Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe

1. Introduction to Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe: The Roles of Powerful Women and Queens
Nate Probasco, Estelle Paranque, Claire Jowitt

Part I. Demonstration of Power

2. Mary I, Mary of Guise and the Strong Hand of the Scots: Marian Policy in Ulster and Anglo-Scottish Diplomacy, 1553–1558
Jonathan Woods

3. Catherine de Medici and Huguenot Colonization, 1560–1567
Nate Probasco

4. Isabel Clara Eugenia, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands: Trade, Politics, and Warfare, Ruling like a King 1621–1633
Estelle Paranque

Part II. Diplomatic Strategies

5. Caterina Cornaro and the Colonization of Cyprus
Lisa Hopkins

6. Trade and Piracy: The Role of a Potential Queen Consort in the 1620s
Valentina Caldari

7. “The Princesses’ Representative” or Renegade Entrepreneur? Marie Petit, the Silk Trade, and Franco-Persian Diplomacy
Junko Thérèse Takeda

Part III. Exotic Encounters

8. “I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys”: Turquoise, Queenship‚ and the Exotic
Carole Levin, Cassandra Auble

9. A Vision on Queen Elizabeth’s Role in Colonizing America: Stephen Parmenius’s De Navigatione (1582)
Erzsébet Stróbl

10. Captains, Kings, Queens: Politics, Piracy, and the Sea in Middleton’s The Phoenix (c.1603–04)
Claire Jowitt

Keywords: History, History of Early Modern Europe, Imperialism and Colonialism, Politics and Gender, History of Britain and Ireland, Social History