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  • In this episode, we have a roundtable with the lead editor and three contributors to the new collection, Notions of Privacy at Early Modern European Courts: Reassessing the Public and Private Divide, 1400-1800 (AUP, 2024). We discuss whether the term 'privacy' is problematic in terms of early modern court life and what expectations monarchs themselves might have had of privacy. If you enjoyed this episode, follow the link above--the book is freely available in Open Access thanks to the Centre for Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

    Guest Bios:

    Dustin M. Neighbors is the project coordinator and a postdoctoral researcher for the EU-Horizon project, Colour4CRAFTS, at the University of Helsinki. His main areas of research are monarchy and court culture, with an emphasis on the performativity of gender, political and material culture, cultural practices and history (i.e., hunting) within sixteenth- and seventeenth century Northern Europe, and the employment of digital research methods.

    Dries Raeymaekers is Assistant Professor of Early Modern History at Radboud University (Nijmegen, the Netherlands). He specializes in the political culture of the early modern period, with particular attention for the history of monarchy, dynastic history, and the history of the court in Western Europe. He has published widely on princely favourites, ladies-in-waiting, and the 'politics of access' at early modern courts, including One Foot in the Palace: the Habsburg Court of Brussels and the Politics of Access in the Reign of Albert and Isabella, 1598-1621 (Leuven UP, 2013), A Constellation of Courts: The Households of Habsburg Europe, 1555-1665 (Leuven UP, 2014) and The Key to Power? The Culture of Access in Princely Courts, 1450-1750 (Brill, 2016).

    Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger is Professor Emerita of Early Modern History at the University of Muenster. Since 2018, she has been Rector of the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study. Her main areas of research include: the political culture of the Holy Roman Empire; social and political symbols, metaphors, rituals, and procedures of the early modern period; and the history of ideas.

    Oskar J. Rojewski is an assistant professor at the University of Silesia and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Privacy Studies of the University of Copenhagen and the University Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid. He studies fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Flemish art and European court rituals, particularly the status of artists, their migration, networks, and relationships with sovereigns.

  • This episode features a new book series 'Monarchy, History and Culture' at AUP. The series seeks to publish studies on monarchy, both individual and comparative, from the ancient world to the French Revolution. In this episode, we interview two of the series editors to discuss what kind of work they are hoping to feature and tips for authors who would like to publish their work in the new series.

    Guest Bios:

    Erika Gaffney is an acquisitions editor for the AUP. She is also the Founder of the Art Herstory project, to recover the lives and works of historic women artists. Follow Erika on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Bluesky and/or Academia.edu.

    Aidan Norrie is Lecturer in History and Literature and the Programme Leader of the BA (Hons) English and History Studies degree at the University Campus North Lincolnshire. They are the Managing Editor of The London Journal, the author of Elizabeth I and the Old Testament: Biblical Analogies and Providential Rule (2023), and the co-editor of the English Consorts collection (2022) and Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe (2019).

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  • Today’s episode celebrates the publication of Floral Culture and the Tudor and Stuart Courts, ed. Susannah Lyon-Whaley (Amsterdam University Press, 2024).

    These interdisciplinary essays engage with flowers as real, artificial, and represented objects across the Tudor and Stuart courts in gardens, literature, painting, interior furnishing, garments, and as jewels, medicine, and food. If the rose operated as a particularly English lingua franca of royal power across two dynasties, this volume sheds light on an array of wild and garden flowers to offer an immersive picture of how the Tudor and Stuart courts lived and functioned, styled and displayed themselves through flowers.

    Speaker Biographies:

    Eleri Lynn is a fashion and textiles historian and curator. She is the author of several monographs including Tudor Fashion (Yale University Press, 2017, winner of the Historians of British Art Prize), and Tudor Textiles (Yale University Press, 2020). Eleri is the curator of several major exhibitions including The Lost Dress of Elizabeth I (Hampton Court Palace, 2019).

    Maria Hayward is professor of early modern history at the University of Southampton. She works on material culture at the Tudor and Stuart courts. Her books include Rich Apparel: Clothing and the Law in Henry VIII’s England (2009), and Stuart Style: Monarchy, Dress and the Scottish Male Elite (2021).

    Beverly Lemire is Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair, University of Alberta, Canada and a Member of the Order of Canada. She publishes widely on the gendered and racialised history of fashion, global trade, and material culture (c. 1600–1840) from British, European, colonial, and comparative perspectives. She is co-editor with Christopher Breward and Giorgio Riello of the two-volume Cambridge Global History of Fashion (2023):

    Susan M. Cogan is an Associate Professor of History at Utah State University. Her research focuses on social, religious, and environmental history of late-medieval and early modern England. Her publications include Catholic Social Networks in Early Modern England: Kinship, Gender, and Coexistence (Amsterdam, 2021) and articles on gardens, architecture, antiquarianism, and gender.

    A Floral Recipe to Try at Home:

    ‘A Second Course Dish in the Beginning of the Spring’ aka a floral recipe for ‘dough balls’ or ‘doughnuts’ from William Rabisha, The Whole Body of Cookery (London: 1661), 205.

    Take of Primrose-leaves two handfuls, and boyl them, and scruise the water from them, and mince them small, three Pippins, season it with Cinamon, put to it half a handful of dry floure, and the yolks of eight eggs, only two whites of the same, mingle this together, adding a little Sugar, Cream, and Rose-water, your stuff must be thick that it run not abroad, your pan being hot with clarified Butter, drop them in by less then spoonfuls, and fry them on both sides as crisp as you can, dish them, and scrape on Sugar.

  • In this episode, hosted by Susannah Lyon-Whaley, we have a roundtable highlighting recent research on royal mistresses and the important part they played in the French and English monarchies.

    Guest Biographies:

    Tracy Adams is a professor in European Languages and Literatures at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has also taught at the University of Maryland, the University of Miami, and the University of Lyon III. She was a Eurias Senior Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies 2011-2012, an Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions Distinguished International Visiting Fellow in 2014 and a fellow at the Herzog August Bibliothek fellowship in WolfenbĂŒttel, Germany, in 2016. She is the author of Violent Passions: Managing Love in the Old French Verse Romance (2005), The Life and Afterlife of Isabeau of Bavaria (2010), Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France (2014), AgnĂšs Sorel and the French Monarchy (2022), and Reflections on Extracting Elite Women’s Stories from Medieval and Early Modern French Narrative Sources (2023). With Christine Adams, she co-authored The Creation of the French Royal Mistress from AgnĂšs Sorel to Madame Du Barry (2020). With Charles-Louis Morand-MĂ©tivier, she is co-editor of the volume The Waxing of the Middle Ages (2023).

    Christine Adams is professor of European history at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She publishes primarily in French gender and family history (17th–19th centuries). Author of A Taste for Comfort and Status: A Bourgeois Family in Eighteenth-Century France (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000) and Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood: Maternal Society in Nineteenth-Century France (University of Illinois Press, 2010), her most recent book, with Tracy Adams, is The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnùs Sorel to Madame Du Barry (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020). Adams was a 2020–2021 fellow with the American Council of Learned Societies and a spring 2021 Andrew W. Mellon long-term fellow at the Newberry Library, where she worked on her current book project on The Merveilleuses and their Impact on the French Social Imaginary, 1794–1799 and Beyond. She also writes frequently on current events, including politics, education, gender, and reproductive rights.

    Mirabelle is a PhD student in Art History at the University of Auckland. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the visual representation of Maria Fitzherbert (1756-1837), through the lenses of celebrity culture, erotic capital, and female reputation. Maria was the mistress, and illegal wife, of King George IV of England (1762-1830). Mirabelle completed her Master of Arts with First Class Honours in Art History in 2021. Her thesis examined the relationship between portraiture, gender, and sexuality at the Restoration Court, focusing on two of the royal mistresses of Charles II (1630-1685), Louise de KĂ©roualle (1649-1734) and Barbara Villiers (1640-1709). In 2019 she received her BA(Hons) with First Class Honours in Art History. Upon completion of her Bachelor of Arts degree, double majoring in Art History and Classical Studies, she was awarded the Louise Perkins Prize as the top graduating student in Art History.

    Further reading:

    Tracy Adams. AgnĂšs Sorel and the French Monarchy: History, Gallantry, and National Identity. ARC Humanities Press, 2022.
    https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781641893527/agnes-sorel-and-the-french-monarchy/

    Tracy Adams and Christine Adams. The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From AgnĂšs Sorel to Madame Du Barry. Penn State University Press, 2020.

  • We are back with Part 2 of our feature on 'Young Queens', featuring Dr Nicola Tallis and her new book, Young Elizabeth! In this interview we discuss how important it is to examine Elizabeth's childhood in order to understand the great queen that she became. As a point of connection with the interview with Leah Chang on her Young Queens book, we discuss some of those same challenges that young royal women faced and new ways to approach well-known queens like Elizabeth I.

    Guest Bio:
    Nicola graduated from Bath Spa University with a first class BA Hons. degree in History in 2011, and from Royal Holloway College, University of London in 2013 with an MA in Public History. She did her PhD at the University of Winchester--her thesis titled ‘All the Queen’s Jewels, 1445-1548’, examined the jewellery collections of the queens of the Wars of the Roses and the early Tudor queens, and the role of jewels during this period (see links below to the book she published based on her doctoral research).

    Nicola has had a varied career in the history and heritage sector working with Hampton Court Palace, the National Trust and as the curator at Sudeley Castle. Additionally, since 2013 she has been one of the resident historians for Alison Weir Tours. Nicola has written for a number of history magazines, including BBC History Magazine, History Revealed and Explore. She's also made numerous television and radio appearances, including Frankie Boyle’s Farewell to the Monarchy (Channel 4), Who Do You Think You Are? (BBC), The Gunpowder Plot (Channel 5), and The Vikings (Channel 5).

    Find out more about Nicola and her publications:

    Nicola's websiteCrown of Blood: Lady Jane GreyUncrowned Queen: Margaret BeaufortElizabeth’s Rival: Lettice KnollysAll the Queen’s JewelsYoung Elizabeth
  • We open 2024 with a two-part feature on Young Queens, featuring two new books which look at young royal women in 16th century Europe. Our first interview is with Leah Redmond Chang, author of Young Queens (Bloomsbury, 2023). In this episode we talk about the three women featured in her book (Catherine de Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary Queen of Scots), why it's important to look at 'young queens' and the particular challenges they faced as young women and royal brides.

    Guest Bio: Leah Redmond Chang is a former Associate Professor of French and Director of the French Literature Programme at George Washington University, and was most recently a Senior Research Associate at University College London.

    She is the author of two previous books: Into Print: The Production of Female Authorship in Early Modern France and Portraits of the Queen Mother: Polemics, Panegyrics, Letters, winner of the Josephine Roberts Award from the International Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. Find out more about Leah at her website.

    Keep your eyes out for Part 2 in our Young Queens feature, an interview with Nicola Tallis about her new book, Young Elizabeth, coming soon!

  • This episode features Dr James Taffe speaking with Dr Johanna Strong about his latest publication, Christmas with the Tudors, out now! They discuss the book more generally as well as Christmas traditions of the Twelve Days of Christmas, gifts, and the role of queens in celebrations.

    To buy Christmas with the Tudors, head to Amazon UK, Amazon USA, Amazon Australia, or Amazon Canada (to name but a few!).

    If you know of any other references to Tudor Christmas celebrations, James would love to hear from you! You can find him on Twitter here.

  • This episode, we are joined by Dr Valerie Schutte for a conversation about her forthcoming Royal Studies Journal Cluster, due for publication next month.

    Valerie Schutte has published widely on royal Tudor women, book dedications, and queenship. She has published two monographs: Mary I and the Art of Book Dedications: Royal Women, Power, and Persuasion (2015) and Princesses Mary and Elizabeth Tudor and the Gift Book Exchange (2021). She has also edited or co-edited seven volumes on Mary I, Shakespeare, and queenship. Her most recent edited collection - Mid-Tudor Queenship and Memory: The Making and Remaking of Lady Jane Grey and Mary I - was published in Palgrave Macmillan's Queenship and Power series in September 2023. Other recent publications include: "Defending the Faith: Johann Slotan and Queen Mary I" in the Journal of the Early Book Society and "Anne of Cleves: Bound for England" in Royal Journeys in Early Modern Europe: Progresses, Palaces and Panache, edited by Anthony Musson and J.P.D. Cooper. Valerie is currently editing two other volumes, one on Tudor monarchs and myths, and the other on Mary I and humanism. She is also writing a cultural biography of Anne of Cleves. Valerie also has a forthcoming essay on 500 years of reprints of Juan Luis Vives's Instruction of a Christian Woman, that will be published this winter in the Journal of the Early Book Society.

    For more on Dr Schutte's research, follow her on Instagram and at her website.

    The Winter 2023 RSJ Cluster (in issue 10.2 to be released in December 2023) contains the following articles:

    The Sexualization Of a “Noble and Vertuous Quene”: Elizabeth of York, 1466-1503: William B. Robison Questioning an Honest Queen: The Scrutiny Around Queen Catherine of Aragon's Virginity: Emma Luisa Cahill Marrón “This Dolorous Chance”: Contemporary Views on Catherine of Aragon’s Pregnancy Losses: Caroline Armbruster Visualising Sexuality and Maternity in the Royal Entries of Mary Tudor (1514) and Anne Boleyn (1533): Charlotte Samways Sexuality and Grace, Grazia: What made Anne Boleyn so special?: Tracy Adams Bodies in Competition: Italian Descriptions of Sexuality, Fertility, and Beauty in the King’s Great Matter: Samantha PerezDiplomatic Presentations of Queen Mary I’s 1555 Pregnancy: Ailish Girling & Valerie Schutte
  • Later Stuart Queens, 1660–1735: Religion, Political Culture, and Patronage (edited by Eilish Gregory and Michael Questier) is part of Palgrave Macmillan’s Queenship and Power series and seeks to re-insert queens into the mainstream of Stuart and early Georgian studies. It will be published in December 2023.

    Today we are speaking with Dr. Eilish Gregory about the release of this volume. Eilish is the Little Company of Mary Fellow in the History of Catholicism at the Centre for Catholic Studies at Durham University. Her research mainly focuses on early modern religion, politics, and culture, particularly on Catholicism in early modern Britain. Her monograph Catholics during the English Revolution, 1642-1660 (Boydell) was published in 2021 and she has written articles and book chapters on Queen Catherine of Braganza.

    Make sure you check out Eilish’s article in Parliamentary History on Catherine of Braganza and the Popish Plot: Gregory, Eilish. ‘Catherine of Braganza during the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis: Anti‐Catholicism in the Houses of Commons and Lords, 1678–81.’ Parliamentary History 42, no. 2 (2023): 195-212.

  • This podcast shines a spotlight on three items of dress in the V&A collections with a courtly or royal theme. Susan North, Curator of Fashion 1550-1800 at the Victoria & Albert Museum, speaks about their style, materials, where and when they would have been worn, and caring for them.

    In this podcast, we discuss: A resplendently embroidered mantua, 1740-1745, A shimmering, spangled waistcoat, 1775-1780, A floral court suit, 1790-1800


    Susan is the Curator of Fashion before 1800 at the Victoria and Albert Museum and contributor of a chapter on flowers in the dress and jewellery of men and women in the upcoming book Floral Culture and the Tudor and Stuart Courts, edited by Susannah Lyon-Whaley (Amsterdam University Press, forthcoming).

    Her other publications include 18th-Century Fashion in Detail and Sweet and clean?: Bodies and Clothes in Early Modern England (Oxford University Press, 2020).

  • Sarah A. Bendall is a material culture and gender historian at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, ACU. Her first book, Shaping Femininity, was published with Bloomsbury in 2021. It was shortlisted for the Society of Renaissance Studies (UK) biannual book prize in 2022 and awarded highly commended. She is co-investigator on the AHRC-funded Making Historical Dress Network with Dr Serena Dyer (De Montfort University) examining recreating dress. She’s also examining the widespread use of whaling products in fashion between the years 1500-1800.

    Her second book, The Women Who Clothed the Stuart Queens, which she is talking about today, uncovers the lives and work of the women who made, sold, managed and cared for the clothing of the Stuart queens between the years 1603 and 1714.

    Check out her website: https://sarahabendall.com/, where you will find blog posts and tutorials that feature her research and experimental reconstructions!

  • Dr. Erin Griffey is a specialist in early modern visual and material culture at the University of Auckland and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. She has published widely on court culture, especially the early seventeenth-century British queen Henrietta Maria and the Stuart court. She has written On Display: Henrietta Maria and the Materials of Magnificence (Yale University Press, 2015) and her forthcoming work includes chapters on beauty in the forthcoming Bloomsbury Cultural History of Beauty. She won the Renaissance Studies Article Prize for her article 'The Rose and Lily Queen: Henrietta Maria's Fair Face and the Power of Beauty at the Stuart Court' (2022). She is writing a book titled Facing Decay: Beauty, Wrinkles and Anti-Aging in Early Modern Europe, (Penn State University Press, forthcoming) and she is also collaborating with colleagues in Chemistry on the Beautiful Chemistry Project in recreating a selection of early modern cosmetic recipes in the lab.


    Erin’s work:

    You can find out more about Erin and her team’s recreation of recipes at https://www.beautifulchemistryproject.com/

    For her article on Henrietta Maria and beauty: Griffey, E. (2021). ‘“The Rose and Lily Queen”: Henrietta Maria’s fair face and the power of beauty at the Stuart court.’ Renaissance Studies, 35(5), 811-836.

    For a general introduction to beauty at court, see Griffey, E. (2022). ‘Beauty.’ In Erin Griffey (ed.), Early Modern Court Culture. Routledge.

    Keep an eye out for Erin’s forthcoming work on beauty:

    Griffey, E. (forthcoming). ‘Beautiful Experiments: Reading and Reconstructing Early Modern Cosmetic Recipes.’ In Sara Bendall and Serena Dyer (eds.), Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe: The Body, Gender and Material Culture. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

    Griffey, E. (forthcoming). ‘Art and Beauty and ‘Ideas of Beauty’. In Sarah Toulalan (ed.), A Cultural History of Beauty. Bloomsbury.

    Griffey, E. (forthcoming). Facing Decay: Beauty, Wrinkles, and Anti-Aging in Early Modern Europe. Penn State University Press.

    Also check out:

    Burke, Jill. (2023). How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity. Profile Books.

    Forthcoming exhibitions on beauty:

    In Love with Laura: A Mystery in Marble, Kunsthistoriches Museum:

    https://www.tiqets.com/en/KHM-kunsthistorisches-museum-tickets-l141961/in-love-with-laura-a-mystery-in-marble-e46826/

    The Cult of Beauty, The Wellcome Collection:

    https://wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/ZJ1zCxAAACMAczPA

  • In this episode, we interview Professor Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier, the host of the upcoming Kings & Queens 13 conference in May 2024 at The American University of Paris. In this interview, Kathleen tells us all about the inspiration behind the theme "Gift-giving and Communication Networks". We also discuss the conference's commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the death of Queen Claude de France (1499-1524) and why this important but all too often sidelined queen deserves far greater attention.

    Find out more about the plans for Kings & Queens 13 on the conference webpage--the call for papers is currently open with a deadline of 31 October 2023.

    Nota bene from our guest:

    Louise de Savoie was mother of the king, never queen nor queen mother.Louis XII and Anne of Brittany supported Guillaume Briçonnet and Jacques LefĂšvre d’Etaples in their reform of Saint-Germain-des-PrĂ©s in 1513.Claude’s daughter Madeleine de France became queen of Scotland when she was sixteen and died there the year of her marriage (1537). Jacques LefĂšvre d’Etaples wrote a Vocabulaire du Psaultier to teach Latin to Madeleine and her brother Charles, which he published in 1529.Claude’s last child, Marguerite de France, became duchess of Savoy in 1559. Jean HĂ©ritier (Michel de l'HĂŽpital) credits RenĂ©e de France and her niece Marguerite de France with the erection of the tomb of the former chancellor at Champmotteux after his death in 1573.


    Professor Wilson-Chevalier's Work on Claude de France:

    “Claude de France and the Spaces of Agency of a Marginalized Queen”, in Women and Power at the French Court, 1483-1563. Ed. Susan Broomhall. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018, pp. 139-172.

    “From Dissent to Heresy. Queen Claude of France and Her Entourage: Images of Religious Complaint and Evangelical Reform”, in Representing Heresy in Early Modern France. Ed. Lidia Radi and Gabriella Scarlatta Eschrich. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2017, pp. 93-129.

    "Claude de France. La vertu de la littĂ©rature et l’imaginaire d’une princesse vertueuse”, Valeur des lettres Ă  la Renaissance. DĂ©bats et reflĂ©cions sur la vertu de la littĂ©rature, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2016, pp. 43-81.

    "Quelle “trinitĂ© royale” ? Reine, roi, rĂ©gente et sƓur de roi : Claude de France, François Ier, Louise de Savoie et Marguerite de Navarre", in La dame de cƓur . Le patronage religieux des reines et des princesses XIIIe-XVIIe siĂšcle. Ed. Murielle Gaude-Ferragu and CĂ©cile Vincent-Cassy, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2016, pp. 123-136

    “Claude de France: Justice, Power & the Queen as Advocate for Her People”, in Textual and Visual Representations of Power & Justice in Medieval France. Manuscripts and Early Printed Books. Ed. Rosalind Brown-Grant, Anne D. Hedeman, and Bernard RibĂ©mont. Ashgate, 2015, pp. 241-272.

    “Claude de France: In Her Mother’s Likeness, A Queen with Symbolic Clout?”, in The Cultural and Political Legacy of Anne de Bretagne. Negotiating Convention in Books and Documents. Ed Cynthia Brown. Cambridge (U.K.): Boydell and Brewer, 2010, pp. 123-144.

    Edited books:

    Femmes à la cour de France Charges et fonctions (XVe-XIXe siùcle). Ed. with Caroline zum Kolk. Villeneuve d’Ascq : Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2018.

    Patronnes et mĂ©cĂšnes en France Ă  la Renaissance. Ed., with the collaboration of EugĂ©nie Pascal. Saint-Étienne : Publications de l’UniversitĂ© de Saint-Étienne (with the participation of The American University of Paris), 2007.

    Royaume de fémynie : Pouvoirs, contraintes, espaces de liberté des femmes, de la Renaissance à la Fronde. Ed. with Eliane Viennot. Paris : Honoré Champion, 1999.<

  • This episode features an interview with Polly Putnam and Holly Marsden, two of the team responsible for Historic Royal Palaces' innovative 'Crown to Couture' exhibition which is running until 29 October 2023. To find out more about the exhibition, follow this link and most importantly, have a listen to this episode to hear more about the inspiration behind it and the similarities between the royal court and celebrities on the red carpet!

    Guest Bios:
    Polly Putnam is a collections curator at Historic Royal Palaces. She is responsible for the management, research, display and interpretation of collections and displays post 1650 at Hampton Court Palace. She has a particular responsibility for Kew Palace. She has been the curator for numerous projects including the Chocolate Kitchens at Hampton Court and the restoration of the Great Pagoda in Kew Gardens. At Kensington palace, she curated Victoria Woman and Crown which is explored Victoria’s self-fashioning and the intersection of her public role and personal life. She is the lead curator for Crown to Couture. Prior to this she was assistant curator for Leeds Museums and Galleries where she led on numerous restoration projects, displays and exhibitions.

    Holly Marsden is currently completing her PhD through the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme at the University of Winchester and Historic Royal Palaces, having previously studied Queer History for her MA and History of Art for her undergraduate degree. Her thesis examines the multiple identities of Queen Mary II in the context of queenship, culture and politics in the seventeenth century. As part of her PhD, Holly completed a curatorial student placement with Polly Putnam on 'Crown to Couture.' Previous placements also include working in the curatorial team of the Tudor to Regency galleries for the National Portrait Gallery’s ‘Inspiring People’ re-opening project and on Historic Royal Palace's ‘Queer Lives’ immersive theatre tours.

  • This very special episode features Diana Pelaz Flores, guest editor of the current Royal Studies Journal special issue 'The Iberian Queen's Households: Dynamics, Social Strategies and Royal Power' (Vol 10.1, June 2023). Diana is the 'host' of this episode, in conversation with LledĂł Ruiz Domingo and Paula Del Val Vales, who both contributed articles to this issue. We are delighted to have this episode in Spanish--a first for the Royal Studies Podcast!

    Please note: We are aware that there are some minor issues with the audio which could not be completely addressed in the mastering of the episode. We apologise for the less than ideal audio but we hope you will still enjoy listening to this feature.

    Information about our guests:

    Diana Pelaz Flores is Senior Lecturer in the Medieval History at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She was the main researcher of the project “Court feminine spaces: Curial areas, territorial relations and political practices”, granted by the Spanish Government, integrated within the MUNARQAS coordinated project, under the direction by Angela Munoz Fernandez. Her research examined the history of women and power, in particular the Queens consort of the Crown of Castile during the Late Middle Ages. She has several publications, including Rituales Líquidos. El significado del agua en el ceremonial de la Corte de Castilla (ss. XIV-XV) (Murcia: Universidad de Murcia, 2017), La Casa de la Reina en la Corona de Castilla (1418-1496) (Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid, 2017), Poder y representación de la reina en la Corona de Castilla (1418-1496) (Ávila: Junta de Castilla y León, 2017), and Reinas Consortes. Las reinas de Castilla en la Edad Media (siglos XI-XV) (Madrid: Sílex, 2017)).

    Dr. Lledó Ruiz Domingo is postdoctoral researcher of Late Medieval Iberian Queenship at the University of Lisbon (Portugal) and University of Valencia (Spain). Her wider interests focus on political activity of Aragonese consort as co-rulers and partners with their royal husbands, especially during their periods as Lieutenant, using all the King’s powers and authority. She has also focused her analysis on the Queens’ economic resources during the Late Middle Ages. In this sense, she has published a monography “El tresor de la Reina” about the patrimony, income and expenditure of the Aragonese Queens.

    Paula Del Val Vales is a third year PhD student and Associate Lecturer at the University of Lincoln, where she develops her thesis ‘The Queen's Household in the Thirteenth Century: A Comparative Anglo-Iberian Study’. Paula is a Postgraduate Fellow Abroad as her PhD is funded by the La Caixa Foundation, and a member of the research group MUNARQAS. Paula has been on placement at the British Library, within the digitisation project 'Medieval and Renaissance Women', focused on digitising more than 300 documents related to medieval and renaissance women (1100-1600). Through her research she aims to explore the queens’ establishments, resources, revenues, personnel and networks. She is also working on the first ever critical edition of the household and wardrobe accounts of Eleanor of Provence.

  • This episode features an interview with the winner of the Royal Studies Journal 2023 Postgraduate/Early Career Scholar Article Prize. In this interview we'll be discussing her prizewinning article and the disastrous Medici/Habsburg marriage that inspired it!

    Guest Bio: Adriana Concin is the Assistant Curator of Paintings and Drawings at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She completed her doctoral studies at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London in 2021 with a dissertation focused on the 1565 wedding of Francesco I de’ Medici and the Habsburg Archduchess Johanna of Austria and its wider cultural implications. She has been the recipient of several fellowships, including the Eva Schler fellowship at the Medici Archive Project in Florence and the Studia Rudolphina fellowship in Prague at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Adriana has also held the Ayesha Bulchandani graduate internship at the Frick Collection in New York. Her research interests lie in sixteenth-century collecting, cultural exchanges between Tuscany and the Holy Roman Empire, and female patronage networks. In addition to her prize winning article, she has also published on the frescoes of Habsburg cityscapes in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence (Burlington Magazine, 2019).

    Find out more about Adriana and her research here:

    Adriana's website on Habsburg WomenAcademia.edu pageCodart profilePrize winning article: Sadly this article, published in Studia Rudolphina is not available digitally but you can follow this link to find out more about how to access it--in the 2020/21 issue.
  • In this episode, Rob Runacres (University of Winchester) speaks about aspects of his doctoral research on fencing and HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) in early modern European courts and royal education.

    Rob’s two translations from French primary sources are available from Fallen Rook Publishing (https://www.fallenrookpublishing.co.uk/). The Free Master of Arms (1653) can be found here and The Book of Lessons (mid 17th century) can be found here. The latter contains the 71 colour pictures from the manuscript in the Swedish Royal library. There are other authors on the same site.

    You can follow Rob’s research via his Academia.edu page.

    AGEA reproduces a large number of Spanish fencing treatises, including those of Royal fencers, available online here.

    Rob’s latest article was published with Acta Periodica Duellatorum, an open-source HEMA periodical, and is on the Bolognese Tradition (Vol. 10 No. 1 (2022))

    A general introduction to the topic can be found in "The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe" by Sydney Anglo. For French readers, a comparable work is "Croiser le Fer" by Pascal Brioist, Hervé Drévillon and Perre Serna. Much research has moved on from these works, but they remain significant pieces.

    Rob recommends articles by Eric Burkart, Daniel Jaquet, HĂ©lĂšne Leblanc and Iason Tzouriadis and also recommends this huge wiki of fightbooks, with scans or links to scans of originals. Most of the background information is sound but, as per any wiki, relies on contributors.

  • Join us for this episode featuring postgraduate research students Louise Gay and Ashlee Johnson, who speak to Dr Johanna Strong about their research into queens' roles in warfare, conflict, and military life in medieval Europe.

    Louise is a PhD student at the Université Sorbonne Paris Nord examining thirteenth- and fourteenth-century French and English queenship and warfare. Ashlee is a PhD student at the University of Winchester focusing on the 4 Matildas (1066-1152) and their charters.

    You can follow Louise and her research at her Twitter profile. You can also find Ashlee and her research on Twitter here.

  • In this episode we are joined by Nikki Clark and Caroline Dunn to speak about their work on the role of ladies-in-waiting in the medieval and early modern English court. We’ll hear their reflections on how the role changed over time and what life was like for these women as well as their thoughts about Queen Camilla’s decision to eliminate this position in favour of the new post of ‘companions’.

    Dr Nicola Clark is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Chichester. Her first book, Gender, Family, and Politics: The Howard Women, 1485-1558, was published by Oxford University Press in 2018, and she also writes for public audiences, with work featured in History Today and on the History Extra website. She has spoken about her research at events for Historic Royal Palaces, the National Archives, various schools, and academic institutions, and has recently appeared on television as part of the BBC's The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family, and More4's Royal Scandals. Before coming to Chichester, Nicola taught at the University of Winchester and Royal Holloway College, University of London. She has published widely on women’s roles, queenship, the Reformation, and Tudor politics.

    Twitter: @NikkiClark86

    Selected Publications:

    Gender, Family, and Politics: The Howard Women, 1485-1558. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/gender-family-and-politics-9780198784814?cc=gb&lang=en&

    “Queen Katherine Howard: Space and Promiscuity Pre- and Post-Marriage, 1536-1541”, Royal Studies Journal 6.2 (2019), 89-103. https://rsj.winchester.ac.uk/articles/10.21039/rsj.202

    Dr Caroline Dunn is a scholar of medieval Europe with a particular focus on women’s roles and social networks in late medieval England. Her book, Stolen Women in Medieval England: Rape, Abduction, and Adultery c. 1100-1500 (Cambridge, 2012) offers the first comprehensive overview of women’s experiences with ravishment, which ranged from forcible rape to consensual elopement and adultery, during the English Middle Ages. Professor Dunn’s current research explores the lady-in-waiting in medieval England. Examining these highborn serving women reveals the nuances of soft power, social influence, and economic resources wielded by women who lacked official authority within political institutions or patriarchal households. Dr. Dunn teaches upper level courses on medieval women, crusades and conquests, aristocratic society, and preindustrial food at Clemson University. She received the Dean’s award for teaching excellence in 2011 and the John B. and Thelma A. Gentry Award for teaching excellence in the Humanities in 2019. In 2016 Dr. Dunn co-organized the 5th annual Kings and Queens conference, introducing international scholars to Clemson University for the first time that the gathering was held outside of Europe. Dr Dunn was awarded the 2020 Bonnie Wheeler Fellowship to recognize and advance her scholarship.

    Twitter: @SCmedievalist

    Selected Publications:

    “Serving Isabella of France, From Queen Consort to Dowager Queen.” In Elite and Royal Households in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Edited by Theresa Earenfight. Leiden: Brill, 2018.

    "All the Queen’s Ladies: Philippa of Hainault’s Female Attendants." Journal of Medieval Prosopography 31 (2016), 173-208.

    Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty. Edited by Caroline Dunn and Elizabeth Carney. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

  • This episode is the second of two episodes on the history of coronations in England and Britain in connection with the upcoming coronation of King Charles III. In this episode we are talking to Alice Hunt, author of The Drama of Coronation. We’ll be getting her thoughts on the legacy of the medieval and early modern ceremonies on the upcoming coronation and which element of the ritual is the most significant.

    Bio: Dr Alice Hunt is Associate Professor at the University of Southampton. Her research interests include early modern and modern monarchy, ritual and ceremony and queenship as well as the period of English Republic. She is currently completing a book on the period of the English Republic and Oliver Cromwell. The research was supported by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, and the book, England’s Republic: The Lost Decade, 1649–1660, will be published by Faber and Faber. She is also a co-investigator on a major AHRC research project, ‘The Visible Crown: Elizabeth II and the Caribbean, 1952-present’, working with colleagues at City, UCL and the University of the West Indies. This timely project scrutinises the political and cultural significance of the late Queen Elizabeth II and the British Monarchy in the Caribbean countries where the British monarch is still head of state.

    Twitter: @amm_hunt

    Research Project: ‘The Visible Crown: Elizabeth II and the Caribbean, 1952-present’ https://www.visiblecrown.com/#Home-about

    Book: The Drama of Coronation: Medieval Ceremony in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/drama-of-coronation/B63DC86C42DC9CB9CD508A0F155BB1CC

    Other publications of interest: Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9780230111950