Queenship in Europe 1660 1815 : The Role of the Consort

Introduction 1. Maria Giovanna Battista of Savoy-Nemours (1644-1724): daughter, consort and regent of Savoy Robert Oresko 2. Queen Hedwig Eleonora of Sweden: dowager, builder and collector Lis Granlund 3. Partner, matriarch and minister: Mme de Maintenon of France, clandestine consort, 1680-1715 Mark Bryant 4. Piety and Power: the empresses-consort of the high baroque Charles W. Ingrao and Andrew L. Thomas 5. Catherine I of Russia, consort of Peter the Great Lindsey Hughes 6. 'Bá rbara succeeds Elizabeth...': the feminisation and domestication of politics in the Spanish monarchy, 1701-1759 Charles C. Noel 7. Queen Marie Leszczynska and faction at the French court 1725-1768 John Rogister 8. Women and imperial politics: the Wü rttemberg consorts 1674-1757 Peter H. Wilson 9. Religion and the consort: two electresses of Saxony and queens of Poland (1697-1757) Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly 10. Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach and the 'anglicisation' of the house of Hanover Andrew Hanham 11. The hidden queen: Elizabeth Christine of Prussia and Hohernzollern queenship in the eighteenth century Thomas Biskup 12. 'The Pallas of Stockholm': Louisa Ulrica of Prussia and the Swedish crown Marc Serge Riviè re 13. Danish absolutism and queenship: Louisa, Caroline Matilda and Juliana Maria Michael Brengsbo 14. Charlotte, Queen of Great Britain and Electress of Hanover: northern dynasties and the northern republic of letters Clarissa Campbell Orr.