Nadine Akkerman

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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]

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Career

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]

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References

  1. ↑ Nadine Akkerman appointed professor: Interdisciplinarity also strengthens the humanities, Leiden University
  2. ↑ Anna Groundwater, 'Winter in Bohemia', Literary Review, 501, October 2021
  3. ↑ Nadine Akkerman, Ammodo Science Award
  4. ↑ Staging The Masque of Queens, Malone Society
  5. ↑ Bate, Jonathan (18 June 2024). "Forget 007 – England's wildest spies were the Elizabethans". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  6. ↑ Maltby, Kate (27 November 2021). "With Elizabeth Stuart as monarch, might the English civil war have been avoided?". The Spectator . Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  7. ↑ Sanderson, David (31 May 2019). "English Civil War army of female spies hid messages in eggs". The Times . Retrieved 19 June 2024.
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