Fulbright Public Lecture: 'Boudica's Daughters: Queens and Nationalism in the Tudor/Stuart Age.'

Fifteen hundred years separated them, but two queens encouraged their troops against foreign invaders of a different religion, with what was reported to be stirring rhetoric.  The queens were first century Boudica, head of the Celtic Iceni tribe against the Romans, and Queen Elizabeth I during the time of the Spanish Armada. This talk examines how both these queens came to be used as examples to inspire British nationalism in the Tudor and Stuart era.

Carole Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History and Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at the University of Nebraska. On leave, she is currently a Fulbright Scholar at the University of York. She has published many books on politics and culture in the English Renaissance including The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power, The Reign of Elizabeth I, and Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture. She has held fellowships at the Newberry Library in Chicago and the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC.