Queens Consort and European Identities 1500-1800

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Jill Bepler Interview in the Journal of the German Historians' Association
Jill Bepler Interview in the Journal of the German Historians' Association

Dr Jill Bepler recently gave an interview in the Journal of the German Historians’ Association in July 2017 which

Gender and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Sweden
Book: 'Gender and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Sweden
A new book by Marrying Cultures member Elise Dermineur has been published by Routledge and was written as a result of her work on the project.
Frictions and Failures - Cultural Encounters in Crisis
Frictions and Failures - Cultural Encounters in Crisis

’Frictions and Failures - Cultural Encounters in Crisis’, ed. by Almut Bues, presents the papers of the third Marrying Cultures workshop, which focused on dynastic marriages which ran into difficulties and examined a wide range of cases in order to determine what caused these problems.

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Music for Consorts

The historical music ensemble Bella Discordia, featuring Marrying Cultures project member Maria Skiba, have released a CD of the music of Italian composer Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677).

La Virtuosissima includes Donna Di Maestà which was written for the marriage of Eleonora Gonzaga of Mantua (1630-1686) to Ferdinand III (1608-1657), Holy Roman Emperor, and is believed to be the second ever performance of the piece.

Bella Discordia have kindly allowed us to include Donna Di Maestà; and their CD is available to buy from asinamusic.com.

 
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Om Marrying Cultures

Marrying Cultures är ett treårigt forskningsprojekt finansierat av HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area), som studerar kvinnliga kungliga gemålers betydelse för kulturöverföring (cultural transfer). Projektet arbetar med fallstudier av de polska prinsessorna Katarina Jagellonica, hertiginna av Finland och drottning av Sverige (1526-83), och Sofia Jagellonika, hertiginna av Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1464-1512); de tyska prinsessorna Hedvig Eleonora av Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp, drottning av Sverige (1636-1715), och Charlotte Amalie av Hessen-Kassel, drottning av Danmark (1650-1714); den portugisiska prinsessan Katarina av Bragança, drottning av Storbritannien (1638-1705); Maria Amalia av Sachsen, drottning av Bägge Sicilierna och Spanien (1724-1760); samt Lovisa Ulrika av Preussen, drottning av Sverige (1720-82).

Projektets forskare arbetar tillsammans med experter från kungliga samlingar, muséer och bibliotek (Kensington Palace, Victoria and Albert Museum och National Portrait Gallery, London; Livrustkammaren, Stockholm; Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, och det Nationalmuséet för polsk historia, Warzawa), för att undersöka varför somliga kungliga gemåler har blivit en del av ett nationellt kulturellt minne, medan andra inte blivit det.

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Leaflet from the marriage of Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza
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