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Dr. Elena (Ellie) Woodacre is a specialist in medieval and Early Modern queenship and a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern European History at the University of Winchester. Her publications include her monograph The Queens Regnant of Navarre; Succession, Politics and Partnership (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and she has edited/co-edited several collections including, Queenship in the Mediterranean (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), The Image and Perception of Monarchy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge Scholars, 2014), Royal Mothers and their Ruling Children (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Virtuous or Villainess? The Image of the Royal Mother from the Early Medieval to the Early Modern Eras (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), A Companion to Global Queenship (ARC Medieval Press, 2018), Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and is the lead editor of History of Monarchy (Routledge). She is currently developing a monograph on Joan of Navarre and a short work on the historiography of queenship studies. Elena is the organizer of the ‘Kings & Queens’ conference series and the founder of the international Royal Studies Network (www.royalstudiesnetwork.org), a resource which aims to bring together scholars who work on monarchical topics. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Studies Journal (www.rsj.winchester.ac.uk ), an academic, peer-reviewed, multi-lingual and fully open-access publication which was launched in 2014. In addition, she is the lead editor of ARC Humanities Press’ Gender and Power in the Premodern Era book series: https://arc-humanities.org/our-series/arc/gender-and-power-in-the-premodern-world/

Recent Publications

The Queens Regnant of Navarre; Succession, Politics and Partnership (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)

Editor/Co-editor:

• Queenship in the Mediterranean (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013),
• The Image and Perception of Monarchy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge Scholars, 2014)
• Royal Mothers and their Ruling Children (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
• Virtuous or Villainess? The Image of the Royal Mother from the Early Medieval to the Early Modern Eras (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
• A Companion to Global Queenship (ARC Medieval Press, 2018), Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
• History of Monarchy (Routledge)

A full list of my publications can be found on my websites:

Academia.edu page: https://winchester.academia.edu/ElenaEllieWoodacre

Winchester page: https://www.winchester.ac.uk/about-us/leadership-and-governance/staff-directory/staff-profiles/woodacre.php

Media Coverage

I have participated in both TV and radio interviews for the BBC and have also been interviewed on TRT World news

Social Media

@monarchyconf

Country Focus

I focus primarily on Britain and Europe but I also research monarchy in a global comparative context

Expertise by Geography

England, France, United Kingdom, Western Europe

Expertise by Chronology

Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern, Modern

Expertise by Topic

Gender, Women