Queenship and counsel in early modern Europe. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Helen Matheson-Pollock, Joanne Paul, Catherine Fletcher.
• Editors: Matheson-Pollock, Helen; Paul, Joanne; Fletcher, Catherine, 1975-
• Contents: 1. Introduction2. Bona Sforza and the Realpolitik of Queenly Counsel in Sixteenth-Century Poland-Lithuania3. Between Kings and Emperors: Catherine of Aragon as Counselor and Mediator4. Counselloresses and Court Politics: Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Female Counsel in European Politics, 1509–155. Catherine Jagiellon, Queen Consort of Sweden: Counselling between the Catholic Jagiellons and the Lutheran Vasas6.The Ladies' Peace Revisited: Gender, Counsel and Diplomacy7. Counsel as Performative Practice of Power in Catherine de Medici's Early Regencies8. Mary Stuart and Her Rebels-turned-Privy Councillors: Performance of the Ritual of Counsel9. The Moor's Counsel: Sir Francis Walsingham's Advice to Elizabeth I10. The Queen as the Counselor's Muse: Elizabeth I in The Faerie Queene's Proems11. Reconsidering the Political Role of Anna of Denmark12. Epilogue: "Publica si domini regerent moderamina cunni": Deciphering Queenship and Counsel.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 320.082094; Women -- Political activity -- Europe -- History; Queens -- Political activity -- Europe -- History; Women -- Europe -- Social conditions -- History; Queens -- Europe -- Social conditions -- History; Women -- Europe -- History -- Case studies; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1485-1603
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319769745
• Related ISBNs: 9783319769738
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