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Centre for European Studies

Dr. Linda Kiernan Knowles
Teaching Fellow, School Office Language Lit & Cult Stud
Adjunct Assistant Professor, History

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications

The mistress and matrimony: attitudes to marriage at the court of Louis XIV. in, editor(s)Christine Meek & Catherine Lawless , Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women: Victims or Viragos?, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2005, [Linda Kiernan] Book Chapter, 2005

'Early Modern Sexuality', 'Seduction', 'The Pill', 'Mistress' and other articles in, editor(s)Jo Eadie , Sexuality: The Essential Glossary, London, New York, Arnold, Oxford University Press, 2004, [Linda Kiernan] Book Chapter, 2004

Linda Kiernan, The Mistress and Matrimony, PaGes, 2001 Journal Article, 2001

Linda Kiernan, Marie-Louise O'Murphy and the Court of Louis XV, Ireland and the Iberian Atlantic, Mobility, involvement and cross-cultural exchange 1580-1823, Seville, Spain, 30 Oct- 1 Nov 2008 Conference Paper,

Linda Kiernan, Vice and Visibility: the imagery of the royal mistress at the court of Louis XIV', Annual Conference, Society for the Study of French History, Trinity College Dublin, June 2009 Conference Paper,

Linda Kiernan, Illusions of Influence: the evolution of the Maitresse Royale, Annual Conference, Society for French Historical Studies, St Louis, Missouri, March 2009 Conference Paper,

Linda Kiernan, From the Parc-aux-Cerfs to the Sainte-Pélagie: Marie-Louise O'Murphy, 1737-1814, Annual Conference, Society for French Historical Studies, Tempe, Arizona, 8-10 April 2010 Conference Paper,

Linda Kiernan, Assessing Informal Power: The Figure of the Maitresse Royale at the Court of Lousi XIV, Annual Conference, Society for Seventeenth-Century Studies, Dublin, September 2008 Conference Paper,

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

Linda Kiernan, Louisa O'Murphy. Louis XV's Irish Mistress, History Ireland, Jan/Feb 2006, 2006 Journal Article, 2006

Linda Kiernan, Queenship in Europe, Review of Queenship in Europe, by Clarissa Campbell Orr , History Review, XIII, 2002 Review, 2002

Linda Kiernan, Lorenzo Valla's Treatise Attack on the Donation of Constantine, History Review, XIII, 2002 Journal Article, 2002

Linda Kiernan, The Menace of the Feminine in French Revolutionary Culture, History Review, XII, 2001 Journal Article, 2001

Research Expertise

Keywords

Cultural History; France, 1660-1815; French Revolution; History and Gender; History of Dress and Costume; Irish in Europe, 1607-1815; Spain, 1600-1800

Recognition

Memberships

Society for French Historical Studies 2010 – present

Association des Etudes Francaises et Francophones d'Irlande

Society for Court Studies

Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies