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Queenship and Counsel in Early Modern Europe

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Editors:
  1. Helen Matheson-Pollock

    1. University College London, London, United Kingdom

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  2. Joanne Paul

    1. University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

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  3. Catherine Fletcher

    1. Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom

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  • Offers the first study of the relationship between queenship and counsel from a pan-European perspective
  • Examines the strategies that royal women employed to establish influence and give counsel
  • Includes a wide variety of sources and themes, from literary text, material culture and architecture to rhetoric, relationships and performance
  • Appeals to scholars of history, politics and literature in early modern Europe, particularly early modern royalty, courts and diplomacy

Part of the book series: Queenship and Power (QAP)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Helen Matheson-Pollock, Joanne Paul, Catherine Fletcher
    Pages 1-14

  3. Bona Sforza and the Realpolitik of Queenly Counsel in Sixteenth-Century Poland-Lithuania

    • Katarzyna Kosior
    Pages 15-34

  4. Between Kings and Emperors: Catherine of Aragon as Counsellor and Mediator

    • Michelle L. Beer
    Pages 35-58

  5. Counselloresses and Court Politics: Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Female Counsel in European Politics, 1509–15

    • Helen Matheson-Pollock
    Pages 59-82

  6. Catherine Jagiellon, Queen Consort of Sweden: Counselling Between the Catholic Jagiellons and the Lutheran Vasas

    • Susanna Niiranen
    Pages 83-110

  7. The Ladies’ Peace Revisited: Gender, Counsel and Diplomacy

    • Catherine Fletcher
    Pages 111-133

  8. Counsel as Performative Practice of Power in Catherine de’ Medici’s Early Regencies

    • Susan Broomhall
    Pages 135-159

  9. Mary Stuart and Her Rebels-Turned-Privy Councillors: Performance of the Ritual of Counsel

    • Alexandra Nancy Johnson
    Pages 161-185

  10. The Moor’s Counsel: Sir Francis Walsingham’s Advice to Elizabeth I

    • Hannah Coates
    Pages 187-214

  11. The Queen as the Counsellor’s Muse: Elizabeth I in The Faerie Queene’s Proems

    • John Walters
    Pages 215-235

  12. Reconsidering the Political Role of Anna of Denmark

    • Anna Whitelock
    Pages 237-258

  13. Epilogue: “Publica si domini regerent moderamina cunni”: Deciphering Queenship and Counsel

    • Joanne Paul
    Pages 259-275

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 277-284
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About this book

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.

Reviews

“This is a valuable addition to the Queenship and Counsel series and a useful work for anyone wanting to learn about how queens in Early Modern Europe were counselled and how they received that counsel, with some, like Elizabeth I, taking counsel but often still ignoring it and making her own decision. It is still a very academic work, and so I would only recommend this to those who have some experience of the events in question.” (Charlie Fenton, Tudor Life, Issue 53, January, 2019)

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Editors and Affiliations

  • University College London, London, United Kingdom

    Helen Matheson-Pollock

  • University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

    Joanne Paul

  • Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom

    Catherine Fletcher

About the editors

Helen Matheson-Pollock is Honorary Research Associate at University College London, UK.


Joanne Paul is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Sussex, UK.


Catherine Fletcher is Associate Professor in History and Heritage at Swansea University, UK.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Queenship and Counsel in Early Modern Europe

  • Editors: Helen Matheson-Pollock, Joanne Paul, Catherine Fletcher

  • Series Title: Queenship and Power

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76974-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76973-8Published: 25 July 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08337-3Published: 08 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76974-5Published: 16 July 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2730-938X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-9398

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 284

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Early Modern Europe, Gender Studies, Cultural History

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