Publications

Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe examines the lives of women whose gender impeded the exercise of their personal, political, and religious agency, with an emphasis on the conflict that occurred when they crossed the edges society placed on their gender. Many of the women featured in this collection have only been afforded cursory scholarly focus, or the focus has been isolated to a specific, (in)famous event. This collection redresses this imbalance by providing comprehensive discussions of the women’s lives, placing the matter that makes them known to history within the context of their entire life. Focusing on women from different backgrounds—such as Marie Meurdrac, the French chemist; Anna Trapnel, the Fifth Monarchist and prophetess; and Cecilia of Sweden, princess, margravine, countess, and regent—this collection brings together a wide range of scholars from a variety of disciplines to bring attention to these previously overlooked women.
 

From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past is a collection of essays that both analyses the historical and cultural medieval and early modern past, and engages with the medievalism and early-modernism—a new term introduced in this collection—present in contemporary popular culture. By focusing on often overlooked uses of the past in contemporary culture—such as the allusions to John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi (1623) in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books, and the impact of intertextual references and internet fandom on the BBC’s The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses—the contributors illustrate how cinematic, televisual, artistic, and literary depictions of the historical and cultural past not only re-purpose the past in varying ways, but also build on a history of adaptations that audiences have come to know and expect. From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past analyses the way that the medieval and early modern periods are used in modern adaptations, and how these adaptations both reflect contemporary concerns, and engage with a history of intertextuality and intervisuality.

Forthcoming

Gerzic, Marina, and Aidan Norrie, eds. Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations. New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2020.

Norrie, Aidan, and Mark Houlahan, eds. New Directions in Early Modern English Drama: Edges, Spaces, Intersections. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, forthcoming 2020.

Norrie, Aidan, Carolyn Harris, Joanna Laynesmith, Danna Messer, and Elena Woodacre, eds. Norman to Early Plantagenet Consorts. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2022.

Norrie, Aidan, Carolyn Harris, Joanna Laynesmith, Danna Messer, and Elena Woodacre, eds. Later Plantagenet and Wars of the Roses Consorts. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2022.

Norrie, Aidan, Carolyn Harris, Joanna Laynesmith, Danna Messer, and Elena Woodacre, eds. Tudor and Stuart Consorts. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2022.

Norrie, Aidan, Carolyn Harris, Joanna Laynesmith, Danna Messer, and Elena Woodacre, eds. Hanoverian to Windsor Consorts. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2022.

Journal Articles:

Norrie, Aidan. “Kings’ Stomachs and Concrete Elephants: Gendering Elizabeth I through the Tilbury Speech.” Royal Studies Journal 6, no. 2 (2019): 25–45.
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Norrie, Aidan. “The Bishop and the Queen; Or, Why Did the Bishop of Carlisle Crown Elizabeth I?” Northern History 56, nos. 1–2 (2019): 25–45.
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Norrie, Aidan. “Child Actors in the 1578 Norwich Civic Entertainment.” Shakespeare Bulletin 37, no. 2 (Summer 2019): 167–185.
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Norrie, Aidan. "Elizabeth I and the 'Proud Prelate.'" Notes and Queries 65, no. 4 (December 2018): 504–506.
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Houlahan, Mark, and Aidan Norrie. "Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Plutarch's Life of Demetrius." Notes and Queries 65, no. 4 (December 2018): 539–542.
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Norrie, Aidan. "Elizabeth I as Judith: Reassessing the Apocryphal Widow's Appearance in Elizabethan Royal Iconography." Renaissance Studies 31, no. 5 (November 2017): 707–722.
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Norrie, Aidan. "'Courageous, Zealous, Learned, Wise, and Chaste' – Queen Elizabeth I's Biblical Analogies After Her Death." Royal Studies Journal 2, no. 2 (2015): 25–44.
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Book Chapters:

Norrie, Aidan. "William Shakespeare and Elizabeth I: The Special Relationship?" In Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations, edited by Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie. New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2020.

Gerzic, Marina, and Aidan Norrie. "'Did Shakespeare really write this racy stuff?': Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations." In Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations, edited by Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie. New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2020.

Norrie, Aidan. "'Our Queen is Comming to the Town': Child Actors and Counsel in the Elizabethan Progresses of 1574 and 1578." In New Directions in Early Modern English Drama: Edges, Spaces, Intersections, edited by Aidan Norrie and Mark Houlahan. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, forthcoming 2020.

Norrie, Aidan, and Mark Houlahan. "Introduction: Edges, Spaces, and Intersections in Early Modern English Drama." In New Directions in Early Modern English Drama: Edges, Spaces, Intersections, edited by Aidan Norrie and Mark Houlahan. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, forthcoming 2020.

Norrie, Aidan. "Female Pharaohs in Ancient Egypt." In The Routledge History of Monarchy, edited by Elena Woodacre, Lucinda H.S. Dean, Chris Jones, Zita Rohr, and Russell Martin, 501–517. New York: Routledge, 2019.
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Norrie, Aidan, and Lisa Hopkins. "Introduction: Early Modern European Women and the Edge." In Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe, edited by Lisa Hopkins and Aidan Norrie, 15–25. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019.
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Norrie, Aidan. "Cecilia of Sweden: Princess, Margravine, Countess, Regent." In Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe, edited by Lisa Hopkins and Aidan Norrie, 179–202. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019.
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Gerzic, Marina, and Aidan Norrie. "Introduction: Medievalism and Early-Modernism in Adaptations of the English Past." In From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past, edited by Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie, 1–17. New York: Routledge, 2019.
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Norrie, Aidan. "The Queen, the Bishop, the Virgin, and the Cross: Catholicism versus Protestantism in Elizabeth." In From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past, edited by Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie, 226–243. New York: Routledge, 2019.
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Norrie, Aidan. "Female Rangatira in Aotearoa New Zealand." In A Companion to Global Queenship, edited by Elena Woodacre, 109–121. Bradford: ARC Humanities Press, 2018.
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Norrie, Aidan. "A Man? A Woman? A Lesbian? A Whore?: Queen Elizabeth I and the Cinematic Subversion of Gender." In Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture, edited by Janice North, Karl C. Alvestad, and Elena Woodacre, 319–340. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
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Academic Reviews:

Norrie, Aidan. Review of Early Modern Catholics, Royalists, and Cosmopolitans: English Transnationalism and the Christian Commonwealth, by Brian C. Lockey. Parergon 36, no. 2 (2019): 259–260.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of Unexpected Heirs in Early Modern Europe: Potential Kings and Queens, edited by Valerie Schutte. Royal Studies Journal 6, no. 1 (2019): 129–132.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of Baptist Women's Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680, by Rachel Adcock. Parergon 35, no. 2 (2018): 243.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of Cromwell: The Protector, by David Horspool. Royal Studies Journal 5, no. 2 (2018): 175–177.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of The Politics of Counsel in England and Scotland, 1286-1707, edited by Jacqueline Rose. Parergon 35, no. 1 (2018): 201–203.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria: Virgins, Witches, and Catholic Queens, by Susan Dunn-Hensley. Reviews in History (2018), doi:10.14296/RiH/2014/2253.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of Elizabeth I's Italian Letters, edited and translated by Carlo M. Bajetta. Royal Studies Journal 5, no. 1 (2018): 206–208.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of History, Fiction, and "The Tudors": Sex, Politics, Power, and Artistic License in the Showtime Television Series, edited by William B. Robison. Royal Studies Journal 4, no. 2 (2017): 258–262.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of Royal Mothers and Their Ruling Children: Wielding Political Authority from Antiquity to the Early Modern Era, edited by Elena Woodacre and Carey Fleiner. Parergon 33, no. 2 (2016): 178–180.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of Bishops and Power in Early Modern England, by Marcus K. Harmes. Parergon 33, no. 2 (2016): 187.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of Boudica's Odyssey in Early Modern England, by Samantha Frénée-Hutchins. Parergon 33, no. 1 (2016): 266–267.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of Reformation Unbound: Protestant Visions of Reform in England, 1525-1590, by Karl Gunther. Parergon 33, no. 1 (2016): 268–269.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of Supernatural and Secular Power in Early Modern England, edited by Marcus Harmes and Victoria Bladen. Parergon 32, no. 2 (2015): 348–350.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of Renaissance Drama on the Edge, by Lisa Hopkins. Parergon 32, no. 2 (2015): 384–385.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of Public Religious Disputation in England, 1558-1626, by Joshua Rodda. Parergon 32, no. 2 (2015): 299–300.
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Published Interviews and Other Publications:

Blog post about my research trip to the Newberry Library, Chicago.
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Interview for the Royal Studies Journal blog.
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