Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I of England were two of the most notorious queens in E

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

Queens of Poland are conspicuously absent from the study of European queenship—an absence which, together with early modern Poland’s marginal place in the h

Forgotten Queens in Medieval and Early Modern Europe examines queens dowager and queens consort who have disappeared from history or have been deeply misunderst

The essays in this volume consider three aspects of queenship and politics: the institutional foundations and practice of politics, the politics of religion and