Queenship and Counsel in Early Modern Europe

Comprises cutting edge research and will appeal to scholars in history, literature, philosophy, and art history Explores gender roles in the early modern world in politics and diplomacy Features a strong geographic depth of coverage in both Europe and Latin America

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.

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.