SUSAN DORAN is a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of many books and articles on the Tudor period, including Monarchy and Matrimony: The Courtships of Elizabeth I, Elizabeth I in the British Library Historic Lives series and Mary Queen of Scots: An Illustrated Life. She is the co-editor (with Thomas S. Freeman) of The Myth of Elizabeth and Tudors and Stuarts on Film (Palgrave Macmillan).THOMAS S. FREEMAN was the Research Officer for the British Academy John Foxe Project and is now affiliated with the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University. He is the co-editor (with Thomas F. Mayer) of Martyrs and Martyrdom in England, 1400-1700 and (with Susan Doran) of The Myth of Elizabeth and Tudors and Stuarts on Film. He is the co-author (with Elizabeth Evenden) of Religion and the Book in Early Modern England: The Making of Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs'.

'This excellent collection of essays should do much to question assumptions and dispel prejudice, as well as making a substantial contribution to our knowledge and understanding of Mary and her reign.' -Lucy Wooding, King's College London, Recusant History

• List of Maps and FiguresAcknowledgementsNotes on the ContributorsAbbreviationsIntroduction; T.FreemanPART I: OLD PERSPECTIVES A 'Sharp Rod' of Chastisement: Mary I Through Protestant Eyes During the Reign of Elizabeth I; S.DoranHer Majesty, Which is Now in Heaven: Mary Tudor and the Elizabethan Catholics; V.HoulistonThe 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.GrantInventing 'Bloody Mary': Perceptions of Mary Tudor from Restoration to the Twentieth Century; T.FreemanPART II: NEW PERSPECTIVESAd Omne Virtutum Genus?: Mary Between Piety, Pedagogy and Praise in Early-Tudor Humanism; A.W.TaylorReligion and Translation at the Court of Henry VIII: Princess Mary, Katherine Parr and the Paraphrases of Erasmus; A.PollnitzMaids and Wives: Representing Female Rule during the Reign of Mary Tudor; T.BetteridgeThe Religious Policy of Mary I; W.Wizeman, SJBurning Zeal: Mary Tudor and the Marian persecution; T.FreemanReassessing Mary Tudor: Some Concluding Points; J.RichardsAppendix: List of the Marian martyrsFurther Reading.