The Court Historian is published three times a year, in April, August and December. Information about current and future issues is available here.

Archive Issue

Volume 27, No. 1 (April 2022)

ARTICLES
Jeremy Musson & Annabel Westman – ‘The Russian Empress, the English Earl and a Norfolk State Bed’ (Research Article)
Susannah Lyon-Whaley – ‘Queens at the Spa: Catherine of Braganza, Mary of Modena and the Politics of Display at Bath and Tunbridge Wells’
Jiří Kubeš – ‘Imperial Envoys at the English and British Court (1660–1740): Reception Ceremonies and Disputes over Titles’
Jill Bepler – ‘Dynasty, Politics, Piety and the Consort’s Library: Queen Charlotte Amalie of Denmark (1650–1714) and her Calvinist Inheritance’

Book Reviews
A Reconsideration of the Meaning of Royal Ritual in Eighteenth-Century France - Anne Byrne, Death and the Crown: Ritual and Politics in France before the Revolution (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020), 249 pp., 18 figs. - Christine Adams
Only in France: The Mistress as Institution - Tracy Adams and Christine Adams, The Creation of the French Royal Mistress from Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020), 236+xii pp. - Katherine Crawford
Isabel of Bourbon and the Dynamics of Power at the Spanish Court - Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez, A la sombra de la reina. Poder, patronazgo y servicio en la corte de la Monarquía Hispánica (1615–1644). Biblioteca de Historia, 93. (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2020), 322 pp. - Anne J. Cruz

Conference Report
Marginalised Voices in French Festival Culture - Eva van Kemenade

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