Jemma Field

Jemma Field is a historian and art historian from New Zealand. She studied for her PhD with Erin Griffey at the University of Auckland.[1] She was subsequently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at Brunel University, London.[2] She is currently Associate Director of Research at the Yale Center for British Art.[3]

Anna of Denmark, studio of Adrian Vanson

Field's published work concerns the material culture of Anne of Denmark, queen consort of Scotland, and wife of James VI and I.[4] Like many modern writers she prefers the use of the forename "Anna" instead of "Anne". Her ideas about Anne of Denmark's personal piety and religious views, and the role of her Danish chaplain Johannes Sering, contribute to contemporary debate.[5]

Field examines the ways in which Anne of Denmark expressed her identity and agency through her own dress and bodily ornament, including her jewellery, and also the costume of her servants and household, which reflected both the customs of Scotland and the royal court of Denmark and the House of Oldenburg.[6]

  1. ^ Jemma Field, Anna of Denmark: The Material and Visual Culture of the Stuart Courts (Manchester, 2020), p. x.
  2. ^ See external links.
  3. ^ Erin Griffey, Early Modern Court Culture (Routledge, 2022), p. xxv.
  4. ^ Jemma Field, 'Dressing a Queen: The Wardrobe of Anna of Denmark at the Scottish Court of King James VI, 1590–1603', in Sara Ayres ed.,The Court Historian, 24:2 (2019), pp. 166-7.
  5. ^ Jemma Field, 'Anna of Denmark and the Politics of Religious Identity in Jacobean Scotland and England, c. 1592-1619', Northern Studies, 50 (2019), pp. 87-113.
  6. ^ Sara Ayres, 'Introduction', The Court Historian: The Northern Line: Representing Danish Consorts in Scotland, England and Great Britain, 24:2 (2019), p. 114