Birth of a Queen

Sarah Duncan is Associate Professor of History at Spring Hill College,USA and earned her Ph.D. in History from Yale University. Her publicationsinclude Mary I: Gender, Power, andCeremony in the Reign of England’s First Queen (2012), articles onqueenship in the reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth I, and an article on Philip ofSpain as king consort.Valerie Schutte earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of Akron, USA. Sheis author of Mary I and theArt of Book Dedications: Royal Women, Power, and Persuasion. She haspublished two articles on Anne Boleyn, an article on The Merchant of Venice,and three articles on royal Tudor women and print.

• Introduction:Princess, Bastard, Queen, Villain Sarah Duncan andValerie Schutte.- PartI  From Princess to Queen.- 1. Princessof Wales? Mary Tudor and the History of English Heirs to the Throne Charles Beem.- 2. Underthe Influence: The Impact of Queenly Book Dedications on Princess Mary Valerie Schutte.- 3. LadyMary to Queen of England: Transformation, Ritual, and the Wardrobe of the Robes Hilary Doda.- .PartII  Mary as Sole Queen.- 4. TheHalf-Blood Princes: Mary I, Elizabeth I, and their Strategies ofLegitimation MaryHill Cole.- 5.‘Aqueen, and by the same title, a king also’: Mary I: Queen-in-Parliament AnnaWhitelock.- 6. TheQueen’s Easter Pardons, 1554: Ancient customs and the gift of Thucydides GaryG. Gibbs.- 7. SovereignCouncil or Counselled Sovereign: The Marian Conciliar Compromise JoannePaul.- 8. CultureUnder Mary I and Philip  AlexanderSamson.-9. Pregnancy,False Pregnancy, and Questionable Heirs: Mary I and her Echoes CaroleLevin.- .PartIII  Mary’s Image, Past and Present.- 10. Unnatural,Unlawful, Ungodly, and Monstrous: Manipulating the Queenly Identities of Mary I and Mary II  AnneMearns.- 11. “Well,then…Hail Mary”: Mary I in The FamousHistory of Sir Thomas Wyatt (1607) and Lady Jane (1986) CarolynColbert.- 12. MarryingMary to the Black Legend: Anti-Catholicism and Anti-Marian Messages in Anglo-American Films About Philip II ofSpain  WilliamB. Robison.- 13. MaryI, Queen of England: Historiographical Essay, 2006 to Present RethaWarnicke.