Maureen Meikle
Maureen M. Meikle (1961-2023) was an academic historian.
Her 1988 PhD thesis at the University of Edinburgh was titled 'Lairds and gentlemen: A study of the landed families of the Eastern Anglo-Scottish Borders c.1540-1603'. Maureen Meikle was a Fulbright Visiting Professor of British History at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, between 1993 and 1995.[1]
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She was Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Sunderland,[2] and appointed Head of Humanities at Leeds Trinity University in 2009.[3] Latterly, writing a new biography of Anne of Denmark, Anna of Denmark 1574-1619: Britain’s First Queen Consort, like most recent historians she prefers "Anna" for the queen's forename.[4]
In 2015, Meikle was a historical consultant to the
Riddle's Court
in Edinburgh on 30 October 2019.
Selected publications
- 'Once a Dane, Always Always a Dane? Queen Anna of Denmark's Foreign Relations and Intercessions as a Queen Consort of Scotland and England, 1588-1619', Sara Ayres, The Court Historian, 24:2 (August 2019), pp. 168-180
- The Scottish People, 1490-1625 (Lulu, 2013). ISBN 978-1291985665(E-book).
- Maureen Meikle & Helen M. Payne, 'From Lutheranism to Catholicism: The faith of Anna of Denmark, 1574-1619', Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 64 (2013), pp. 45–69.
- 'Scottish reactions to the marriage of the Lady Elizabeth, "first dochter of Scotland"', Sara Smart & Mara R. Wade, The Palatine Wedding 1613: Protestant Alliance and Court Festival (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz in Kommission, 2013), pp. 131–143
- 'Anna Of Denmark’s Coronation And Entry Into Edinburgh, 1590: Cultural, Religious And Diplomatic Perspectives', Sixteenth-Century Scotland: Essays in Honour of Michael Lynch (Brill, 2008), pp. 277-294
- A British Frontier? Lairds and Gentlemen in the Eastern Anglo-Scottish Frontier, 1540-1603 (Tuckwell: East Linton, 2004)
- 'A meddlesome princess: Anna of Denmark and Scottish court politics 1589–1603, Julian Goodare & Michael Lynch, The Reign of James VI (Tuckwell: East Linton, 2000), pp. 126–140.
- 'Holde her at the Oeconomicke rule of the house': Anna of Denmark and Scottish Court of Finances, 1589-1630', Elizabeth Ewan and Maureen M. Meikle, Women in Scotland c.1100-c.1750 (Tuckwell: East Linton, 1999).
References
- ^ Maureen Meikle, A British Frontier? Lairds and Gentlemen in the Eastern Anglo-Scottish Borders (Tuckwell, 2004), p. viii.
- ^ Julian Goodare & Michael Lynch, The Reign of James VI (Tuckwell: East Lothian, 2000), p. 268.
- ^ Maureen Meikle, The Scottish People, 1490-1625 (Lulu, 2013), p. ix.
- ^ Sara Ayres, 'Introduction', The Court Historian: The Northern Line: Representing Danish Consorts in Scotland, England and Great Britain, 24:2 (2019), p. 180
- ^ David Whetstone, 'Prisoners past and present had a hand in a new attraction in Hexham', Chronicle Live, 5 December 2015
External links
- Professor Maureen Meikle, Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh
- Sierra Dye, 'Review of The Scottish People, 1490-1625', Innes Review, 35:2 (November 2015)
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