--Social conditions--History.

Social conditions.

History.

Women--Political activity.

Queens--Political activity.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1485-1603.

Great Britain.

Politics and government.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xiii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Summary:

Describes the political activities of such early modern European queens, regents, and consorts as Elizabeth I of England, Catherine Jagiellon of Sweden, Catherine de' Medici, and Anne of Denmark.

"The discourse of political counsel in early modern Europe depended on the participation of men, as both counsellors and counselled. Women were often thought too irrational or imprudent to give or receive political advice--but they did in unprecedented numbers, as this volume shows. These essays trace the relationship between queenship and counsel through over three hundred years of history. Case studies span Europe, from Sweden and Poland-Lithuania via the Habsburg territories to England and France, and feature queens regnant, consort and regent, including Elizabeth I of England, Catherine Jagiellon of Sweden, Catherine de' Medici and Anna of Denmark. They draw on a variety of innovative sources to recover evidence of queenly counsel, from treatises and letters to poetry, masques and architecture. For scholars of history, politics and literature in early modern Europe, this book enriches our understanding of royal women as political actors." -- Publisher's description

Contents:

Introduction / Helen Matheson-Pollock, Joanne Paul, and Catherine Fletcher

Bona Sforza and the Realpolitik of Queenly Counsel in Sixteenth-Century Poland-Lithuania / Katarzyna Kosior

Between Kings and Emperors: Catherine of Aragon as Counsellor and Mediator / Michelle L. Beer

Counselloresses and Court Politics: Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Female Counsel in European Politics, 1509-15 / Helen Matheson-Pollock

Catherine Jagiellon, Queen Consort of Sweden: Counselling Between the Catholic Jagiellons and the Lutheran Vasas / Susanna Niiranen

The Ladies' Peace Revisited: Gender, Counsel and Diplomacy / Catherine Fletcher

Counsel as Performative Practice of Power in Catherine de' Medici's Early Regencies / Susan Broomhall

Mary Stuart and Her Rebels-Turned-Privy Councillors: Performance of the Ritual of Counsel / Alexandra Nancy Johnson

The Moor's Counsel: Sir Francis Walsingham's Advice to Elizabeth I / Hannah Coates

The Queen as the Counsellor's Muse: Elizabeth I in The Faerie Queene's Proems / John Walters

Reconsidering the Political Role of Anna of Denmark / Anna Whitelock

Epilogue: "Publica si domini regerent moderamina cunni": Deciphering Queenship and Counsel / Joanne Paul.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319769738

3319769731

OCLC:

1022079440