Queens, Queenship, and Natural Resource Management in Premodern Europe, 1400-1800

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-72304-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 699 g

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.

Early modern queens interacted with human and nonhuman worlds through natural resource management activities that have rarely been the focus of sustained historical analysis. This volume engages with the wide range of nonhuman materials, living and inanimate, that premodern queens had the power to direct and dispose of, to utilise, enjoy, and commercialise, to visualise and commemorate, and even to destroy, on and in their lands, forests, waterways, and oceans. Both queenship and natural resource management were configured by contemporary gender ideologies, which structured a dynamic relationship between queenship and the more-than-human world. The case studies in this collection explore how queens’ natural resource management was impacted by their cultural and personal contexts, particularly their changing status as queens regnant, consort, dowager, or regent. The contributors draw on diverse materials and employ a variety of historical approaches—including political, economic, cultural, literary, legal, and animal studies—to demonstrate how queens interacted with the nonhuman world and how their engagements were embedded in premodern gender rules.

This collection will be of great value for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and scholars, in gender and women’s history, environmental history, queenship studies, and early modern studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Broomhall, Susan

Davidson, Clare

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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-Sporzynski

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 Pawlowska-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

Über Autor(innen)

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.