Research Project | Marrying Cultures: Queens Consort, 1500–1800

Posted in resources by Editor on February 13, 2015

This HERA-funded research project on queens consort will be of interest to many readers. Upcoming events are scheduled to take place throughout Europe: Wolfenbüttel, Berlin, Oxford (in conjunction with Kensington Palace), Warsaw, and Stockholm. –CH

Marrying Cultures: Queens Consort and European Identities, 1500–1800

Marrying Cultures is a three-year research project funded by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) focusing on the foreign consort as agent of cultural transfer. The case studies to be investigated are the Polish princesses Katarzyna Jagiellonka, Duchess of Finland and Queen of Sweden (1526–83), and Zofia Jagiellonka, Duchess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1464–1512); Hedwig Eleonora of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden (1636–1715), and Charlotte Amalie of Hessen-Kassel, Queen of Denmark (1650–1714); the Portuguese princess Catarina of Braganza, Queen of Great Britain (1638–1705); Maria Amalia of Saxony, Queen of the Two Sicilies and Queen of Spain (1724–1760); and Luise Ulrike of Prussia, Queen of Sweden (1720–82).

Working with colleagues in historic palaces, museums and libraries (including Kensington Palace, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, London; the Royal Armoury, Stockholm, and the Duke August Library, Wolfenbüttel), the project members will also consider how it is that certain consorts become embedded in national cultural memory and others do not.

Partners
Historic Royal Palaces (Kensington Palace, London): Dr Joanna Marschner
National Portrait Gallery, London: Dr Catharine Macleod
Victoria and Albert Museum, London: Dr Julius Bryant
Livrustkammaren (The Royal Armoury), Stockholm: Dr Malin Grundberg
The Museum of Polish History, Warsaw: Monika Matwiejczuk

Supportive Institutions
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel: Professor Hellwig Schmidt-Glintzer
Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien, Hannover: Professor Susanne Rode-Breymann
Husgerådskammaren (The Royal Collections), Stockholm: Dr Lars Ljungström
Turku Castle and Historical Museum: Olli Immonen