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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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Proofreading Editor

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Chief Copyeditor and Production

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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 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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I am a recent graduate of the Australian National University with a passion for Medieval Studies. My primary research interest is medieval queenship and in the final year of my studies I compiled an original research project titled 'Queen Regnant of Victim of Patriarchy: Melisende of Jerusalem'. Upon graduation, I had the opportunity to work at the Australian War Memorial assisting with the care and preservation of collection material. I thoroughly enjoyed this position and it has affirmed my desire to pursue an academic career. To this end, I will commence a Master of Arts in History at KU Leuven in Belgium in September 2021. In the meantime, I am working as a Customer Experience Advisor for Hitachi Capital Consumer Finance. I am delighted to join the team at the Royal Studies Journal as a volunteer Layout Editor.

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PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews investigating the processes and experiences of regional de-monarchification in inter-war Germany.

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

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Book Review Editor

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Editorial Assistant

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Lead Technical Editor

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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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