Queenship and Counsel in Early Modern Europe

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Matheson-Pollock, Helen (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Paul, Joanne (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Fletcher, Catherine (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Queenship and Power
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.