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We are delighted to announce that the project’s first volume has gone to press:
Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics 1550-1750, edited by Adam Morton (Newcastle University) and Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly (University of Oxford).
It will be published by Routledge who have taken over Ashgate Publishing and is due to appear in autumn 2016.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Politics, Culture and Queens Consort
Adam Morton - Art Collections as Dynastic Tool: The Jagiellonian Princesses Katarzyna, Queen of Sweden, and Zofia, Duchess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
Almut Bues - The Consort in the Theatre of Power: Maria Amalia of Saxony, Queen of the Two Sicilies, Queen of Spain
Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly - The ‘Two Bodies’ of the Female Sovereign: Awkward Hierarchies in Images of Empress Maria Theresia, Catherine the Great of Russia and their Male Consorts
Christina Strunck - Luise Ulrike of Prussia, Queen of Sweden, and the Search for Political Space
Elise Dermineur and Svante Norrhem - Marriage in a Global Context: Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland
Clarissa Campbell Orr - Dynastic Positioning and Political Newsgathering: Hedwig Eleonora of Schleswig-Gottorf, Queen of Sweden, and her Correspondence
Jill Bepler - Greeting the Stuart Queens Consort: Cultural Exchange and the nuptial texts for Henrietta Maria of France and Catherine of Braganza, Queens of Britain
Anna-Marie Linnell - Sanctity and Suspicion: Catholicism, Conspiracy and the Representation of Henrietta Maria of France and Catherine of Braganza, Queens of Britain
Adam Morton - Four Weddings and Five Funerals: Dynastic Integration and Cultural Transfer between the Houses of Braunschweig and Brandenburg in the Eighteenth Century
Thomas Biskup - Afterword: Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics
Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly
