Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics, c.1500-1800

We are delighted to share the cover picture and contents of the project’s forthcoming volume, which is being published by Routledge and will be available from September 2016.

Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics, c.1500-1800

Edited by Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly and Adam Morton

1. Introduction: Politics, Culture and Queens Consort
   Adam Morton
    
2. Art Collections as Dynastic Tool: The Jagiellonian Princesses Katarzyna, Queen of Sweden, and Zofia, Duchess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
   Almut Bues
    
3. The Consort in the Theatre of Power: Maria Amalia of Saxony, Queen of the Two Sicilies, Queen of Spain
   Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly
    
4. 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
    
5. Luise Ulrike of Prussia, Queen of Sweden, and the Search for Political Space
   Elise Dermineur and Svante Norrhem
    
6. Marriage in a Global Context: Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland
   Clarissa Campbell Orr
    
7. Dynastic Positioning and Political Newsgathering: Hedwig Eleonora of Schleswig-Gottorf, Queen of Sweden, and her Correspondence
   Jill Bepler
    
8. Becoming a Stuart Queen Consort: Nuptial texts for Henrietta Maria of France and Catherine of Braganza, Queens of Britain
   Anna-Marie Linnell
    
9. Sanctity and Suspicion: Catholicism, Conspiracy and the Representation of Henrietta Maria of France and Catherine of Braganza, Queens of Britain
   Adam Morton
    
10. Four Weddings and Five Funerals: Dynastic Integration and Cultural Transfer between the Houses of Braunschweig and Brandenburg in the Eighteenth Century
    Thomas Biskup
     
11. Afterword: Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics
    Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly
     

20 colour and black and white illustrations