Research Catalog

Title

Elizabeth and Mary : royal cousins, rival queens / edited by Susan Doran ; British Library lead curator: Andrea Clarke ; British Library curators: Alan Bryson and Karen Limper-Herz.

Publication

• London : British Library Publishing, 2021.
• ©2021

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Doran, Susan
• Clarke, Andrea
• Bryson, Alan
• Limper-Herz, Karen
• British Library, host institution.

Description

303 pages : illustrations (color), map, facsimiles; 28 cm

Summary

"This book seeks to refresh and retell the story of Queen Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots through their own words. Accompanying a major British Library exhibition, brings new insights to the familiar tale of two powerful women whose relationship dominated English and Scottish politics for thirty years. Their personal history and struggle for dynastic pre-eminence are described and explained against the backdrop of religious conflict, rebellion, fear of foreign invasion, espionage and treason. Twelve insightful chapters from leading Tudor scholars and 145 illustrated primary sources chart the queens' relationship as it evolved from mutual curiosity, to suspicion, to lethal enmity. Reproduced in full colour, the sources include letters and documents written in the queens' own hands and recording their speeches and conversations: Mary's ten-page letter written to Elizabeth during captivity and the sonnet she penned the night before her execution, verses composed by Elizabeth in 1569 in response to the Northern Rebellion, and a recently discovered letter sent by Elizabeth to her cousin's request for reconciliation. Alongside letters and documents that bring their story vividly to life are many personal objects closely associated with the two queens, among them an exceptional portrait of Elizabeth I only recently rediscovered and one of her most treasured and personal rings, as well as a hanging embroidered by Mary during her long imprisonment, and the Penicuik Jewels she gave away before her execution"-- Book jacket.

Subject

• Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 > Exhibitions
• Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 > Exhibitions
• Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603
• Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587
• 1542-1603
• Queens > England > Biography
• Queens > Scotland > Biography
• Queens
• Great Britain > History > Elizabeth, 1558-1603 > Exhibitions
• Scotland > History > Mary Stuart, 1542-1567 > Exhibitions
• England
• Great Britain
• Scotland

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• Biographies.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The early years, 1533-1560: Introduction / John Guy -- Elizabeth, 'high and mighty princess of England' and Mary, Queen of Scots (1533-60) / Alan Bryson -- Queenship and gender (catalogue entries 1-36) / Susan Doran -- Two queens in one isle, 1561-1568: Two queens in one isle (1560-8) / Simon Adams -- 'Both the fairest ladies in their countries': Elizabeth and Mary's encounters through portraiture (catalogue entries 37-70) / Charlotte Bolland -- Dangerous times, 1569-1582: 'Now murder and war uprises' (1569-82) / Amy Blakeway -- Religion and reformations (catalogue entries 71-98) / Alec Ryrie -- 'Use but old trust and new diligence', 1583-1588: 'Use but old trust and new diligence' (1583-7) / Stephen Alford -- Surveillance (catalogue entries 99-136) / J.P.D. Cooper -- The final years, 1589-1603: The final years: England, Scotland and the Succession (1588-1603) / Paulina Kewes -- Anglo-Scottish Union: the new Britain (catalogue entries 137-145) / Arthur Williamson -- Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots: afterlives in film / Thomas S. Freeman -- Afterword / Alan Bryson, Andrea Clarke, Susan Doran and Karen Limper-Herz.

Call Number

JFF 22-287

ISBN

• 9780712353489
• 0712353488
• 9780712353533
• 0712353534

OCLC

1271675101

Title

Elizabeth and Mary : royal cousins, rival queens / edited by Susan Doran ; British Library lead curator: Andrea Clarke ; British Library curators: Alan Bryson and Karen Limper-Herz.

Publisher

London : British Library Publishing, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1542-1603

Added Author

Doran, Susan, editor.

Clarke, Andrea, curator.

Bryson, Alan, curator.

Limper-Herz, Karen, curator.

British Library, host institution.

Research Call Number

JFF 22-287