Crossing ­­the North Sea: Anna of Denmark, Cultural Transfer and Transnational Politics (1589–1619)

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1 The concept of the Arbeitspaar or ‘working pair’ (defined as a complementary division of symbolic and political labour within a ruling couple’s marriage, for which young princes/princesses were specifically trained) is Heide Wunder’s. See He is the Sun, She is the Moon: Women in Early Modern Germany, trans. by Thomas Dunlap (Cambridge, Mass., 1998).

2 For more on these authors’ work on Anna in this exciting anniversary year of her death, see the articles by Meikle, Pearce and Field in the most recent issue of The Court Historian, guest edited by Sara Ayres.

3 Patrick Kragelund, A Stage for the King: The Travels of Christian IV of Denmark and the Building of Frederiksborg Castle (Copenhagen, 2019).

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Sara Ayres

Sara Ayres

From 2016 to 2018, Dr Sara Ayres was the Queen Margarete II Distinguished Post-Doctoral Fellow in Danish-British Portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery, London, funded by the Carlsberg Foundation. She is currently working on Prince George of Denmark’s Grand Tour of 1669.