English | 2021 | ISBN: 9004354999 | 335 Pages | True PDF | 16 MB

Eight case studies focus on a specific group of European Empress consorts and Queen regnants from the 17th to the 20th century and their relationship to the media, using a unique, comparative, cross-media, and cross-period approach.
Marion Romberg is a Research Associate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She has published monographs, articles and databases on early modern visual culture, including essays in Contesting Europe: Comparative Perspectives on Early Modern Discourses on Europe, 1400–1800 (Brill, 2019) and Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents (Brill, 2020).