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Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 Contributors 11 Acknowledgements 16 Conventions 17 List of Figures and Tables 18 Introductions 20 1 Introduction: rethinking gender and political culture in early modern Europe 22 2 Gender, politics and archives in early modern England 44 Part I Diplomacy, gifts and the politics of exchange 66 3 The gendered power of porcelain among early modern European dynasties 68 4 Diplomats and kin networks: diplomatic strategy and gender in Sweden, 1648–1740 87 Part II Socio-economic structures, gender and politics 106 5 The opportunity to profit from favourable circumstances: a widow’s benefits of holding crown fiefs in Norway in the 1520s 108 6 Regional and family networks: the hidden role of sisters and sisters-in-law 126 7 Widows’ political strategies in traditional communities: negotiating marital status and authority in eighteenth-century France 142 Part III Women and gendered politics at court 160 8 ‘For ye, young men, show a womanish soul, yon maiden a man’s’: perspectives on female monarchy in Elizabeth’s first decade 162 9 Strategies for survival: women at the court of the Medici (1565–1578) 177 Part IV Voting and political represe

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Daybell, James,Norrhem, Svante

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