Queenship and counsel in early modern Europe / Helen Matheson-Pollock, Joanne Paul, Catherine Fletcher, editors.
Matheson-Pollock, Helen, editor.; Paul, Joanne, editor.; Fletcher, Catherine, editor.
2018
D226.7
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Title
Queenship and counsel in early modern Europe / Helen Matheson-Pollock, Joanne Paul, Catherine Fletcher, editors.
ISBN
9783319769745 (electronic book)
331976974X (electronic book)
9783319769738
3319769731
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Copyright
©2018
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 284 pages).
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D226.7
Dewey Decimal Classification
940.2209252
Summary
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.
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Matheson-Pollock, Helen, editor.
Paul, Joanne, editor.
Fletcher, Catherine, editor.
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Queenland and power.
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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction; Bibliography; Chapter 2: Bona Sforza and the Realpolitik of Queenly Counsel in Sixteenth-Century Poland-Lithuania; Bibliography; Chapter 3: Between Kings and Emperors: Catherine of Aragon as Counsellor and Mediator; Ambassadorial Counsel and Familial Mediation; Facilitating Communication and Counsel Through Hospitality; Material Culture as Silent Advice; Bibliography; Chapter 4: Counselloresses and Court Politics: Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Female Counsel in European Politics, 1509-15; I

IIIII; IV; V; VI; VII; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Literature; Chapter 5: Catherine Jagiellon, Queen Consort of Sweden: Counselling Between the Catholic Jagiellons and the Lutheran Vasas; Doska the Dwarf and the Polish Courtly Community; Confessional Counselling; Courtiers and Ambassadors Advising the King and Queen; Conclusion; Archival Sources; Printed Sources; Bibliography; Electronic; Chapter 6: The Ladies' Peace Revisited: Gender, Counsel and Diplomacy; The Protagonists' Careers; Warfare and Counsel; Women, Peace and Diplomacy; Bibliography; Primary Sources

Secondary LiteratureChapter 7: Counsel as Performative Practice of Power in Catherine de' Medici's Early Regencies; Seeking Counsel as the Development of Political Wisdom; Counsel as Political Alliance; Counselling a King; Counsel from the King's Trusted Representative; Seeking Counsel as a Practice of Power; Conclusion; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Literature; Chapter 8: Mary Stuart and Her Rebels-Turned-Privy Councillors: Performance of the Ritual of Counsel; Scotland's Conciliar Tradition; Mary's Planning in France; Creating Conciliar Space at Holyrood

Setting the Ceremonial StageConclusion; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Literature; Chapter 9: The Moor's Counsel: Sir Francis Walsingham's Advice to Elizabeth I; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Literature; Chapter 10: The Queen as the Counsellor's Muse: Elizabeth I in The Faerie Queene's Proems; The 1590 Proems: "Mirrours More Than One"; The 1596 Proems: "A Mighty Peres Displeasure"; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Chapter 11: Reconsidering the Political Role of Anna of Denmark; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Literature

Chapter 12: Epilogue: "Publica si domini regerent moderamina cunni": Deciphering Queenship and CounselBibliography; Index

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