Amy Lynne Juhala (1969–2024) was an American historian and teacher. Her published works concerned Scotland and the court of James VI and I.
Amy Juhala was born in Philadelphia. She studied for a PhD at the University of Edinburgh with Julian Goodare and Michael Lynch. Her thesis, "The Household and Court of King James VI of Scotland" (2000), remains a useful resource for historians and is frequently cited for its use of the unpublished treasurer's accounts and other manuscript sources,Steven J. Reid, "One King, and Many: New Perspectives on James's Personal Reign in Scotland", Alexander Courtney and Michael Questier, James VI and I: Kingship, Government and Religion (Routledge, 2025), p. 33. and for the identification of royal servants.William Hepburn, The Household and Court of James IV of Scotland (Boydell, 2023), p. 8.Miles Kerr-Peterson & Michael Pearce, "King James VI's English Subsidy and Danish Dowry Accounts", Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, XVI (Boydell, 2020), pp. 13, 17, 27, 34, 41. Juhala's thesis also adds nuance to historians' understanding of the development of the court and privy chamber in England after the Union of the Crowns.Susan Doran, From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I (Oxford University Press, 2024), p. 219. She taught at the University of Mary and Bismarck State College in North Dakota.Miles Kerr-Peterson and Steven J. Reid, James VI and Noble Power in Scotland, 1578–1603 (Routledge, 2017), p. xvi.
Selected publications "For the King Favours Them Very Strangely", Miles Kerr-Peterson and Steven J. Reid, James VI and Noble Power in Scotland (Routledge, 2017). "An Advantageous Alliance: Edinburgh and the Court of James VI", Julian Goodare & Alasdair A. MacDonald, Sixteenth-Century Scotland (Brill, 2008).
References
External links Amy L. Juhala, "The Household and Court of King James VI of Scotland, 1567–1603", University of Edinburgh PhD thesis, 2000 University of Edinburgh, Amy Juhala: Interview