Nadine Akkerman
Hoogleraar Vroegmoderne Literatuur en Cultuur
- Naam
- Prof.dr. N.N.W. Akkerman
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- n.n.w.akkerman@hum.leidenuniv.nl
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Nadine Akkerman is expert op het gebied van Engelse literatuur. Zij ontcijferde de briefwisselingen van de Boheemse koningin Elizabeth Stuart en bestudeerde 17de-eeuwse spionnen. Akkerman publiceerde recent haar nieuwe boek 'Invisible Agents'. In 2017 werd Akkerman lid van de Jonge Akademie van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW).
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Hoogleraar Vroegmoderne Literatuur en Cultuur
- Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- Oude Britse letterkunde
- Akkerman N.N.W. (3 mei 2024), The tale of the Manx cat: recounting early modern authorship [Het verhaal van de staartloze kat: over auteurschap in de vroegmoderne tijd]. Leiden (Leiden University). [essay].
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Langman P. (2024), Fraud & forgery. In: Akkerman N.N.W. & Langman P. (red.), Spycraft: Tricks and tools of the dangerous trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 26-66.
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Langman P. (2024), Spycraft: tricks and tools of the dangerous trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Langman P. (2024), Cromwell's Postal Spies, BBC History Magazine (August): 31-35.
- Akkerman N.N.W., Langman P., Lay P. & Malins M. 3 juli 2024, A golden age of espionage. 1666 and All That 15 [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W., Langman P. & Evans E. 24 juni 2024, Invisible ink & toad poison: tools of elizabethan spycraft. History Extra Podcast. BBC History [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W., Langman P.F. & Lipscomb S. 18 juli 2024, Spycraft: from the Elizabethans to the Restoration. Not Just the Tudors 340. History Hit [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W., Langman P. & Senior A. 29 augustus 2024, How to be a spy in early modern England. Spymasters. Aspects of History [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Kelder J. 27 juni 2024, De James Bond van de 17e eeuw. De Jortcast 780 [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W., Langman P. & Zambone A. 30 augustus 2024, Spycrafte: early modern europe, espionage. Historically Thinking 373 [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W., Langman P. & Durrant J. 11 september 2024, Ep 202: Prof Nadine Akkerman & Dr Pete Langman. Jo Durrant's Beautiful Universe 202 [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W., Langman P. & Geoghegan P. 8 september 2024, Best of September Books. Talking History. Newstalk, Bauer Media Ireland [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W., Langman P. & Kumberg K. von 20 september 2024, Spycraft from Elizabeth I to the Restoration. Eye Spy: The Intelligence History Podcast 3. Stanford University [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Langman P. 16 september 2024, Oliver Cromwell's Postal Spies. HistoryExtra Long Reads 59. History Extra [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2024), Waarschuwing uit Londen: Elizabeth Stuart aan Johan de Witt: 30 augustus/9 september 1661. In: Huysman I. & Peeters R. (red.), Vrouwen rondom Johan de Witt. Soest: Catullus. 141-147.
- Akkerman N.N.W., Langman P. & Hammond A. 24 september 2024, Ciphers, Disguise and Invisible Ink: Tools of the Trade. Spycast 652. The International Spy Museum, Washington [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2023), Russell, Lucy, Countess of Bedford. In: Luckyi C. (red.), Palgrave encyclopedia of early modern women's writing. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 1-5.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2023), Een omstreden plezierreisje. In: Anrooij W. van & Hoftijzer P. (red.), Tot publijcque dienst der studie: boeken uit de Bibliotheca Thysiana. Hilversum: Verloren. 208-209.
- Akkerman N. & Langman P. (2023), Accidentally on purpose: denying any responsibility for the accidental archive. In: Prescott A. & Wiggins A. (red.), Archives: power, truth, and fiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 323-326.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2023) This flammable isle. Bespreking van: Healey J. (2023), The blazing world: a new history of revolutionary England: Bloomsbury. History Today 73(3): 96-97.
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Rowe C. 23 maart 2023, Episode 207, Jane Whorwood: royalist spy. English Heritage Podcast. English Heritage [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2022), De atomen van Margaret Cavendish: Margaret Cavendish aan Constantijn Huygens, 27 oktober 1658. In: Huysman I. & Leerintveld A. (red.), Constantijn Huygens: een leven in brieven. Soest: Catullus. 216-223.
- Akkerman N.N.W., Duijn M. van, Huysman I. & Ramackers S. (7 februari 2022), Brieven: Van kluis naar kussen Geïnterviewd door Garrelt Verhoeven [interview].
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Lipscomb S. (10 maart 2022), The Queen of Hearts: The Forgotten Stuart Queen. Not Just the Tudors [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Moller V. 11 maart 2022, Interview with Nadine Akkerman on Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts. Travels Through Time. Unseen Histories [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Yeoman L. 23 april 2022, Assassination and Murder: Trail ahead at 21.31 to the next episode, on Elizabeth Stuart. Time Travels. BBC Radio Scotland [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2022), Women and Spy Networks. In: Elk M. van (red.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2022), The Other Elizabeth, History Today 72(9): 54-63.
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Larson R. 13 december 2022, Daughter of James VI/I: Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts. Tydor Dynasty [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2022), Women’s letters and cryptological coteries. In: Scott-Baumann E., Clarke D. & Ross S.C.E. (red.), The Oxford handbook of early modern women’s writing in English, 1540-1700. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 547-561.
- Dambrogio J., Ghassaei A., Starza Smith D., Jackson H., Demaine M.L., Davis G., Mills D., Ahrendt R., Akkerman N.N.W., Linden D. van der & Demaine E.D. (2021), Unlocking history through automated virtual unfolding of sealed documents imaged by X-ray microtomography, Nature Communications 12: 1184.
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Lipscomb S. 13 mei 2021, 17th Century Female Spies. Not Just the Tudors. History Net [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2021), Q&A, A Selection of Historical Conundrums Answered by Experts: 'How Did People in Hiding Communicate with Confidants before Modern Means of Communication?', BBC History Magazine March: 66.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2021), Elizabeth Stuart: Queen of Hearts. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2021), Elisabeth of Bohemia’s Aristocratic Upbringing and Education at the Prinsenhof, Rapenburg 4-10, Leiden, c. 1627/8-32. In: Ebbersmeyer S. & Hutton S. (red.), Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-1680): A Philosopher in her Historical Context . Cham: Springer. 17-31.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2021), The Art of Treason, BBC History Magazine 22(13): 62-67.
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Davies R. 20 december 2021, The Stuart Princess Who Could Have Deposed Charles I. History Extra Podcast [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W., Vlotho: A Bridge Too Far: Aspects of History. [blog].
- Daybell J., Norrhem S., Broomhall S., Van Gent J. & Akkerman N.N.W. (2021), Gender and Materiality in Early Modern English Gloves, Sixteenth Century Journal 52(3): 571-606.
- Akkerman N.N.W. 8 oktober 2019, Spies 2: Interview with Dr Nadine Akkerman. Histories of the Unexpected [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2019), Superspionne Lady Carlisle, Geschiedenis Magazine 54(7): 60-65.
- Ahrendt R., Akkerman N.N.W., Dambrogio J., Starza Smith D. & Linden D. van der (2019), The letter as object. In: Hotson H. & Wallnig T. (red.), Reassembling the republic of letters in the digital age: standards, systems, scholarship. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press. 63-67.
- Akkerman N.N.W. 1 januari 2019, Aphra Behn and female espionage. H.History: Not what you thought you knew [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2019), Elizabeth Stuart Queen of Bohemia, Oxford Bibliographies Online : .
- Akkerman N.N.W. 23 augustus 2018, Female Spies of the Civil War Era. History Extra Podcast [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2018), Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2018), Bespreking van: Elk M. van (2017), Early Modern Women’s Writing: Domesticity, Privacy, and the Public Sphere in England and the Dutch Republic. Early Modern Literature in History. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Renaissance Quarterly 71(2): 779-780.
- Akkerman N.N.W. 4 juli 2018, ScienceGuide Podcast met Nadine Akkerman over vrouwelijke spionnen. ScienceGuide [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2017), Informal Diplomacy: The Correspondences of Ambassadors' Wives and Women Spies [ERC Tide, University of Liverpool, UK, November 2017]. .
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2017), The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia [Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO)] 1 & 2. Oxford: Early Modern Letters Online. [dataset].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2017), Brienne collection [Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO)]. Oxford: Early Modern Letters Online. [dataset].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2016), Enigmatic Cultures of Cryptology. In: Daybell J. & Gordon A. (red.), Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain. Material Texts Series University of Pennsylvania Press. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 69-84 (notes at pp.266-271).
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2016), April 2016, with the 4 other steering committee members of the AHRC network, ‘Gloved: The Gendered Power of Materiality in Early Modern English Handwear’, AHRC Network Conference: Gender, Power and Materiality in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800, Plymouth University. .
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2016), September 2016, invited paper, ‘British she-intelligencers, 1647-1667,’ international conference ‘Beyond Ambassadors: Missionaries, Consuls & Spies in Premodern Diplomacy’, Leiden University, Leiden. .
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2016), April 2016, invited paper, ‘The Research Potential of a Postmaster’s Chest: An Introduction to ‘Signed, Sealed & Undelivered’, AHRC Network Conference: ‘Gender, Power and Materiality in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800’, Plymouth University, UK. .
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2016), King's Blog: Ben Jonson’s Masque of Queens. [film].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2015), The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia: Volume I 1603-1631. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2015), A Triptych of Dorothy Percy Sidney (1598-1659), Countess of Leicester, Lucy Percy Hay (1599-1660), Countess of Carlisle, and Dorothy Sidney Spencer (1617-1684), Countess of Sunderland. In: Hannay M.P., Brennan M.G. & Lamb M.E. (red.), The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500-1700 (Volume I: Lives). Farnham, UK, Burlington, USA: Ashgate. 133-150.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2015), Aanjaagster van de hofcultuur in Den Haag: Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662), Geschiedenis Magazine (1): 32-35.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (11 november 2015), Ten things you never knew about Elizabeth Stuart, 'the Winter Queen'. OUP blog: Oxford University Press's Academic Insights for the Thinking World. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [blog].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2015), Keynote, one-day international colloquium / workshop, ‘Clandestine Communications in Early Modern England’, Queen Mary University of London. .
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2015), Invited paper, ‘The Scottish-Scandinavian Circle of Elizabeth of Bohemia’, international workshop, Drumminor Castle, Scotland. .
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2015), Paper, ‘The Private Ciphered Letter Books of a Spy,’ a two-day international colloquium, ‘A Collector of Secrets: Sir Balthazar Gerbier (1592-1663) in cultural diplomacy and the arts Gerbier’, V&A, London. .
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2015), Paper, ‘Pawnbrokers, Jewellers, and Blood Diamonds: How Elizabeth Stuart and Henrietta Maria Financed Exile and Wars’; invited participant to the panel Material Readings in Early Modern Culture, sponsored by the History of the Book, RSA Discipline Group, Renaissance Society of America, Berlin. .
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2014), Courtly Rivals in The Hague: Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662) & Amalia von Solms (1602-1675)) [Also available in Dutch: Rivalen aan het Haagse hof: Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662) & Amalia von Solms (1602-1675) (translation: Sandra Arts-Binnendijk)]. Venlo: VanSpijk / Rekafa Publishers in conjunction with Haags Historisch Museum.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2014) Review of The Iron Princess: Amalia Elisabeth and the Thirty Years War by Tryntje Helfferich. Bespreking van: Helfferich Tryntje (2013), The Iron Princess: Amalia Elisabeth and the Thirty Years War. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Journal of Military History 78(2): 11-12.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2014), June 2014, keynote, ‘Ambassadors’ Wives and Honourable Spies: The Hidden Aspects of Diplomacy, a Concluding Talk’, one-day international colloquium, ‘The Cultural Production of Early Modern Households’, the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford. .
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2014), March 2014, paper, ‘Informal Diplomacy: Women’s Letters of Friendship and Intimacy’; invited participant to the panel Diplomacies and Early Modern Correspondence, sponsored by the History of the Book, RSA Discipline Group, Renaissance Society of America, New York. .
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2013), Introduction. In: Akkerman N.N.W. & Houben B. (red.), The Politics of Female Households: Ladies-in-Waiting across Early Modern Europe. Rulers & Elites nr. 4. Leiden & Boston: Brill. 1-27.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2013), The goddess of the household: the masquing politics of Lucy Harington-Russell, Countess of Bedford. In: Akkerman N.N.W. & Houben B. (red.), The politics of female households: ladies-in-waiting across early modern Europe. Rulers & Elites nr. 4. Leiden/Boston: Brill. 287-309.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2013), Semper Eadem: Elizabeth Stuart and the Legacy of Queen Elizabeth I. In: Smart S. & Wade M.R. (red.), The Palatine Wedding of 1613: Protestant Alliance and Court Festival. Wolfenbütteler Abhandlungen zur Renaissanceforschung nr. 29. Wiesbaden: Herzog August Bibliothek. 145-168.
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Houben B. (red.) (2013), The Politics of Female Households: Ladies-in-Waiting across Early Modern Europe. Rulers & Elites nr. 4. Leiden & Boston: Brill.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2013), August 2013, invited paper, ‘The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia,’ and invited participant of Workshop ‘Women Early Modern Letters Online’, International conference, ‘Gender and Political Culture, 1400-1800’, A Joint Conference organised by History and the Centre for Humanities, Music and Performing Arts (HuMPA) at Plymouth University and Umeå Group for Pre-modern Studies, Plymouth University. .
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2012), September 2012, paper, ‘Hofdames als Lobbyisten’, annual conference of the Vlaams-Nederlandse Vereniging voor Nieuwe Geschiedenis ‘Lobby in de vroegmoderne Nederlanden’, Paleis der Academiën, Brussels. .
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2012), May 2012, keynote / invited guest lecture, ‘Opening up the Winter Queen’s Cabinet: The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia’, Cultures of Knowledge, History Faculty Oxford. .
- Akkerman N.N.W. 1 januari 2012, ‘Opening up the Winter Queen’s cabinet: the Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia’. Cultures of knowledge in Early Modern Europe [podcast].
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2011), References to "Luminalia" from the Correspondence of Sir Thomas Roe and Elizabeth Stuart, Malone Society Reprints 16(175): 65-78.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2011), The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, Volume II 1632 - 1642. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2011), 'The Postmistress, The Diplomat, and a Black Chamber? Alexandrine of Taxis, Sir Balthazar Gerbier and the Power of Postal Control'. In: Adams Robyn & Cox Rosanna (red.), Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 172-188.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2011) Zoeken naar vroegmoderne levens: tussen parochieboeken, rekeningen, citatenverzamelingen en bakpapier. Bespreking van: Smyth Adam (2010), Autobiography in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR GESCHIEDENIS 1: 128-129.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2011) Review. Bespreking van: Jenkinson Matthew (2010), Culture and Politics at the Court of Charles II, 1660-1685. Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History nr. 9. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. Royal Stuart Journal 3: 33-34.
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Huysman I. (2011), Een zeventiende-eeuwse catfight: de geloofsovergang van Louise Hollandina van de Palts als inzet bij de aanspraken op het Markiezaat van Bergen op Zoom (1657-1659), De Waterschans 41(2): 63-72.
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Corporaal M.C.M. (2010), Margaret Cavendish, Constantijn Huygens en de Bataafse tranen. In: Kloek Els, Blom Frans & Leerintveld Ad (red.), Vrouwen rondom Huygens. Hilversum: Verloren. 224-239.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2010), Cupido en de eerste koningin in Den Haag: Constantijn Huygens en Elizabeth Stuart. In: Kloek Els, Blom Frans & Leerintveld Ad (red.), Vrouwen rondom Huygens. Hilversum: Verloren. 73-96.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2010) 'Dwaze Correspondentie'. Bespreking van: Huysman Ineke & Rasch Rudolf (2009), Béatrix en Constantijn: De Briefwisseling tussen Béatrix de Cusance en Constantijn Huygens, 1652-1655. Amsterdam/Den Haag: Boom/ING. TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR GESCHIEDENIS 2: 288-289.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (1 augustus 2010), 'Cardenio: Op Zoek naar de Verloren Shakespeare: Alleen de Dwaas heeft de Waarheid in Pacht'. Theater aan het Spui Magazine: 26-27.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2010), Lucas, Margaret, Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon Nederland : .
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Corporaal M.C.M. (2009), Mad Science Beyond Flattery: The Correspondence of Margaret Cavendish and Constantijn Huygens. In: Mendelson S.H. (red.), Margaret Cavendish. Farnham, England & Burlington, USA: Ashgate. 263-304.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2009), Brieven Schrijven is Politiek Bedrijven: De Correspondentie van Elizabeth Stuart, Koningin van Bohemen, Historica: Vrouwengeschiedenisblad 31(2): 16-18.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2009), Cupido en de eerste koningin in Den Haag: Constantijn Huygens en Elizabeth Stuart, De Zeventiende Eeuw. Cultuur in de Nederlanden in Interdisciplinair Perspectief 25(2): 73-96.
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Corporaal M.C.M. (2009), Margaret Cavendish, Constantijn Huygens en de Betaafse tranen, De Zeventiende Eeuw. Cultuur in de Nederlanden in Interdisciplinair Perspectief 25(2): 224-239.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2007), “Reader Stand Still and Look, Lo Here I am”: Elizabeth Cary’s forgotten funeral elegy “On the Duke of Buckingham”. In: Wolfe H. (red.), The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 183-200.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2006) Review: Reading Early Modern Women, eds Helen Ostovich & Elizabeth Sauer. Bespreking van: Ostovich H. & Sauer E. (2004), Reading Early Modern Women: An Anthology of Texts in Manuscripts and Print, 1550-1700 nr. 5. London & New York: Routledge. English Studies 87: 625-627.
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Sellin P.R. (2005), A Stuart Masque in Holland: Ballet de la Carmesse de La Haye (1655): Part II, The Ben Jonson Journal 12: 141-164.
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Sellin P.R. (2004), "Facsimile Edition – A Stuart Masque in Holland: Ballet de la Carmesse de La Haye (1655)", The Ben Jonson Journal 11: 207-258.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2004) Review: ‘Der Winterkönig. Friedrich V. Der letzte Kurfürst aus der Oberen Pfalz, Tentoonstellingscatalogus, door P. Wolf, M. Henker, E. Brockhoff et al. Bespreking van: Wolf P. & Henker M. (2003), Der Winterkönig. Friedrich V. Der letzte Kurfürst aus der Oberen Pfalz: Eine Einführung zur Bayerischen Landesausstellung nr. 2. Augsburg. De Zeventiende Eeuw. Cultuur in de Nederlanden in Interdisciplinair Perspectief 20: 365.
- Akkerman N.N.W. (2004), Elizabeth Stuart, Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon Nederland : .
- Corporaal M.C.M. & Akkerman N.N.W. (2004), "Some New Rarities": The Correspondence Between Margaret Cavendish and Constantijn Huygens, Early Modern Literary Studies 3(9): .
- Akkerman N.N.W. & Corporaal M.C.M. (2003), ' “Some new rarities”: De correspondentie van Margaret Cavendish en Constantijn Huygens', Historica: Vrouwengeschiedenisblad 26(2): 12-14.
- Board Member Humanities Council (Lid Raad voor Geesteswetenschappen)
- Selection committee Faces of Science
- Board member Science Committee (Dutch: lid Wetenschapscommissie)
- Chair
- a foundation for the promotion of the History of Ideas in the Early Modern Period