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Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe

The Roles of Powerful Women and Queens

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Editors:
  1. Estelle Paranque

    1. New College of the Humanities, London, United Kingdom

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  2. Nate Probasco

    1. Briar Cliff University, Sioux City, USA

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  3. Claire Jowitt

    1. University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

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  • Fills a gap in scholarship on early modern female rulers and their roles in foreign affairs
  • Focuses on several under-studied women, including Caterina Cornaro of Cyprus and Isabel Clara Eugenia of Austria
  • Contributes to a more complex, transnational understanding of national literatures and cultures
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Queenship and Power (QAP)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction to Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe: The Roles of Powerful Women and Queens

    • Nate Probasco, Estelle Paranque, Claire Jowitt
    Pages 1-14

  6. Back Matter

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About this book

This collection brings together essays examining the international influence of queens, other female rulers, and their representatives from 1450 through 1700, an era of expanding colonial activity and sea trade. As Europe rose in prominence geopolitically, a number of important women—such as Queen Elizabeth I of England, Catherine de Medici, Caterina Cornaro of Cyprus, and Isabel Clara Eugenia of Austria—exerted influence over foreign affairs. Traditionally male-dominated spheres such as trade, colonization, warfare, and espionage were, sometimes for the first time, under the control of powerful women. This interdisciplinary volume examines how they navigated these activities, and how they are represented in literature. By highlighting the links between female power and foreign affairs, Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe contributes to a fuller understanding of early modern queenship.


   

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“This volume demonstrates how fruitful interdisciplinary work can be in the fields of political, cultural, diplomatic, and global history. … In that respect, the editors have reached their aim to stress ‘that women … played crucial authoritative roles and were, at times, in charge of the decision-making processes that shaped what was to be ‘discovered’ and, just as importantly, who was to participate and benefit’ … .” (Indravati Félicité, Early Modern Woman, EMWJ, Vol. 15 (2), 2021)

“A fascinating collection of scholarly articles about the role of Queens and other powerful women in trade, finance and foreign affairs during the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.… The book is a valuable contribution to the study of queenship, revealing the full range of activities undertaken by early modern royal women.” (royalhistorian.com, February, 2018)

“This edited volume offers a number of case studies exemplifying how not only queen consorts and regents across Europe, but also women from more humble backgrounds, entered these spheres and showed themselves competent rulers, diplomats, and patrons of overseas exploration. … This edited collection is likely to appeal to scholars of royal studies and early modern diplomacy, and students of (political) history and gender studies.” (Nadia T. van Pelt, Journal of the Northern Renaissance, northernrenaissance.org, November, 2017)


“This exciting collection brings together a wonderfully varied selection of case studies which shed new light on the role that powerful women played in the early modern period, when the Age of Discovery opened up new global vistas in terms of trading links and colonial expansion. All too often the narrative of this period has been focused on male exploration and imperial ambition but this volume puts women squarely in the picture by demonstrating their active engagement in colonization, piracy and trade.” (Elena Woodacre, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern European History, University of Winchester, UK)

Editors and Affiliations

  • New College of the Humanities, London, United Kingdom

    Estelle Paranque

  • Briar Cliff University, Sioux City, USA

    Nate Probasco

  • University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

    Claire Jowitt

About the editors

Estelle Paranque is Lecturer in Early Modern History at New College of the Humanities, London, UK.


Nate Probasco is Assistant Professor of History at Briar Cliff University, USA.


Claire Jowitt is Professor of English and History and Associate Dean for Research for Arts and Humanities at the University of East Anglia, UK .

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe

  • Book Subtitle: The Roles of Powerful Women and Queens

  • Editors: Estelle Paranque, Nate Probasco, Claire Jowitt

  • Series Title: Queenship and Power

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57159-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57158-4Published: 16 August 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86091-6Published: 09 September 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57159-1Published: 03 August 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2730-938X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-9398

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 255

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: History of Early Modern Europe, Imperialism and Colonialism, Politics and Gender, History of Britain and Ireland, Social History

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