Mid-Tudor Queenship and Memory

Valerie Schutte is a specialist on Tudor queens. Jessica S. Hower is Associate Professor of History at Southwestern University, USA.

• Introduction; Jessica S. Hower.- Princely Humanism at the Accession of Mary Tudor; Matthew Tibble.- “As the Kinges of this Realme her most noble Progenitours”: Historical (Self-) Fashioning at the Accession Moment; Jessica S. Hower.- Anointing Judith: Liturgy, Music, and the Coronation of Mary I; Daniel Bennett Page.- Mary Tudor: Royal Castilian Images Promote Tudor Legitimacy and Power; Louisa Woodville.- Wyatt’s Rebellion: History, Memory, and Representation; William B. Robison.- “Word of a Prince”: Collaborative Authorship in Mary I’s Guildhall Speech; Moira Duncan.- Newton’s Three Body Problem Acted on the Stage: Mary I and Lady Jane Grey in Restoration and Early Georgian Theater; Courtney Herber.- Representations of Edward Underhill at the Accessions of Jane Grey and Mary Tudor; Valerie Schutte.- “A wonder lasts nine days”: Typology, Romance, Politics, and Religion in Tudor Rose and Lady Jane; Carolyn Colbert.- The Great English Queen-Off: Lady Jane Grey and MaryI in Historical Fiction; Stephanie Russo.

“Each essay is well-written, packed with information and analysis, and adds to the debate on how Mary manifested queenship, as well as suggesting what approach Jane might have taken had she had a longer period to express her royal image. Had the arguments been brought together in an overarching essay fulfilling the introduction's promise of a comparison of approaches to queenship, then this excellent volume would have become more than the sum of its parts.” (Melita Thomas, Royal Studies Journal, Vol. 11 (2), 2024)