Publications
“‘Sickly and Spent': Reassessing the Life and Afterlife of Anne of Great Britain” in Later Stuart Queens, 1600-1735: Religion, Political Culture, and Patronage edited by Eilish Gregory and Michael Questier.
Available via Springer Link or email me for a PDF copy.
As a reigning queen and historical figure, Queen Anne's memory and reputation have long been shaped by the perspectives of her contemporaries and historians regarding her body and poor health. To understand the ways in which views of Anne's body and health have framed her historical legacy and afterlife, this chapter examines the place of reputation, legacy, and notoriety in the primary documents and early historiography about Anne of Great Britain (r. 1702-1714) in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In the field of queenship studies, especially, Anne’s reign demonstrates how contemporary gossip and historiographical ills affect the long memory of royal women and how those perspectives can hinder their legacy. Despite Anne’s record in European political history in the early eighteenth century, the "failures" of her health, reproductive politics, and court culture have overshadowed how modern audiences and scholars have understood her place in early modern and modern British history. To reposition Anne in early modern studies and understand her reign outside of the challenges of her early historiography, this chapter will argue that Anne -- as a flesh and blood woman and a ruler -- deserves wider examination beyond her "bad" reputation and ailing body
Encyclopedia Articles, Review Articles, and Book Reviews
Encyclopedia Articles:
Contributing Editor, “The Crown of Aragon and Mediterranean Expansion,” forthcoming for the Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages with Arc Humanities Press (2024). Available here.
“The Balearic Islands and the Crown of Aragon, 1230–1400,” forthcoming for the Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages with Arc Humanities Press (2024). Available here.
“Queenship in Renaissance Sicily” forthcoming for the Routledge Resources Online – The Renaissance World (2026).
Review Articles:
Minieri, Jessica. “Between Freedom and Unfreedom: Imprisonment and Crime in Premodern Europe.” European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire 31, no. 3 (2024): 520-525. https://doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2024.2348889. Available via Academia.edu here: https://www.academia.edu/122328871/Between_Freedom_and_Unfreedom_Imprisonment_and_Crime_in_Premodern_Europe
Book Reviews:
Forthcoming:
Tanner, Heather. Lordship and Governance by the Inheriting Countesses of Boulogne (Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2023) [Review forthcoming, Medieval Feminist Forum, 2025].
Kelleher, Marie A. The Hungry City: A Year in the Life of Medieval Barcelona (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2025) [Review forthcoming, Medieval Feminist Forum, 2025].
Published:
Kagay, Donald and Andrew Villalon, eds., Conflict in Fourteenth Century Iberia: Aragon Vs. Castile and the War of the Two Pedros (Leiden: Brill, 2021). American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain, 2024.
Brolis, Maria Teresa. Stories of Women in the Middle Ages. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018. Published in Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (51), 2020
Dodd, Gwilym and Taylor, Craig, ed., Monarchy, State and Political Culture in Late Medieval England: Essays in Honour of W. Mark Ormrod. York: York Medieval Press, 2020. History: Journal of the Historical Association 2021.
Dominguez, Rodrigo da Costa and Amélia Aguiar Andrade, eds., Portugal in a European Context: Essays on Taxation and Fiscal Policies in Late Medieval and Early Modern Western Europe, 1100–1700 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) [H-Portugal].
Fleming, Gillian B. Juana I: Legitimacy and Conflict in Sixteenth Century Castile. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Published in Royal Studies Journal, 7(2), 154–155.
Mielke, The Archaeology and Material Culture of Queenship in Medieval Hungary, 1000–1395 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). Royal Studies Journal, 9(1), pp.90–91.
Pangonis, Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021). Royal Studies Journal, 8(2), pp.226–227.
Sarti, Cathleen. Women and Economic Power in Premodern Royal Courts. Leeds: ARC Humanities Press, 2020. Royal Studies Journal 8(1), 195–196.