Monarchy & Money Episode on Court Economy: Interview with Fabian Persson (Linnaeus University)

The mini series within the Royal Studies Podcast on Monarchy & Money is hosted by Charlotte Backerra from the University of Klagenfurt in Austria, and Cathleen Sarti from the University of Oxford in the UK. In these Monarchy & Money episodes, they are talking with scholars on why economic questions are important to understand monarchical rule, and how royals are interacting with the economies of their kingdoms and beyond their territories. They are also always happy to hear about research into economic, financial, and business activities of monarchies and dynastic rulers of all kind.Guest Bio:After completing his doctoral thesis Servants of Fortune in Lund, Fabian Persson is now Professor in History at Linnaeus University in Sweden. His main expertise lies in the history of the early modern Swedish court but he has also written on patronage, corruption, dynasty, royal bodies alive as well as dead and court mourning. He is currently finishing monographs on hunting at court, space at court, and “Modernizing Monarchy”. He is also editing an anthology on court ordinances and another on female succession.His publications in English include Survival and Revival. Sweden's Court and Monarchy, 1718 to 1930 (Palgrave Macmillan 2020), Women at the Early Modern Swedish Court: Power, Risk, and Opportunity (Amsterdam University Press 2021), and Resilience and Recovery at Royal Courts, 1200–1840 (edited volume together with Cinzia Recca and Munro Price, Palgrave Macmillan 2023).