Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France

Estelle Paranque is Lecturer in Early Modern History at New College of the Humanities and an Honorary Research Fellow within the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of Elizabeth I of England through Valois Eyes: Power, Representation, and Diplomacy in the Reign of the Queen, 1558–1588 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

“This artfully assembled collection will hopefully spur more research and critical thinking into how culture affects our relationships to the past outside of historiographies.” (Anastasia Utke, Royal Studies Journal, Vol. 7 (2), 2020)

• 1. Introduction: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Power of Memory.- Part I Reputation in Premodern Literature.- 2. Boudicca and Elizabeth Rally Their Troops: "Two Queens Both Alike in Dignity".- 3. Princess, Duchess, Queen: Mary Tudor As Represented in a Seventeenth-Century French Love Story.- 4. Virtue Betray’d: Women Writing Anne Boleyn in the Long Eighteenth Century.- 5. “Of Hopes Great as Himselfe:” Tudor and Stuart Legacies of Edward VI.- 6. Chivalry, Nobility, and Romance: Richard Hurd and the Ideal Elizabethan Past.- Part II Reinterpretation in Art.- 7. Charles IX of France or the Anti-King: His Legacy in Plays and Chronicles in Seventeenth- and Long Eighteenth-Century France.- 8. Remembering—and Forgetting—Regicide: The Commemoration of the 30th January, 1649–1660.- 9. Henrietta Maria, “Queen of Tears”?: Picturing and Performing the Cavalier Queen.- 10. Romantic Recreations: Remembering Stuart Monarchy in Nineteenth-Century Fancy Dress Entertainments.- Part III Reincarnation in Popular Culture.- 11. She-Wolf or Feminist Heroine? Representations of Margaret of Anjou in Modern History and Literature.- 12. Reincarnating the Forgotten Francis II: From Puerile Pubescent to Heroic Heartthrob.- 13. Daenerys Targaryen as Queen Elizabeth I’s Spiritual Daughter.- 14. 50 Shades of Elizabeth; or, “Doing History” in Pop Fiction.- 15. Conniving Queen, Frivolous Wife, or Romantic Heroine? The Afterlife of Queen Henrietta Maria.- 16. "Let them eat cake, she says": Assessing Marie-Antoinette’s Image.