Anne Cruz and Mihoko Suzuki bring a transnational perspective to the study of early modern women rulers and female sovereignty in The Rule of Women in Early Modern Europe (University of Illinois Press, $25). Drawing on early modern literature and historical documents, this study investigates the various political, discursive, and symbolic measures employed to negotiate and support female sovereignty by both early modern writers and the rulers themselves. Features the analysis of well-known sovereigns such as Isabel of Castile and Elizabeth Tudor, as well as other less widely studied figures Isabeau of Bavaria, Jeanne d'Albret, Isabel Clara Eugenia, Juana of Austria, and Catherine of Brandenburg.