Nadine Akkerman
Nadine Akkerman is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at Leiden University in the Netherlands.[1] Her published work has been concerned with the life and letters of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, and early modern espionage, and she has made a major contribution to studies of that Queen, the Thirty Years War, and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, by revisiting and editing original manuscript sources and letters.[2]
Career
[edit]Akkerman studied English Language and Literature at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her 2008 PhD included a survey of the letters of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia. She has been a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, The Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, and the University of Birmingham.[3]
On 11 August 2016 Akkerman and Daniel Smith staged a production of The Masque of Queens at New College, Oxford.[4]
Selected publications
[edit]- Spycraft: Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration (Yale University Press, 2024), with Pete Langman.[5]
- Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021).[6]
- 'Unlocking History through Automated Virtual Unfolding of Sealed Documents Imaged by X-ray Microtomography', Nature Communications, 12:1184 (2021), with Jana Dambrogio, Amanda Ghassaei et al.
- Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).[7]
- Courtly Rivals in the Hague: Elizabeth of Bohemia and Amalia van Solms (Venlo: VanSpijk/Rekafa, 2015).
- 'The Goddess of the Household: The Masquing Politics of Lucy Harington-Russell, Countess of Bedford', in Nadine Akkerman & Birgit Houben (eds), The Politics of Female Households: Ladies-in-waiting across Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2014).
- The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, 3 volumes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011-2016)
References
[edit]- ^ Nadine Akkerman appointed professor: Interdisciplinarity also strengthens the humanities, Leiden University
- ^ Anna Groundwater, 'Winter in Bohemia', Literary Review, 501, October 2021
- ^ Nadine Akkerman, Ammodo Science Award
- ^ Staging The Masque of Queens, Malone Society
- ^ Bate, Jonathan (18 June 2024). "Forget 007 – England's wildest spies were the Elizabethans". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
- ^ Maltby, Kate (27 November 2021). "With Elizabeth Stuart as monarch, might the English civil war have been avoided?". The Spectator. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
- ^ Sanderson, David (31 May 2019). "English Civil War army of female spies hid messages in eggs". The Times. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
