Overview
- 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)
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Demonstration of Power
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Exotic Encounters
Keywords
- Colonization
- Piracy
- Trade
- Queen Elizabeth I
- Catherine de Medici
- Gender Studies
- Female Rulers
- Queens
- Women in History
- Women in Foreign Affairs
- monarchy studies
- Thomas Middleton
- the Armada
- the Huguenots
- Mary I of England
- Caterina Cornaro
- Isabella Clara Eugenia
- early modern diplomacy
- Mary of Guise
- Anglo-Scottish diplomacy
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Reviews
“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
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