Queens, Queenship, and Natural Resource Management in Premodern - Europe, 1400 180

This innovative collection examines how European queens participated in the conceptualisation, mobilisation, and transformation of 'natural resources' from the fifteenth to the end of the eighteenth century.

List of contents

1. Queens, Queenship, and Natural Resource Management in a More-than-Human Premodern World
Susan Broomhall and Clare Davidson
1. Preserving the queen's resources, pressing ancient privileges: Joan of Navarre and the management of forest and park lands
Elena Woodacre
2. Bohemian Queens and the Management of the Royal Domain Estates in Medieval Times
Robert T. Tomczak
3. Sovereign Hybridities: Anne of Brittany, Claude of France and more-than-human resource management at the château of Blois
Susan Broomhall
4. Catherine of Aragon, the Forest and Hunting: Representations, Knowledge and Practices of a Foreign-Born Consort
Sally Fisher
5. Redefining Resource Stewardship in the Interest of the Dynasty: Bona Sforza's Innovations in Poland and Lithuania
Darius von Güttner-Sporzy¿ski
6. Catherine of Austria (1507-1578), Portuguese Colonialisation and the Brazilian Arara
Jessica O'Leary
7. Queen Elizabeth's mineral grants: how corporate monarchy and corporate mining structured natural resource policy in late sixteenth-century England
Clare Davidson
8. Anna Jagiellon's forest management: legal bases, methods of governance and exploitation
Agnieszka Paw¿owska-Kubik
9. The Soapmakers and the Queen: The Rhetoric of Maternalism in the 'Oil Affairs' of late Sixteenth-Century England
Sarah Bendall
10. A Danish Queen as Industrial Entrepreneur: Charlotte Amalie of Hessen-Kassel and her Lands
Cathleen Sarti
11. Queen Charlotte and the colonies: Queenly agency in collecting Australia's flora and fauna
Lorinda Cramer

About the author

Susan Broomhall is the Director of the Gender and Women's History Research Centre and Professor of Early Modern Studies at the Australian Catholic University. She researches women and gender in the early modern world, including the role of gender ideologies in premodern natural resource management.
Clare Davidson is a research fellow at Australian Catholic University. She works on the medieval and early modern history of emotions, law, gender, and belief, and the reception of medieval and early modern history in contemporary law and politics.

Summary

This innovative collection examines how European queens participated in the conceptualisation, mobilisation, and transformation of ‘natural resources’ from the fifteenth to the end of the eighteenth century.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Davidson Broomhall
• Assisted by: Susan Broomhall (Editor), Broomhall Susan (Editor), Clare Davidson (Editor), Davidson Clare (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032723051
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3272305-1
• No. of pages: 340
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499, Diplomacy, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History and Archaeology, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, C 1700 To C 1800