This book brings together a selection of recent, cutting-edge research which, for the first time, challenges commonplace arguments about Mary and Elizabeth’s relative successes or failures in order to rethink Tudor queenship.
Tabella dei contenuti
‘Partners in throne and grave’; A.Hunt & A.Whitelock PART I: REPUTATIONS Memorializing Mary and Elizabeth; A.Mc Laren PART II: PRECEDENTS AND TRADITIONS Examples and Admonitions: What Mary did for Elizabeth; J.Richards Godly Queens: The Royal Iconographies of Mary and Elizabeth; P.Kewes Reforming Tradition: The Coronations of Mary and Elizabeth; A.Hunt Dressed to Impress; M.Hayward Elizabeth I: An Old Testament King; S.Doran PART III: EDUCATING FOR RULE A Culture of Reverence: Princess Mary’s Household; J.Mc Intosh Christian Women or Sovereign Queens? The Schooling of Mary and Elizabeth; A.Pollnitz PART IV: LOVE AND WAR Our Greatest Hope? European Propaganda and the Spanish Match; C.Streckfuss Power-sharing: The Co-monarchy of Mary and Philip; A.Samson ‘Woman, Warrior, Queen’?; A.Whitelock Courtly Games: Elizabeth and the Kings of France; G.Richardson PART V: LOYALTY AND SERVICE What Happened to Mary’s Councillors?; R.Houlbrooke Below Stairs: Serving the Queen; R.C.Braddock Women, Friendship and Memory; C.Merton
Circa l’autore
ANNA WHITELOCK is a
Lecturer in Early Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. ALICE HUNT is a Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature at the University of Southampton, UK.
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