Resilience and Recovery at Royal Courts, 1200–1840

Fabian Persson after completing his doctoral thesis Servants of Fortune in Lund, Fabian Persson is now a Lecturer and Associate Professor in History at Linnaeus University in Sweden. Two recent books are Women at the Early Modern Swedish Court: Power, Risk, and Opportunity (Amsterdam University Press 2021) and Survival and Revival. Sweden's Court and Monarchy, 1718 to 1930 (Palgrave Macmillan 2020).

Munro Price is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Bradford, UK, and specializes in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century French political and diplomatic history. Among his books are Louis XVI and the Comte de Vergennes: Correspondence, 1774-1787 (with John Hardman; Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1998), The Fall of the French Monarchy: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the Baron de Breteuil (London, Macmillan, 2002) and Napoleon: The End of Glory (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014

Cinzia Recca is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Catania, Italy, in the Department of Education. She recently published a book regarding the queenship of Maria Carolina of Naples through the analysis of her diary (The diary of Maria Carolina of Naples,1781-1785.New evidence of Queenship at Court Palgrave McMillan, 2017).