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

Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly is Professor of German Literature at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. Among her books are Court Culture in Dresden from Renaissance to Baroque (2002) and, most recently, Beauty or Beast? The Woman Warrior in the German Imagination from the Renaissance to the Present (2010). Adam Morton is Lecturer in British History at Newcastle University. He is the editor of Getting Along? Religious Identities and Confessional Relations in Early Modern England (2012) and Illustrated Religious Texts in the North of Europe 1500-1800 (2014).

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Introduction: Politics, Culture and Queens Consort
Adam Morton




Art Collections as Dynastic Tool: The Jagiellonian Princesses Katarzyna, Queen of Sweden, and Zofia, Duchess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
Almut Bues




The Consort in the Theatre of Power: Maria Amalia of Saxony, Queen of the Two Sicilies, Queen of Spain
Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly




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




Luise Ulrike of Prussia, Queen of Sweden, and the Search for Political Space
Elise Dermineur and Svante Norrhem




Marriage in a Global Context: Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland
Clarissa Campbell Orr




Dynastic Positioning and Political Newsgathering: Hedwig Eleonora of Schleswig-Gottorf, Queen of Sweden, and her Correspondence
Jill Bepler




Greeting the Stuart Queens Consort: Cultural Exchange and the nuptial texts for Henrietta Maria of France and Catherine of Braganza, Queens of Britain
Anna-Marie Linnell




Sanctity and Suspicion: Catholicism, Conspiracy and the Representation of Henrietta Maria of France and Catherine of Braganza, Queens of Britain
Adam Morton




Four Weddings and Five Funerals: Dynastic Integration and Cultural Transfer between the Houses of Braunschweig and Brandenburg in the Eighteenth Century
Thomas Biskup




Afterword: Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics

Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly

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