Mary Tudor

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.

Susan Doran, Thomas Freeman

List of Maps and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Abbreviations 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 Burning Zeal: Mary Tudor and the Marian persecution; T.Freeman Reassessing Mary Tudor: Some Concluding Points; J.Richards Appendix: List of the Marian martyrs Further Reading.