‘Mary Tudor: Old and New Perspectives’ edited by Dr Susan Doran and Dr Thomas Freeman will be published in both hardback and paperback on 26th November 2010.
Please note that Lady Jane will not be featured.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan, ‘this collection of interdisciplinary essays examines the origins and growth of Mary Tudor’s historical reputation, from the reign of Elizabeth I up to the 20th century. Re-appraising aspects of her reign that have been misrepresented the book creates a more balanced, objective portrait of England’s last Catholic, and first female, monarch.’ (From Palgrave Macmillan.com)
It contains the following essays (from Palgrave Macmillan.com):
Introduction; T.Freeman
PART I: OLD PERSPECTIVES
A ‘Sharp Rod’ of Chastisement: Mary I Through Protestant Eyes During the Reign of Elizabeth I; S.Doran
Her Majesty, Which is Now in Heaven: Mary Tudor and the Elizabethan Catholics; V.Houliston
The Exclusion Crisis of 1553 and the Elizabethan Succession; P. Kewes
‘Thus Like A Nun, Not Like a Princess Born’: Dramatic Representations of Mary Tudor in the Early Years of the Seventeenth Century; T.Grant
Inventing ‘Bloody Mary’: Perceptions of Mary Tudor from Restoration to the Twentieth Century; T.Freeman
PART II: NEW PERSPECTIVES
Ad Omne Virtutum Genus?: Mary Between Piety, Pedagogy and Praise in Early-Tudor Humanism; A.W.Taylor
Religion and Translation at the Court of Henry VIII: Princess Mary, Katherine Parr and the Paraphrases of Erasmus; A.Pollnitz
Maids and Wives: Representing Female Rule during the Reign of Mary Tudor; T.Betteridge
The Religious Policy of Mary I; W.Wizeman, SJ
Bloody Mary? Mary Tudor and the Prosecution of Heresy; T.Freeman
Reassessing Mary Tudor: Some Concluding Points; J.Richards
Appendix: List of the Marian martyrs’
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