Special Issue: Defining Aristocracy
edited by Cathleen Sarti

ARTICLES
Dr. Cathleen Sarti, Introduction: Historians and the Trouble of Defining Aristocracy, p. 1–14
Nadir Weber, Defining the Aristocrat: From Geneva to Revolutionary France, p. 15–44
Alexander Isacsson, Aristocrats and Refined Peasants: The Concept of Aristocracy in Swedish Historiography, p. 45–81
Marion Dotter, The Nobility in State and Society: Administrative and Public Ways of Defining and Conceptualising the Nobility in the Late Habsburg Empire (1849–1914), p. 82–119
Nicola Clark, Noblewomen, Court Service, and Crossing Borders: England c. 1500-1550, p. 120–143

Book Reviews, p. 144-176

ARTICLES
Dr. Zita Eva Rohr, Report on the 2023 Royal Studies Journal and Winchester University Press Biennial Early Career and Postgraduate Researcher Article Prize, p. 1–6
Valerie Schutte, Royal Sexualized Bodies at the Tudor Court, p. 7–80
Laury Sarti, Roman Culture in the Ottonian World, p. 81–119
Barbara Boloix-Gallardo, In the Intimacy of the Dār al-Nisā’: The Residential Spaces of the Nasrid Sultanas at the Alhambra of Granada (Thirteenth-Fifteenth Centuries), p. 120–153
Jordan Michelle Schoonover, “Wishing to Defend Her Country”: Philippa of Hainaut, Royal Marital Partnership, and the Battle of Neville’s Cross (1346), p. 154–188
Patrik Pastrnak, Three Wedding Journeys, Three Financial Records: Logistics, Court, Princess’s Agency, p. 189–238
Sylvia Barbara Soberton, “Large wen” or “swelling”? Exploring Myths and Misconceptions about Nicholas Sander’s Description of Anne Boleyn and Its Link to Witchcraft, p. 239–266
Mercedes Llorente, Mariana’s Linage: The Political Aspects of Claudio Coello’s Portrait, p. 267–290
Matthieu Mensch, Representing the Queen When the Queen Is Missing: The Duchess of Angoulême and Louis XVIII (1799-1824), p. 291–341
Lucy Sarah Valerie Coatman, Ephemeral Images: Zita of Bourbon-Parma and Picture Postcards, p. 342–381
Terri Sabatos, The Power of the Dog: Caesar of Notts and the Mourning of Edward VII, p. 382–427

Book Reviews, p. 428-450

Special Issue: The Iberian Queen’s Households: Dynamics, Social Strategies and Royal Power
edited by Dr Diana Pelaz Flores

ARTICLES
Diana Pelaz Flores, Introduction: The Iberian Queen’s Households: Dynamics, Social Strategies, and Royal Power, p. 1–12
Paula Del Val Vales, Reconstructing the Thirteenth-Century Castilian Queen’s Household through the Repartimientos, p. 13–43
Diana Pelaz Flores, The Households of the Princesses: Service and Representation through the first Household of Infanta Leonor of Aragon (1366-1375), p. 44-72
Stefano Maria Cingolani, The Houses of the Princesses Joanna, Isabel, and Violant (1375-1392): Formation, Composition, and Characteristics of Minor Curial Areas, p. 73–95
Lledó Ruiz Domingo, Surrounding the Future Queen of the Crown of Aragon: Violant of Bar’s Household as Duchess of Girona (1384–1386), p. 96–135
Martina Del Popolo, Officers and Social Promotion Strategies in the Lands of Isabel the Catholic (1470–1504), p. 136–162
Oscar Jimenez Molero, Concepcion Villanueva Morte, Extension of a Royal House: Servants of the Last Trastámara. The Infants of Castile and Aragon (1470-1504), p. 163–192

Book Reviews, p. 193-231

ARTICLES
Dr. Zita Eva Rohr, The 2022 Royal Studies Journal and The University of Winchester Biennial Book Prize Report, p. 1-4
Sarah Betts, Valerie Schutte, Brandy Jolliff Scott, Jessica Storoschuk, Aidan Jones, Carolyn Harris, Studying Prince Philip: His Life and Legacies in Context, p. 5-40
Sami Moubayed, Royalism in Syria after Faysal I: The Struggle for the Crown of Damascus, 1920-1958, p. 41-77
Róbert Kerepeszki, Some Candidates for the Vacant Throne of Interwar Hungary: International Approaches to Finding a Resolution, p. 78-98
Natalee Garrett, Royalty, Celebrity, and the Press in Georgian Britain, 1770-1820, p. 99-115
Flavien Bertran de Balanda, Gérard Gengembre, Restoration and Resilience: The Last Bourbons and the Revolutionary Past, p. 116-130
Jonathan Wayne Spangler, Seeing is Believing: The Ducal House of Lorraine and Visual Displays in the Projection of Royal Status, p. 131-161
José Eloy Hortal Muñoz, Royal Sites as Core Element of Early Modern Monarchies: Social Integration in Seventeenth-Century Castile, p. 162-181
Giovanni Collamati, Saint King Oswald of Northumbria: Overlord or Imperator? A Very Peculiar Ancestor, p. 182-193

Book Reviews, p. 194-223

“Beyond the Public/Private Divide: New Perspectives on Sexuality, Rituals, Hospitality, and Diplomacy within Royal Space”
special editor Dustin M. Neighbors, University of Helsinki

ARTICLES
Dustin Neighbors, Beyond the Public/Private Divide: New Perspectives on Sexuality, Hospitality, and Diplomacy within Royal Spaces, p. 1–17
Justine Cudorge, Women’s Quarters, an Influential and Political Pole: A Study of the Frankish Inner-Court (Sixth–Seventh Century), p. 18-32
Gabrielle Storey, Questioning Terminologies: Homosocial and “Homosexual” Bonds in the Royal Bedchamber and Kingship in Medieval England and France, p. 33-45
Stephen Griffin, Between Public and Private Spaces: Jacobite Diplomacy in Vienna, 1725-1742, p. 46-59
Dustin Neighbors, Natacha Klein Käfer, Zones of Privacy in Letters Between Women of Power: Elizabeth I of England and Anna of Saxony, p. 60-89

Book Reviews, p. 90-114

ARTICLES
Zita Eva Rohr, The 2021 Royal Studies Journal and Winchester University Press Biennial Early Career/Postgraduate Researcher Article Prize, p. 1–5
Rachel Marie Delman, The Royal Studies Journal Article Prize Winner 2021: The Queen’s House before Queen’s House: Margaret of Anjou and Greenwich Palace, 1447-1453, p. 6-25
Stefany Wragg, An “Authorized Fiction”: Towards a Biography of Anonymous 756, p. 26-54
Christian Raffensperger, Runaway Rulers: Marriage, Power, and Building a Wider Medieval Europe, p. 55-75
John-Wilhelm Flattun, Angel and Sovereign: Henry VII’s Royal Coins, Legitimation, and Relics of Power, p. 76-101
Nadia T. van Pelt, Speaking of Kings and Popes under the Shadow of Henry VIII’s Treason Act: Bale’s King Johan, p. 102-123
Conor Byrne, The Dates of Birth of Henry VIII’s English Wives, p. 124–145
Mark Walker, From William and Mary to William III: Transitioning the Monarchy at the Funeral Rituals of Mary II, 1695, p. 146–160
Stefan Seitschek, The Diaries of Emperor Charles VI: “Sneak Peeks” into the Daily Routine of the Imperial Viennese Court, p. 161–184
Matthias Range, The Royal Wave: Royal Interaction with the Public, p. 185–220

Book Reviews, p. 221-247

Special Issue: Performing Royal Power in Premodern Europe
Guest-edited by: Aidan Norrie, Sophie Shorland

ARTICLES
Aidan Norrie, Sophie Shorland, Introduction: Performing Royal Power in Premodern Europe, p. 1–8
David Harrap, Consecratio Navis: Ships and Propaganda in Henry V’s England, p. 9–34
Marta Celati, Performing Power in Early Renaissance Italy: Princely Image and Consensus in Political Treatises, p. 35–53
Aidan Norrie, Biblical Typology and Royal Power in Elizabethan Civic Entertainments, p. 54–78
Joseph B.R. Massey, The Saxon Connection: St Margaret of Scotland, Morgan Colman’s Genealogies, and James VI & I’s Anglo-Scottish Union Project, p. 79–110
Kit Heyam, Performing Historical Monarchs in Early Modern England: Beyond the History Play, p. 111–135
Laura I. Doak, Progresses, Print, and “Politick Managers”: Performing the Succession of James II & VII, 1679-1682, p. 136–155
Sonja Kleij, Performing the Many Roles of Queenship: Mary II as a Character in Dutch Songs, p. 156–180

Book Reviews, p. 181-211