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This chapter explores what Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria’s confessional identities meant politically and artistically, and how their identities fit into a larger framework of representations of Catholicism, female power and queenship. It explores not only the historical facts of the Reformation, but also the myths that informed people’s fears of Catholic plots against the English church. This chapter also considers how the queens used Catholicism and the images of the sacred feminine in the court entertainments they commissioned. Finally, the chapter concludes with a consideration of Catholic models of female autonomy, early modern stereotypes of Catholicism as a religion, and the ways in which fears of Catholicism and the Catholic woman influence attitudes toward the early Stuart queens.
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Dunn-Hensley, S. (2017). Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria: Catholic Queens in a Protestant Land. In: Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria. Queenship and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63227-8_2
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