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The co-editors introduce the entire collection as well as the first volume, in more specific detail, laying out its aims and scopes, contribution to the existing scholarly literature, central arguments and findings, and potential areas of new research.

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    Judith Richards, “Examples and Admonitions: What Mary Demonstrated for Elizabeth,” in Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth, ed. Alice Hunt and Anna Whitelock (Baskingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 32.

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    Jonathan McGovern, “A Herald’s Account of Mary I’s Oration at the Guildhall (1 February 1554),” Notes and Queries 66, no. 3 (September 2019): 387–388, at 388.

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    Cited below.

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    Richard Grafton, A Chronicle at large and meere History of the affayres of Englande and Kinges of the same, deduced from the Creation of the worlde, vnto the first habitation of thys Islande; and so by continuance vnto the first yere of the reigne of our most deere and souereigne Lady Queene Elizabeth: collected out of sundry Aucthors, whose names are expressed in the next Page of this leafe (London: 1569), 1333.

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    Judith M. Richards, “Mary Tudor as ‘Sole Queene’?: Gendering Tudor Monarchy,” The Historical Journal 40, no. 4 (December 1997): 895–924; Richards, Mary Tudor (London: Routledge, 2008); Charles Beem, The Lioness Roared: The Problems of Female Rule in English History (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006); Susan Doran and Thomas S. Freeman, eds., Mary Tudor: Old and New Perspectives (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011); Valerie Schutte, Mary I and the Art of Book Dedications: Royal Women, Power, and Persuasion (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015); Sarah Duncan and Schutte, eds., The Birth of a Queen: Essays on the Quincentenary of Mary I (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016); Duncan, Mary I: Gender, Power, and Ceremony in the Reign of England’s First Queen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); Alexander Samson, Mary and Philip: The Marriage of Tudor England and Habsburg Spain (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020).

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    Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980); Dale Hoak, Tudor Political Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995); Tatiana C. String and Marcus Bull, eds., Tudorism: Historical Imagination and the Appropriation of the Sixteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).

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    Alice Hunt and Anna Whitelock, eds., Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010); Schutte, Princesses Mary and Elizabeth Tudor and the Gift Book Exchange (Amsterdam: Arc Humanities Press, 2021). In this we follow on from Beem, whose landmark book on female kingship in England included a chapter on Mary, but declined to include one on Elizabeth, see The Lioness Roared—a remarkable and telling decision.

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    Carole Levin, The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994); Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose, eds., Elizabeth I: Collected Works (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000); Catherine Loomis, The Death of Elizabeth I: Remembering and Reconstructing the Virgin Queen (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010); Alessandra Petrina and Laura Tosi, Representations of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Culture (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011); Donatella Montini and Iolanda Plescia, ed. Elizabeth I in Writing: Language, Power and Representation in Early Modern England (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018); Julia M. Walker, ed. Dissing Elizabeth: Negative Representations of Gloriana (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998); Susan Doran and Thomas F. Freeman, eds., The Myth of Elizabeth (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); Julia M. Walker, The Elizabeth Icon, 1603–2003 (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004); Estelle Paranque, ed., Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France: Reputation, Reinterpretation, and Reincarnation (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019); Janet Arnold, Queen Elizabeth’s Wardrobe Unlock’d: The Inventories of the Wardrobe of Robes Prepared in July 1600 (Leeds: Maney, 1988); Jane Lawson, ed., The Elizabethan New Year’s Gift Exchanges, 1559–1603 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013); Nicholas Canny, ed., The Oxford History of the British Empire: The Origins of Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998); David Armitage, The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000); Charles Beem, ed. The Foreign Relations of Elizabeth I (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011); Rayne Allinson, A Monarchy of Letters: Royal Correspondence and English Diplomacy In the Reign of Elizabeth I (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); Carlo M. Bajetta, Guillaume Coatalen, and Jonathan Gibson, ed. Elizabeth I’s Foreign Correspondence: Letters, Rhetoric, and Politics (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014); Paranque, Elizabeth I of England Through Valois Eyes: Power, Representation, and Diplomacy in the Reign of the Queen, 1558–1588 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019); Carlo M. Bajetta, ed. and trans. Elizabeth I’s Italian Letters (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017); Michael Dobson and Nicola J. Watson, England’s Elizabeth: An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002); Susan Doran and Thomas S. Freeman, eds., Tudors and Stuarts on Film: Historical Perspectives (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009); Sue Parrill and William B. Robison, The Tudors on Film and Television (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 1998); Robison, ed., History, Fiction, and The Tudors: Sex, Politics, Power, and Artistic License in the Showtime Television Series (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016); Elizabeth Evenden-Kenyon, “Mary Tudor - From the Page to the Screen: Visual Transposition and Transformation of Queen Mary I of England in Carlos, Rey Emperador,” Journal of European Television History & Culture 10, no. 19 (2021): 16–27.

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    Levin, Jo Eldridge Carney, and Debra Barrett-Graves, eds., “High and Mighty Queens” of Early Modern England: Realities and Representations (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); David Loades, Mary Tudor: The Tragical History of the First Queen of England (Kew: National Archives, 2006); Eamon Duffy and Loades, eds., The Church of Mary Tudor: Catholic Christendom 1300–1700 (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006); Beem, The Lioness Roared; Richards, Mary Tudor; Linda Porter, The First Queen of England: The Myth of “Bloody Mary” (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2008); David Loades, Mary Tudor (Gloucestershire: Amberley, 2009); Whitelock, Mary Tudor: England’s First Queen (London: Bloomsbury, 2009); Hunt and Whitelock, eds., Tudor Queenship; Doran and Freeman, eds., Mary Tudor; John Edwards, Mary I: England’s Catholic Queen (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011); Duncan, Mary I; Beem and Dennis Moore, eds., The Name of a Queen: William Fleetwood's Itinerarium ad Windsor (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); Vivienne Westbrook and Evenden, eds., Catholic Renewal and Protestant Resistance in Marian England (London: Routledge, 2015); Schutte, Mary I and the Art of Book Dedications; Carole Levin and Christine Stewart-Nuñez, eds., Scholars and Poets Talk about Queens (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015); Duncan and Schutte, eds., The Birth of a Queen; Samson, Mary and Philip.

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    William Wizeman, The Theology and Spirituality of Mary Tudor’s Church (London: Routledge, 2006); Eamon Duffy, Fires of Faith: Catholic England Under Mary Tudor (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009); John Edwards and Ronald Truman, eds., Reforming Catholicism in the England of Mary Tudor (London: Routledge, 2017); Frederick E. Smith, “Reinventing the Counter-Reformation in Marian England, 1553–1558,” The Historical Journal (2020): 1–23, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X20000394.

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Hower, J.S., Schutte, V. (2022). Introduction. In: Schutte, V., Hower, J.S. (eds) Mary I in Writing. Queenship and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95128-3_1

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