Queenship and Counsel in Early Modern Europe
Published on 25. July 2018
Book
Hardback
XIII, 284 pages
978-3-319-76973-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 / Votes
"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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Series
Edition
2018 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
4 s/w Abbildungen
XIII, 284 p. 4 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
503 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-319-76973-8 (9783319769738)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-76974-5
Schweitzer Classification
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
1. Introduction.- 2. Bona Sforza and the Realpolitik of Queenly Counsel in Sixteenth-Century Poland-Lithuania.- 3. Between Kings and Emperors: Catherine of Aragon as Counselor and Mediator.- 4. Counselloresses and Court Politics: Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Female Counsel in European Politics, 1509-15.- 5. Catherine Jagiellon, Queen Consort of Sweden: Counselling between the Catholic Jagiellons and the Lutheran Vasas.- 6.The Ladies' Peace Revisited: Gender, Counsel and Diplomacy.- 7. Counsel as Performative Practice of Power in Catherine de Medici's Early Regencies.- 8. Mary Stuart and Her Rebels-turned-Privy Councillors: Performance of the Ritual of Counsel.- 9. The Moor's Counsel: Sir Francis Walsingham's Advice to Elizabeth I.- 10. The Queen as the Counselor's Muse: Elizabeth I in
The Faerie Queene
's Proems.- 11. Reconsidering the Political Role of Anna of Denmark.- 12. Epilogue: "
Publica si domini regerent moderamina cunni
": Deciphering Queenship and Counsel.