Periodic Reporting for period 1 - Mapping Anna (The Politics of Cultural Exchange: Anna of Denmark and the Uses of European Identity)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2017-01-16 do 2019-01-15
The project integrated five main research, teaching, and public engagement objectives:
• redefine female agency and enhance scholarly and public awareness of Anna of Denmark’s transcultural significance;
• analyse court spaces as sites of concrete and intangible cultural exchange and understand the symbolic and political value of behaviour and ritual;
• examine notions of national and international culture in pre-modern Europe and restore the importance of northern European influences on Britain at the turn of the seventeenth century;
• utilise new performative models of research to engage the public and promote broader cultural literacy;
• build international scholarly connections and access unpublished documents and primary objects in British and European holdings
The main scholarly result is a monograph, ""Anna of Denmark and the Politics of Visual and Material Culture at the Stuart Courts, 1589-1619"", under contract with Manchester University Press and due for publication in December 2019/January 2020. Additional scholarly outputs include the completion of five peer-reviewed journals (in Costume, The British Art Journal; Northern Studies, Women’s History Review; The Court Historian) published between March 2017 and July 2019, and the delivery of nine conference and seminar papers in Australia (Melbourne), England (Cambridge; London various; Winchester), New Zealand (Auckland); Scotland (Edinburgh; St Andrews), and the United States (New Orleans), during the course of the Fellowship.
Outputs beyond traditional academic avenues include publishing on Anna of Denmark’s political role with the online news and opinion platform, ""The Conversation"", and current, ongoing research for the production of a piece on Anna of Denmark for the BBC Radio Scotland series “Time Travel”, and an essay in the catalogue to accompany the 2020 public exhibition on court culture under King James VI and I (1566-1625) at the National Galleries of Scotland (Edinburgh)."