Afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots

Steven J. Reid is Professor of Early Modern Scottish History and Culture at the University of Glasgow. He has published widely on intellectual, religious and political culture in the reigns of Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI and I. His books include Humanism and Calvinism (Ashgate, 2011), which won the Senior Hume Brown Prize in Scottish History, and The Early Life of James: A Long Apprenticeship 1566-1585 (Birlinn, 2023).

• Introduction: The Afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots: Themes and Paradigms - Steven J. ReidPart 1: Mary in Contemporary Objects Chapter 1. Damnatio Memoriae: Mary, Queen of Scots’ Iconography and the Ham House Portrait of Sir John Maitland of Thirlestane - David A.H.B. TaylorChapter 2. New Perspectives on the Sheffield Portraits of Mary, Queen of Scots including the Discovery of a New Related Contemporary Portrait - Caroline RaeChapter 3. Memorializing (in) Mary, Queen of Scots’ Books of Hours - Emily WingfieldChapter 4. The Afterlives of Mary’s letters - Jade Scott and Alison WigginsPart 2: Mary in Literature and HistoryChapter 5. Editing and Collecting Mary Queen of Scots in the Eighteenth Century: James Anderson (1662-1728) and Dr William Hunter (1718-1783) - Michelle H. CraigChapter 6. The Battle for Memory: the Reception of Mary, Queen of Scots in the Eighteenth-century Periodical Press - Rhona BrownChapter 7. ‘Deeply impressed upon the imagination’: the Return of Mary in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - Gerard CarruthersChapter 8. ‘A tracked and hunted creature’: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Histories of David Hay Fleming, Andrew Lang, Gordon Donaldson and Antonia Fraser - Catriona M. M. MacdonaldChapter 9. Re-imagining Mary, Queen of Scots in Contemporary Scottish Women’s Writing - Nia ClarkPart 3: Collecting and Displaying MaryChapter 10. Collecting and Exhibiting Marian Objects in Nineteenth-Century Britain - Julie HolderChapter 11. ‘The most interesting apartment in Scotland’: the History and Presentation of Mary, Queen of Scots’ Chambers at the Palace of Holyroodhouse - Deborah ClarkeChapter 12. Materialising Mary in a Museum: Marian Objects and Authenticity - Anna GroundwaterPart 4: Mary in MediaChapter 13. Minstrels of Maelstroms: Mary’s Musical Afterlives - Tim DuguidChapter 14. The Transformations of Mary, Queen of Scots in Early Cinema, 1895-1923 - Ian Goode and Stephen McBurneyChapter 15. Long Live The Queen: The Afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots in Contemporary Visual Culture - Daniel Fountain and Alicia Hughes

This is the most significant contribution to the study of Mary, Queen of Scots in a generation. Nineteen sparkling chapters, from an array of disciplinary angles, carry us on an enthralling journey through the contested cultural afterlives of Mary via material survivals, visual, literary and cinematic representations.