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Post-coffee at #KQ14 w/Session 3.5 Courtiers as Employees? Working Conditions in Early Modern Courts: Marc Jaffré “Strikes, Protests & Petitions: Working Conditions & Redress at Louis XIII’s court” complaints could be perilous for courtiers but king had duty of care to employees

Next in #KQ14 w/Session 3.5 Courtiers as Employees? Working Conditions in Early Modern Courts II: Cordula Bauer “How to run a court w/empty pockets? Outstanding salaries of court servants & evolution of a debt market in 18th c Bavaria” turning notes for unpaid salary into credit

Our last paper at #KQ14 w/Session 3.5 Courtiers as Employees? Working Conditions in Early Modern Courts II: Fabian Persson “Rewarding staying power: Usefulness, uselessness & service at the Swedish court”, increasing number of long serving, aged servants w/impressive job security

Back from lunch at #KQ14 in Session 3.7 Catherine of Braganza: Image, Agency, Faith-1st speaker Chelsea Reutcke ‘The Catholic Patroness of Protestant Britain: Catherine of Braganza’s Support for Popish Printing’ examples of Catherine’s subversive role as patroness Catholic print

Next speaker at #KQ14 in Session 3.7 Catherine of Braganza: Image, Agency, Faith is Eilish Gregory ‘Political Pawn or Political Player? Queen Catherine of Braganza & her Agency in Restoration Britain, 1662-1692’ countering traditional views of Catherine, with her political agency

Last in #KQ14 in Session 3.7 Catherine of Braganza: Image, Agency, Faith an excellent paper from Maria da Conceiçao Emiliano Castel-Branco ‘A Queen coming from Far: Catherine of Braganza in English Restoration Poetry at the crossroads of Anglo-Portuguese & Queenship Studies’

In our last #KQ14 Session 3.11. The Politics of Queenship we began with Lily Feinstein - "Had there been no Queen, there would be no revolution": Gender, Marie Antoinette, and the Politics of Early Modern Queenship, with an interesting perspective from Thomas Jefferson

Then in #KQ14 Session 3.11. The Politics of Queenship we had Lisa Castro - The Political Role of a Queen Consort Josephine of Sweden and Norway During the Last Years of Oscar I's Reign in the late 1850's Diaries of Queen Josephine, a fascinating insight into a little known queen

Finally in #KQ14 Session 3.11. The Politics of Queenship we had a late addition due to travel snafus Jaime Selwood How Shinto creates a controversial legacy in contemporary Japanese emperorship which sparked a lively discussion in the Q&A

And that’s a wrap for #KQ14 —see you in Prague next September for #KQ15 Kings, Queens and Dynasties in Peril! royalstudiesnetwork.org/current-confer…

10 days to go until our next Teaching Medieval Women CPD day at Nottingham! We have an exciting day planned for attendees with talks on medieval women from academics and teachers and a resource design workshop to top it off. Register for free here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/teaching-med…

Home from #KQ14 to find these new arrivals for my queenship library, looking forward to reading these!👸📚

The shrine of St. Wite, a 9th century Saxon holy woman killed by marauding Danes, is inside the Church of St Candida and Holy Cross in Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset. Her remains were (re)discovered back in 1900 when a crack appeared on her tomb revealing an identifying

To whet your appetite ahead of our CPD Day next Monday, one of our speakers, Steve Illingworth, has written a blog post for TMW: teachingmedievalwomen.org/on-teaching-me…

The latest Royal Studies Podcast episode is out! Join Victoria Barlow for her conversation with Susannah Lyon-Whaley about "A Queen's Book of Flowers", an exhibition running in York until the end of June 💐   🧵/3

Naturalisation of Power (1250-1600): Unravelling the Strategies of Legitimation, eds. Éloïse Adde and Jonathan Dumont (Sismel • Edizioni del Galluzzo, June 2025) facebook.com/MedievalUpdate… sismel.it/pubblicazioni/… #medievaltwitter #medievalstudies #medievalpower

Highly enjoyed the Age of Elegance exhibition at the King’s Gallery from @royalcollectiontrust —beautifully curated with a wonderful selection of artworks and artifacts with a particular focus on Queen Alexandra #royalstudies #queenship👑

From Æthelflæd to Tamar of Georgia to Salic Law, it's been a fun, busy, history-packed day for the Teaching Medieval Women team, running a CPD day at Nottingham Trent University. Thank you to all who attended and to our speakers for the day ✨ #CPD

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It’s been a busy, queen-filled week so far! Started with talking about female succession Teaching Medieval Women CPD event in Nottingham, then 2 days in Paris discussing the patronage of royal women & celebrating the career of Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier + the Worth exhibition to finish!