The series is divided into three sub-strands: Queens of England (blue), Queens and Empresses of Europe (purple), and Royal Women of the World (red). These biographies include a deep engagement with the premise of queenship studies and the exercise of the queen’s office (or equivalent), in addition to covering the lives of particular women. Lives of Royal Women Series Editors:- Elena Woodacre, Louise Wilkinson, This series features academic, yet accessible biographies of royal women – consorts, dowagers, royal mothers, and female sovereigns – inclusive of all periods, cultures and geographic regions. He has published on the diplomacy and courts of the Habsburgs, including Baltasar de Zúñiga, una encrucijada de la Monarquía hispana (2012) and (with Alexander Koller) A Europe of Courts, a Europe of Factions (2017). Rubén González Cuerva is Permanent Scientist at the CSIC, Madrid. With chronological chapters discussing Empress Maria’s roles such as infanta, regent, Empress, and a widow, this volume is the perfect resource for scholars and students interested in the history of gender, court culture, and early modern Central Europe. Her unique intertwining of roles and positions allows a fresh approach to female agency and the discussion of current issues: the rules of dynastic entente, the negotiation of discreet political roles for royal women, the reassessment of informal diplomacy, and the creation of dynastic networks parallel to the embassies. Empress Maria encapsulates the complex dynastic functioning of the Habsburgs: devotedly married to her cousin Maximilian II, Maria had constant communication with her father Charles V and her brother Philip II while preserving her Spanish background. ![]() The volume traces the path of a Castilian orphan infanta, raised among her mother’s Portuguese ladies-in-waiting and who spent thirty years of marriage between the imperial courts of Prague and Vienna. This book explores her life, actions, and management of domestic affairs, which became a feared example of how an Empress could control alternative spheres of power. MARIA OF AUSTRIA, HOLY ROMAN EMPRESS (1528–1603) Maria of Austria was one of the longest surviving Renaissance Empresses but until now has received little attention by biographers. ![]() Table of contents : Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures Preface List of abbreviations Introduction 1 Infanta Maria: a discreet childhood (1528–1539) 2 The orphan learning at court (1539–1548) 2.1 Places and people 2.2 Education and spirituality 2.3 Authority and its limits 3 The exercise of authority: marriage and the Iberian regency (1548–1551) 3.1 Negotiating a life in common 3.2 A household of her own 3.3 Maria of Austria, sole governor 4 The Queen of Bohemia fighting for her own space (1552–1564) 4.1 Failed cultural adaptation 4.2 A household of her own 4.3 Ambassadors, ladies, and chaplains 4.4 A space for decisions: forming a Catholic family 5 Empress consort, discreet mediator (1564–1576) 5.1 Communications: spaces, agents, modalities 5.2 The family: dynasty and confession 5.3 Negotiating activity 6 The uncertain role of the dowager empress (1576–1581) 6.1 Widowhood, hope, and melancholy 6.2 Solitude and crisis 6.3 Maria and the ambassador Borja: politics and patronage 7 Establishing an imperial household in Madrid (1581–1587) 7.1 The return journey 7.2 To govern or to retire? 7.3 The palace in the monastery 7.4 The establishment of the imperial household 8 The empress without an empire and the dynastic turn (1587–1598) 8.1 An alternative patroness? Court and piety 8.2 The problems of Matthias, Maximilian, and Rudolf 8.3 The dynastic turn 9 New opportunities? The reign of Philip III (1598–1603) 9.1 High expectations (1598–1599) 9.2 The itinerant court and the move to Valladolid 9.3 The empress’s household and council: the last stronghold 9.4 Death, heritage, posterity Conclusions Dynastic mediator Confessional agent Cultural and social transfer Sources and bibliography Unprinted primary sources Printed primary sources Secondary sources Index Citation preview
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