The Birth of a Queen

1. Introduction: Princess, Bastard, Queen, Villain
Sarah Duncan, Valerie Schutte

Part I. From Princess to Queen

2. Princess of Wales? Mary Tudor and the History of English Heirs to the Throne
Charles Beem

3. Under the Influence: The Impact of Queenly Book Dedications on Princess Mary
Valerie Schutte

4. Lady Mary to Queen of England: Transformation, Ritual, and the Wardrobe of the Robes
Hilary Doda

Part II. Mary as Sole Queen

5. The Half-Blood Princes: Mary I, Elizabeth I, and Their Strategies of Legitimation
Mary Hill Cole

6. “A queen, and by the same title, a king also”: Mary I: Queen-in-Parliament
Anna Whitelock

7. The Queen’s Easter Pardons, 1554: Ancient Customs and the Gift of Thucydides
G. Gibbs

8. Sovereign Council or Counseled Sovereign: The Marian Conciliar Compromise
Joanne Paul

9. Culture Under Mary I and Philip
Alexander Samson

10. Pregnancy, False Pregnancy, and Questionable Heirs: Mary I and Her Echoes
Carole Levin

Part III. Mary’s Image, Past and Present

11. Unnatural, Unlawful, Ungodly, and Monstrous: Manipulating the Queenly Identities of Mary I and Mary II
Anne Mearns

12. “Well, then … Hail Mary”: Mary I in The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyatt (1607) and Lady Jane (1986)
Carolyn Colbert

13. Marrying Mary to the Black Legend: Anti-Catholicism and Anti-Marian Messages in Anglo-American Films about Philip II of Spain
William B. Robison

14. Mary I, Queen of England: Historiographical Essay, 2006 to Present
Retha Warnicke

Keywords: History, History of Britain and Ireland, Gender Studies, Cultural History, Political History