Queenship and Counsel in Early Modern Europe

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Matheson-Pollock, Helen (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Paul, Joanne (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Fletcher, Catherine (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Queenship and Power
• Subjects: Europe-History-1492-.; Sociology.; Civilization-History.; History of Early Modern Europe.; Gender Studies.; Cultural History.

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...