Queens & power in medieval and early modern England / edited by Carole Levin and Robert Bucholz.

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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:xxxiii, 326 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: It's good to be queen / Robert Bucholz & Carole Levin
  • "Greater by marriage" : the matrimonial career of the Empress Matilda / Charles Beem
  • Widow princess or neglected queen? Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII, and English public opinion, 1533-1536 / Timothy G. Elston
  • "Most godly heart fraight with al mercie" : queens' mercy during the reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth I / Sarah Duncan
  • Princess Elizabeth travels across her kingdom : in life, in text, and on stage / Carole Levin
  • Marriage a la mode, 1559 : Elisabeth de Valois, Elizabeth I, and the changing practice of dynastic marriage / John Watkins
  • Queen Solomon : an international Elizabeth I in 1569 / Linda S. Shenk
  • The virgin and the widow : the political finesse of Elizabeth I and Catherine de' Medici / Elaine Kruse
  • Crafting queens : early modern readings of Esther / Michele Osherow
  • "Shine like an angel with thy starry crown" : Queen Elizabeth the angelic / Anna Riehl
  • Shakespeare's Queen Cleopatra : an act of translation / Richardine Woodall
  • "She is the man, and raignes" : popular representations of Henrietta Maria during the English civil wars / Michelle A. White
  • Sex and the single queen : the erotic lives of Elizabeth Tudor in seventeenth-century England / Marjorie Swann
  • The "stomach of a queen," or size matters : gender, body image, and the historical reputation of Queen Anne / Robert Bucholz
  • Two poems / Amber Harris Leichner.