Overview
- 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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Keywords
- early modern political discourse
- Queens consort
- advisers to royalty
- early Modern Europe
- women and power in history
- sixteenth-century Poland-Lithuania
- early modern political counsel
- Catherine of Aragon
- Mary Tudor
- Catherine Jagiellon
- Ladies' Peace
- early modern diplomacy
- Catherine de Medici
- Mary Stuart
- Elizabeth I in The Faerie Queene
- Anna of Denmark
Table of contents (12 chapters)
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)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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