Court Studies
Scholars studying the political and cultural lives of courts and courtiers, across periods, regions, and disciplines.
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@hannasinclair.bsky.social
@driesraey.bsky.social
Historian of early modern politics and culture at Radboud University. Interested in the history of monarchy, dynasties, and princely courts.
@pedrourbano.bsky.social
19th century #Historian, #researcher at IHC, Nova FCSH #womenegoproject He/him
@papaerc.bsky.social
ERC-funded project at the University of Trier that explores the political game of courtly parties in polemical prints in 18th century France
@benoit-carre.bsky.social
Chercheur en histoire moderne. Ancien Régime et Révolution française.
@mikaelalm.bsky.social
Professor of History, Uppsala University. Eighteenth century/Age of Revolutions | Royal image making & political culture | Sartorial practices & social order | Court society & social interaction | Digitising Gustav III's private archive | New on 🦋
@courtstudies.bsky.social
Founded in September 1995, the Society for Court Studies is the leading international academic society for the examination of royal and princely courts and households from antiquity to the present. https://courtstudies.org/
@eventyra.bsky.social
French PhD student in early modern history (diplomacy/court studies/dailylife & gender/british monarchy). 📝En pleine rédaction
@mattfirth.bsky.social
Research Fellow @ Flinders Uni. English Queens, 850-1000 out now (https://t.ly/Q395d). Pre-Conquest History and its Medieval Reception (https://t.ly/jeqql) & Remembering England: Cultural Memory in the Sagas of Icelanders out soon (https://t.ly/So2-E).
@warwick-historian.bsky.social
👑Interpretation Manager at Historic Royal Palaces 🏰Historian of Warwick Castle and the House of Warwick 📚Director of Warwick Words History Festival Follow for history, heritage, architecture, art, Warwick, Christmas Instagram: warwick_historian
@amforsyth.bsky.social
PhD student, History @aucklanduni researching fertility, maternity, and childlessness of Valois dauphines. Research interests include medicine, health, French history, Franco-Scottish relations, monarchy, and medieval/ renaissance women & gender
@mia1va.bsky.social
Author of Sovereign Joy:Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1540 #earlymodern #skyhistorians
@elurgo.bsky.social
Historian Université de Strasbourg - Faculté de Théologie Catholique Church Studies - Court Studies - Sabaudian Studies
@charlesxhistory.bsky.social
Curator and Public Historian @HRP_palaces. Medieval and E. Modern Kingship and Material Culture. Secretary @ChaucerHeritage. Seminar Secretary @CourtStudies.
@bethandavies.bsky.social
Associate Lecturer and teacher | PhD from the University of Roehampton in sugar and femininity in early modern drama and culture | she/her.
@chbackerra.bsky.social
@patrikpastrnak.bsky.social
DPhil (Oxon). Medievalist&Early Modernist, associate prof at Palacky Uni, Olomouc (Czechia) Rulership, travel, narrativity, gender. And wedding journeys. https://reginalita.ff.upol.cz/en/reginalita-uvod-english/
@dralexcourtney.bsky.social
#Earlymodern historian Author: James VI, Britannic Prince (Routledge, 2024) Co-editor: James VI & I: Kingship, Government & Religion (Routledge, 2025) Co-editor: Mary Queen of Scots’ lost letters (forthcoming, Routledge) https://bio.site/alexandercourtney
@meganshaw.bsky.social
Art Historian | Working on the Duchess of Buckingham and Cultural Patronage at the Stuart Court | 2022 Junior Fellow, Paul Mellon Centre | Instagram: @yorkhousearchive
@ctbriggsmoensted.bsky.social
PhD candidate in art history, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. My research interests include pre-industrial architecture, court studies, history of science and technology, aesthetic theory.
@historyjoey.bsky.social
• History PhD Uni of York • Funded by WRoCAH • The Royal Progresses of James VI & I • Curatorial internship at Historic Royal Palaces • Organiser ‘Understanding King James’ conference 2025
@susanmooreresearch.bsky.social
Freelance researcher specialising in Chancery records and other records of places and people in the 16th and 17th century. Trustee of British Association for Local History, BALH
@vincenzodm.bsky.social
International politics i/t ´Brussels Bubble´. Historian (16th c. diplomacy). Also Teaching Assistant @VUBrussel (UK history). Belgian. My views are my own.
@johannastrong.bsky.social
PhD on Mary I’s legacy. History Teacher and Resident Tutor. Routledge author. Queen’s University alumna. Views my own. www.drjohannastrong.ca. 🇨🇦
@vanessabraganza.bsky.social
'The real Robert Langdon' | writer and future civil rights lawyer | 📖 THE SECRET-SEEKERS: A BOOK DETECTIVE'S QUEST out from HarperOne 2026 | PhD @harvard, JD @columbialaw
@amysaunders.bsky.social
Independent researcher exploring representations of the Stuart monarchy in heritage sites. All things museums, books, cats, baking, and lego. Team Saunders-Green ❤️
@jemmafield.bsky.social
Associate Director of Research, Yale Center for British Art | Early modern English women | politics of dress and bodily display | 📚Anna of Denmark (MUP, 2020) | currently preoccupied with the wardrobe of Charles I (1600-1649)
@miraelston.bsky.social
Tudor Art & Architecture in Global Contexts - Travel Narratives, Maps, & Colonial Encounters / Sometimes Dabbling in Modernism & Design #EarlyModern #Tudor #ArtHistory Assistant Professor Coastal Carolina University @ccuarthistory | PhD @UNC
@rmonsey.bsky.social
History PhD candidate at Boston University 🪦Mourning 👑 Monarchy 🧠 Memory 1680s-1820s | Britain
@tudorcook.bsky.social
Historic Kitchens Manager at Hampton Court Palace, he/him, experimental historian, tiresome lay-about. All views own, yada yada yada. No expectation of mutual following. Posting about whatever makes it out of the blender of my mind
@yasminehachimi.bsky.social
PhD in Early Modern Literature & Culture | Popular Representations of Premodern Queens | Period Dramas | Pop Culture | Romance Reader | Fangirl Probably talking about the Tudors. 👑 https://linktr.ee/yasminehachimi
@achatenetc.bsky.social
Rennaise Maîtresse de conférences en Histoire moderne 18e siècle Genre Culture matérielle et consommation Cour de France #ESR
@emilybrand.bsky.social
Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist. 📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron 📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
@glonsber.bsky.social
Shakespeare professor and theater historian into court masques. Experimental music obsessive. Atlanta.
@royalstudies.bsky.social
Scholarly network, resource & podcast for all things relating to royal studies & the institution of monarchy across periods & locations! Oversees K&Q Conference
@cvspragg.bsky.social
ECA-funded PhD student at Uni of Edinburgh exploring King James VI & I's cultivation of a distinctly 'imperial' 'British' European image through art 🏛️
@executedqueens.bsky.social
PhD student researching executed queens; author of books including biographies of Queen Katherine Howard and Lady Katherine Grey. Associate Fellow Royal Historical Society. 👑 conorbyrnex.blogspot.co.uk
@janetdickinson.bsky.social
Historian, tutor. Curious about things, mostly early modern. Teaches for Conted in Oxford and NYU in London.
@saraayres.bsky.social
Art historian. Forthcoming: a critical edition of Prince George of Denmark's travel diary detailing his time in Restoration England, 1669. Danish-British Consort Portraiture, c.1600-1900, Lund Humphries, 2023. Essays in OAJ and JHNA.
@wromantichistry.bsky.social
PhD student researching memories and Public History of the English Civil War (Royalist Reputations) and Monarchy. Modern Monarchy section editor at Royal Studies Journal. Chronically ill mum of 3.
@royalhistorian.bsky.social
Historian, royal commentator, author of Magna Carta and Its Gifts to Canada (2015), Queenship and Revolution in Early Modern Europe (2015) & Raising Royalty: 1000 Years of Royal Parenting (2017). Co-editor of the English Consorts series! royalhistorian.com
@gabbystorey.bsky.social
Historian of monarchy, gender, and sexuality. Writer, traveller, feminist 🏳️🌈 #teamberengaria. Book: Berengaria of Navarre. Lord of Le Mans and Queen of England (Routledge, 2024). Rep'd by Georgina Capel Associates
@florencehrscott.bsky.social
Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK. Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social
@nemgarrett.bsky.social
Historian of 18th-c. Europe. Royalty and popular/print culture. Lecturing at Open University. Views my own. Queen Charlotte biography now available from Routledge. https://linktr.ee/nataleegarrett.historian.
@miramiraculous.bsky.social
Book: Royal Marriage, Foreign Queens,& Constructions of Race in Early Modern England, under contract @ACMRSPress | 23-24 Long-term Fellow, @FolgerLibrary | Arab | dilettante
@priyaatwal.bsky.social
Historian of empire, monarchy & cultural politics in UK/S Asia. Community History Fellow @ Oxford Uni. Views are my own. Book & contact info here: https://linktr.ee/drpriyaatwal
@lucyhaigh.bsky.social
PhD on Queen Alexandra & the political press, 1863-1925 🗞 Femininity, & monarchy 👑 Publicity Officer for @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social Listings Editor & Blog Co-Ordinator for @royalstudies.bsky.social @historythroughher.bsky.social https://www.lucyhaigh.com/
@ewoodacre.bsky.social
Royal Studies scholar, interested in monarchy (particularly queens!) in all periods and places. Always spinning a few too many plates for my own good, and admit to having a soft spot for a good G&T
@oxfordcourtstudies.bsky.social
Seminar series focusing on the political and cultural life of courts and courtiers. 4:30pm, fortnightly in odd weeks of term, Jesus College, Oxford. All welcome. Convenor: @hannasinclair.bsky.social
@katje19792000.bsky.social
A blog about royal history & destinations with a royal link https://allaboutroyalfamilies.blogspot.com Bookblogger https://mycrazylifefullwithbooks.blogspot.com/ From Belgium
@historyboy30.bsky.social
FRHistS; @Colour4CRAFTS project coordinator & @helsinkiuni postdoc of early modern digital research, court/material culture & female hunting; history nerd, southern boy, castle lover, music fanatic & neurodivergent.
@jspan.bsky.social
Historian of the history of monarchy, the court and the upper aristocracy of Europe. France, Louis XIV, heirs and spares, dukes and princes, sexuality. Loves to tell good stories. Senior Editor, The Court Historian
@mirellamarini.bsky.social
Historian (Noble Women in the Low Countries-Dynastic Identity-Diplomacy) - science fiction geek - sewing enthousiast - @uantwerpen.be
@bramvanleuveren.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in early modern art history @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social • Out now with Brill: 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘋𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘍𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 • Anglo-Dutch-French • Diplomacy, ritual, ephemeral arts.
@sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social
Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536 Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
@hannasinclair.bsky.social
DPhil in Early Modern Italian (& French) Cultural History ⚜️ Convenor of Oxford’s Court Studies seminars. Vintage student. 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺