Introduction: A Winter Queen?
Prologue
Part I: 1596-1612
1: A Family Reunion
2: Periwigs and Powder Plots
3: Protestant Unions
4: The Marriage of Thames and Rhine
Part II: 1613-1620
5: Heidelberg - The Eye of the Storm
6: In the Service of the Electress
7: Queen of Bohemia
8: Troubles in Prague Escalate
Part III: 1621-1632
9: A Republican Queen
10: Military Manoeuvres
11: Unseverable Ties with Austria and Spain
12: 'I can send you nothing but deaths'
13: An 'Evil State'
14: Losing Champions
Part IV: 1632-1642
15: A Widow's Weeds
16: Unlikely Bedfellows
17: The Archbishop Strikes Back
Part V: 1642-1662
18: Obeisance to His Majesty and Love to the Parliament
19: Undesirable Matches, Unfortunate Endings
20: Three Widows
Epilogue: Turn Out the Lights
Nadine Akkerman is Professor in Early Modern Literature and Culture
at Leiden University and author of the critically acclaimed
Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century
Britain and of The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of
Bohemia. In 2017 she was elected to The Young Academy of the Royal
Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and received a Special
Recognition Award from the World Cultural Council, and in 2019
received an Ammodo Science Prize for fundamental research in the
humanities.
this new biography surpasses all earlier studies of Elizabeth
Stuart
*Thomas Pert, The Seventeenth Century*
An extraordinary biography of a much-maligned and much-forgotten
queen... Akkerman knows her archive as few have ever done, and
demonstrates how to resurrect an early modern woman.
*Suzannah Lipscomb, Books of the Year 2021, BBC History
Magazine*
As a political biography, and as a sensitive exploration of the
position of a royal woman, Nadine Akkermans book is excellent.
*Jean Wilson, Times Literary Supplement*
[A] masterful transformative biography
*Noel Malcolm, The Daily Telegraph*
Akkerman situates astonishingly comprehensive research against an
even more complicated background, rooting her account in diplomatic
reports, Elizabeth's own correspondence and numerous
illustrations... [Her] erudite, pacey narration of the
frustrations, downturns and highlights of Elizabeth's life make for
compelling reading. I was gripped.
*Anna Groundwater, Literary Review*
[A] masterful transformative biography
*5 Star Review, Noel Malcolm, Daily Telegraph*
After all the macho chevaliers who served her in life, this
Elizabeth has found a superb and sisterly champion in death.
*Kate Maltby, The Spectator*
Akkermans sensitivity to literary and cultural symbolism deeply
enriches this biography ... After all the macho chevaliers who
served her in life, this Elizabeth has found a superb and sisterly
champion in death.
*Kate Maltby, The Spectator*
This excellent book sheds light on a part of Scottish history – and
European history – that is too little known. It is also a
reclamation of a figure of genuine significance and strength.
*Stuart Kelly, The Scotsman*
[Akkerman's book] comprises both personal and political history in
which, seamlessly, Elizabeth's reported giggles at her wedding to
Frederick of the Palatinate and her dislike of purgatives keep
company with – and are as well handled as – Count Mansfeld's
military advances on Breda.
*Steven Veerapen, Aspects of History*
A goldmine for the Stuart enthusiast who wants to know everything
about the fascinating and often misleadingly depicted Elizabeth
Stuart, British princess and titular queen of Bohemia, and the
times she lived in.
*Eva Bonde, Historiskan*
This is a scholarly and fascinating account of both an
extraordinary woman and of the time in which she lived. Using
original source materials, much of which has not been seen before,
Dr Akkerman is particularly skilled at showing how easily women can
be misrepresented or erased from history.
*Kate Mosse*
In Queen of Hearts, Nadine Akkerman combines matchless archival
expertise with a story-teller's instinct to give new life to one of
the seventeenth century's most misunderstood women. A gripping
tale.
*Natalie Zemon Davis*
This is an important scholarly biography, of interest to those who
work on British and European political, cultural, and religious
history; court culture; and women's history; plus, it is readily
accessible to anyone who enjoys a good, historical read.
*Georgianna Ziegler, Folger Shakespeare Library (Emerita), Early
Modern Women*
Akkerman convincingly succeeds in developing a portrait of a
remarkable woman.
*Sven Externbrink, Redaktion sehepunkte*
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