Nadine Akkerman (born 1978) is a Dutch historian and Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at Leiden University in the Netherlands.[ Nadine Akkerman appointed professor: Interdisciplinarity also strengthens the humanities, Leiden University] 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.[Anna Groundwater, 'Winter in Bohemia', Literary Review, 501, October 2021]
Career
Akkerman studied English Language and Literature at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, graduating in 2001.
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 at Queen Mary University of London, Jesus College, Oxford and the University of Birmingham.
[ Nadine Akkerman, Ammodo Science Award]
On 11 August 2016, Akkerman and Daniel Smith staged a production of The Masque of Queens at New College, Oxford.[ Staging The Masque of Queens, Malone Society]
Selected publications
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(Yale University Press, 2024), with Pete Langman.
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Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021).
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'Unlocking History through Automated Virtual Unfolding of Sealed Documents Imaged by X-ray Microtomography', Nature Communications, 12:1184 (2021), with Jana Dambrogio, Amanda Ghassaei et al.
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Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).
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Courtly Rivals in the Hague: Elizabeth of Bohemia and Amalia van Solms (Venlo: VanSpijk/Rekafa, 2015).
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'The Goddess of the Household: The Masquing Politics of Lucy Harington-Russell, Countess of Bedford', in Nadine Akkerman & Birgit Houben (eds), The Politics of Female Households: Ladies-in-waiting across Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2014).
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The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, 3 volumes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011-2016)
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