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Dr. Elena (Ellie) Woodacre is a specialist in medieval and Early Modern queenship and a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern European History at the University of Winchester. Her publications include her monograph The Queens Regnant of Navarre; Succession, Politics and Partnership (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and she has edited/co-edited several collections including, Queenship in the Mediterranean (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), The Image and Perception of Monarchy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge Scholars, 2014), Royal Mothers and their Ruling Children (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Virtuous or Villainess? The Image of the Royal Mother from the Early Medieval to the Early Modern Eras (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), A Companion to Global Queenship (ARC Medieval Press, 2018), Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and is the lead editor of History of Monarchy (Routledge). She is currently developing a monograph on Joan of Navarre and a short work on the historiography of queenship studies. Elena is the organizer of the ‘Kings & Queens’ conference series and the founder of the international Royal Studies Network (www.royalstudiesnetwork.org), a resource which aims to bring together scholars who work on monarchical topics. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Studies Journal (www.rsj.winchester.ac.uk ), an academic, peer-reviewed, multi-lingual and fully open-access publication which was launched in 2014. In addition, she is the lead editor of ARC Humanities Press’ Gender and Power in the Premodern Era book series: https://arc-humanities.org/our-series/arc/gender-and-power-in-the-premodern-world/ Academia.edu page: https://winchester.academia.edu/ElenaEllieWoodacre Winchester page: https://www.winchester.ac.uk/about-us/leadership-and-governance/staff-directory/staff-profiles/woodacre.php

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Early modern Italy, political, cultural and ecclesiastical history

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I study queens and queenship, primarily in the twelfth-century, but I am currently at work on a project looking at conversion area queens, both actually queens involved in conversion activities, and depictions of queens in miracles stories and hagiography.

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Section Editors

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France

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Classical history (with a focus on Rome), Carolingian Renaissance

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Early/High Middle Ages

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Extra-European

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Late medieval/early modern British history, gender history

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High/Late Medieval Britain

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Late EM/Modern (18th c)

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Late medieval Iberia, gender history, religious history

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Medieval/early modern Europe, gender history, political history

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Early modern, Northern Europe, political culture/thought, kingship

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I hold an MA in early modern history from King's College, London after graduating earlier this year. I am an all round lover of the sixteenth and seventeenth century but have a particular passion for courtly life. I am fascinated by how a person's whole career could be made or broken at the will of the monarch, or their experience could be shaped by their gender, race, or upbringing. The mind simply boggles! I always find myself wanting, needing, to know more about the brilliant melting pots of the early modern courts, the people that inhabited them and the monarchs at the centre of the action.

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Caroline Fleischauer received her MA in Literature from the University of Wyoming in 2019. Her thesis focused on women's erotic agency in French Arthurian legend. Currently, she is pursing an MFA in creative nonfiction at the University of Wyoming. Her other research interests include feminist theory, trauma, affect, the role of bodies, and Mary Queen of Scots.

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Postdoctoral researcher specializing in fourteenth-century France (especially Brittany, Normandy, and Languedoc), with a focus on princes and lordship, power, succession, and reputation.

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I hold a PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where I studied with Dr. Carole Levin. I specialize in early modern British history and have interests in contemporary popular culture, theatre, and queenship. I've been published in the Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare's Queens, with a chapter on Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn in English and Spanish plays and in Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France, with a chapter on the evolving image of Marie Antoinette in popular culture throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. I have several chapters forthcoming, one on how sixteenth century chronicles portray Mary I at her accession, another on Mary and Lady Jane Grey's theatrical afterlives, and a biographical essay focusing on Katherine of Aragon in the English Consorts series. I also have a podcast - History Pop - which examines the uses of history in pop culture works.

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Cinzia Recca is lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Catania in the Department of Education. She has also participated in masters and teaching activities, as a visiting professor, at the Rey Juan Carlos and Complutense Universities of Madrid. She is a member and collaborates in the editorial committees of the Italian society of early modernist historians Sisem and the Italian society SISSd on Eighteenth-century research, she is also a member of the international Royal Studies Network and collaborates with the Royal Studies Journal. Her main field of research includes the European Enlightenment, especially with regard to court studies and women's roles. In recent years, she has initiated a demanding research activity focused on the figure of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples through the analysis of unpublished sources (diary and correspondence). She is the author of several articles in national and international scientific journals and books. Her recent publications include The diary of Maria Carolina of Naples, 1781-1785. New evidence d Queenship at Court, Palgrave McMillan, 2017; "The eagle eye of the Habsburg family on the Kingdom of Naples: “Lights and shadows of Maria Carolina at Court" in V. Schutte & E. Paranque. Forgotten Queens in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Political, Agency, Myth-making, and Patronage. London- New York: Routledge, (2019). "The reversal of dynasties during the Bourbon era in the Kingdom of Naples." in A.M. Rodrigues, M. Santos Silva, J. Spangler (eds), Dynastic change Legitimacy and Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy, London - New York: Routledge, (2020); “La Sicilia Borbonica nelle note diaristiche di una viaggiatrice inglese: Ellis Cornelia Knight (1798-1800)” in Viaggiare nel Mediterraneo tra antico e moderno, a cura di Albana M., Arena G., Frasca E., Recca C. e Soraci C., Edipuglia 2021; “Nobility and virtuosity of Sicilian women between daily life and erudition in the late eighteenth century” in Studies on the Idea of Excellence in Europe (15th–18th Centuries) Virtus Vera Nobilitas Est, edited by José Antonio Guillén Berrendero - Gijs Versteegen, Peter Lang 2021, ISBN 9783631858189; “L’epidemia vaiolosa in Sicilia tra Sette e Ottocento. Aspetti assistenziali e organizzativi dell’emergenza sanitaria” in Libera nos a cura di Lina Scalisi, Roma Viella 2022

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I am a graduate student specializing in queenship studies in medieval and early modern England. My MA work at Marquette University looked at the intersection of power, motherhood, and ideals for fourteenth-century queens, particularly Isabella of France, Queen of England. My Ph.D. work examines the power and agency of Mary of Modena, queen to James II in the seventeenth century.

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Historian of modern Germany with a particular focus on nineteenth and twentieth century monarchy. Completed Ph.D. at the University of St Andrews entitled 'Twilight of the princes: The fall and afterlife of monarchy in southern Germany, 1918-1934'.

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PhD Student studying the lands of fourteenth-century English queens.

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I hold a PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where I studied with Dr. Carole Levin. I specialize in early modern British history and have interests in contemporary popular culture, theatre, and queenship. I've been published in the Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare's Queens, with a chapter on Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn in English and Spanish plays and in Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France, with a chapter on the evolving image of Marie Antoinette in popular culture throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. I have several chapters forthcoming, one on how sixteenth century chronicles portray Mary I at her accession, another on Mary and Lady Jane Grey's theatrical afterlives, and a biographical essay focusing on Katherine of Aragon in the English Consorts series. I also have a podcast - History Pop - which examines the uses of history in pop culture works.

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Valerie Schutte is an independent scholar specializing in the Tudor monarchs and their books.

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I am a graduate student specializing in queenship studies in medieval and early modern England. My MA work at Marquette University looked at the intersection of power, motherhood, and ideals for fourteenth-century queens, particularly Isabella of France, Queen of England. My Ph.D. work examines the power and agency of Mary of Modena, queen to James II in the seventeenth century.

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Illustrations Editor

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