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. 3 (December 2022)

Special Issue:
‘Iberian Queens and Court Portraiture in the Seventeenth Century’, guest edited by Mercedes Llorente

ARTICLES
Luc Duerloo – ‘Preface: Iberian Queens and Court Portraiture in the Seventeenth Century’
Carmen García-Frías Checa – ‘The Pictorial Representation of Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain: Between Luxury and Devotion’
Rocío Martínez López – ‘The Dynastic and Political Use of the Image of Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria (1669–1692): The ‘Imagined’ Portraits of the Heiress of the Spanish Monarchy’
Susana Varela Flor – ‘Representations of Catherine of Braganza in Portuguese National Collections: A Continuous Visual Construction?’
Mercedes Llorente – ‘The Representation of Two Iberian Queens: Luisa of Guzmán and Mariana of Austria’

Book Reviews
Jonathan Spangler - Daughter of France, Italian Princess, Protector of Protestants
Philip Mansel - The Empire Writes Back
Rubén González Cuerva - The Grand Princess Finally Reconsidered

Exhibition Reviews
Matthew Gin - In the Court of Walt Disney
Alex MacFarlane - Meeting in Isfahan: Vision and Exchange in Safavid Iran
Peter Stiffell - Uneasy Is the Head That Wears a Crown: The Tudors, A Global Phenomenon

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