The Birth of a Queen

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

Part I  From Princess to Queen.- 

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

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

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

. Part II  Mary as Sole Queen.- 

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

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

. 6. The Queen's Easter Pardons, 1554: Ancient customs and the gift of Thucydides Gary G. Gibbs.- 

. 7. Sovereign Council or Counselled Sovereign: The Marian Conciliar Compromise Joanne Paul.-  

. 8. Culture Under Mary I and Philip  Alexander Samson.- 

. 9. Pregnancy, False Pregnancy, and Questionable Heirs: Mary I and her Echoes Carole Levin.- 

. Part III  Mary's Image, Past and Present.- 

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

. 11. "Well, then...Hail Mary": Mary I in The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyatt (1607) and Lady Jane (1986) Carolyn Colbert.- 

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

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

Sarah Duncan is Associate Professor of History at Spring Hill College,USA and earned her Ph.D. in History from Yale University. Her publicationsinclude Mary I: Gender, Power, andCeremony in the Reign of England's First Queen (2012), articles onqueenship in the reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth I, and an article on Philip ofSpain as king consort.