Jemma Field is a historian and art historian from

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. She studied for her PhD with Erin Griffey at the

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. She was subsequently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at

Brunel University Brunel University London is a public research university located in the Uxbridge area of London, England. It was founded in 1966 and named after the Victorian engineer and pioneer of the Industrial Revolution, Isambard Kingdom Brunel. In June 1 ...

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. She is currently Associate Director of Research at the

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. Field's published work concerns the

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Anne of Denmark Anne of Denmark (; 12 December 1574 – 2 March 1619) was the wife of King James VI and I; as such, she was Queen of Scotland The monarchy of the United Kingdom, commonly referred to as the British monarchy, is the constitutional fo ...

, queen consort of

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, and wife of

James VI and I James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until ...

. Like many modern writers she prefers the use of the forename "Anna" instead of "Anne". Her ideas about Anne of Denmark's personal piety and religious views, and the role of her Danish chaplain

Johannes Sering Johannes Sering or Johannes Seringius (died 1631) was a chaplain to Anne of Denmark in Scotland and England Sering was a graduate of Rostock University where he had studied under David Chytraeus. His 1585 matriculation record says he was from Thuri ...

, contribute to contemporary debate. Field examines the ways in which Anne of Denmark expressed her identity and

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through her own dress and bodily ornament, including her jewellery, and also the costume of her servants and household, which reflected both the customs of Scotland and the royal court of Denmark and the

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.Sara Ayres
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Selected publications

'Anna of Denmark: Daughter, Wife, Sister, and Mother of Kings', Aidan Norrie, Carolyn Harris, J. L. Laynesmith, Danna R. Messer, Elena Woodacre, ''Tudor and Stuart Consorts'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. 211-229

'Female dress', Erin Griffey, ''Early Modern Court Culture'' (Routledge, 2022), pp. 390-405

''Anna of Denmark: The Material and Visual Culture of the Stuart Courts'' (Manchester, 2020)

'Anna of Denmark’s Jewellery and the Politics of Dynastic Display', Erin Griffey, ''Sartorial Politics in Early Modern Europe'' (Amsterdam UP, 2019), pp. 139-160

'Anna of Denmark and the Politics of Religious Identity in Jacobean Scotland and England, c. 1592-1619', ''Northern Studies'', 50 (2019), pp. 87-113

'Dressing a Queen: The Wardrobe of Anna of Denmark at the Scottish Court of King James VI, 1590–1603', ''The Court Historian'', 24:2 (2019)

'The Wardrobe Goods of Anna of Denmark, Queen Consort of Scotland and England (1574–1619)', 51:1 ''Costume'' (March 2017)

References

External links

'Anna of Denmark: The material and visual culture of the Stuart courts, 1589–1619' SCRIBD

Jemma Field, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, profile, The Conversation
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