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1. Introduction2. Bona Sforza and the Realpolitik of Queenly Counsel in Sixteenth-Century Poland-Lithuania3. Between Kings and Emperors: Catherine of Aragon as Counselor and Mediator4. Counselloresses and Court Politics: Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Female Counsel in European Politics, 1509–155. Catherine Jagiellon, Queen Consort of Sweden: Counselling between the Catholic Jagiellons and the Lutheran Vasas6.The Ladies' Peace Revisited: Gender, Counsel and Diplomacy7. Counsel as Performative Practice of Power in Catherine de Medici's Early Regencies8. Mary Stuart and Her Rebels-turned-Privy Councillors: Performance of the Ritual of Counsel9. The Moor's Counsel: Sir Francis Walsingham's Advice to Elizabeth I10. The Queen as the Counselor's Muse: Elizabeth I in The Faerie Queene's Proems11. Reconsidering the Political Role of Anna of Denmark12. Epilogue: "Publica si domini regerent moderamina cunni": Deciphering Queenship and Counsel.