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PONENCIA INAUGURAL
Ellie Woodacre
Ellie Woodacre
Reader in Renaissance History, University of Winchester
Dr Elena (Ellie) Woodacre is a Reader in Renaissance History at the University of Winchester. She is a specialist in queenship and royal studies and has published extensively in this area including her recent monographs, Queens and Queenship (ARC, 2021) and Joan of Navarre: Infanta, Duchess, Queen, Witch? (Routledge, 2022). Elena is the organizer of the ‘Kings & Queens’ conference series, founder of the Royal Studies Network, Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Studies Journal and the editor of two book series with Routledge and ARC Humanities Press. Currently, she is developing a six-volume collection on monarchy for Bloomsbury’s Cultural Histories series and is the lead author for textbook on medieval monarchy for Routledge which will be published in 2025/26.
“The Patron’s Payoff: Why patronage is central to understanding queenship”
Abstract
Inspired by the work of Nelson and Zeckhauser on the importance of patronage in the Italian Renaissance, this keynote will examine why patronage is such a vital aspect of queenship. It will examine the various forms of patronage that royal women engaged with including religious, educational, scientific, cultural and artistic patronage to contextualise the focus of this conference on the musical patronage of women. The connection between the ideals and expectations of queens and how their patronage enabled them to both craft an image which resonated with those ideals and ideally build a lasting positive legacy, will be another key focus of this talk. Finally this talk will also contextualise the focus of this conference on the Iberian courts, by providing comparative examples of the patronage of royal women across and beyond Europe.
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