For women at the early modern courts, clothing and jewellery were essential elements in their political arsenal, enabling them to signal their dynastic value, to promote loyalty to their marital court and to advance political agendas. This is the first collection of essays to examine how elite women in early modern Europe marshalled clothing and jewellery for political ends. With essays encompassing women who traversed courts in Denmark, England, France, Germany, Habsburg Austria, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Sweden, the contributions cover a broad range of elite women from different courts and religious backgrounds as well as varying noble ranks.

[Erin Griffey](http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/people/egri016) is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Auckland and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, London. She is a specialist in early modern visual and material culture and has published widely on the Stuart court. Her book, *On Display: Henrietta Maria and the Materials of Magnificence at the Stuart Court*, was published by Yale University Press in 2015.

Introduction Erin Griffey 1 Isabella d'Este's Sartorial Politics Sarah Cockram2 Dressing the Queen at the French Renaissance Court Isabelle Paresys3 Dressing the Bride: Weddings and Fashion Practices at German Princely Courts in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth CenturyKirsten Frieling4 Lustrous Virtue: Eleanor of Austria's Jewels and Gems as Composite Cultural Identity and Affective Maternal Agency Lisa Mansfield5 Queen Elizabeth: 'studded with costly jewellery'Susan Vincent6 A 'Cipher of A and C set on the one Syde with diamonds': Anna of Denmark's Jewellery and the Politics of Dynastic DisplayJemma Field7 'She bears a duke's revenues on her back': Fashioning Shakespeare's Women at CourtRobert I. Lublin8 How to Dress a Female King: Manifestations of Gender and Power in the Wardrobe of Christina of SwedenJulia Holm9 Clothes Make the Queen: The Clothing of Mariana of Austria from Archduchess to Consort Laura Oliván Santaliestra10 'The best of Queens, the most obedient wife': Fashioning a Place for Catherine of Braganza as Consort to Charles IIMaria Hayward11 Chintz, China and Chocolate: The Politics of Fashion at Charles II's Court Juliet Claxton and Evelyn Welch12 Henrietta Maria and the Politics of Widows' Dress at the Early Modern CourtErin GriffeyBibliographyIndex