Chapter 1: The Tudor and Stuart Consorts: Power, Influence, Dynasty.- Part I: Tudor Consorts.- Chapter 2: The Tudor Consorts: History and Memory.- Chapter 3: Elizabeth of York: Tudor Trophy Wife.- Chapter 4: Katherine of Aragon: Diligent Diplomat and Learned Queen.- Chapter 5: Anne Boleyn: Traditionalist and Reformer.- Chapter 6: Jane Seymour: Saintly Queen.- Chapter 7: Anne of Cleves: Survivor Queen.- Chapter 8: Katherine Howard: Victim?.- Chapter 9: Katherine Parr: Wartime Consort and Author.- Chapter 10: Philip II of Spain: King, Consort, and Son.- Chapter 11: The Literary Afterlives of the Tudor Consorts.- Part II: Stuart Consorts.- Chapter 12: The Stuart Consorts and Scotland, 1603–1707.- Chapter 13: Anna of Denmark: Daughter, Wife, Sister, and Mother of Kings.- Chapter 14: Henrietta Maria: Dangerous Consort.- Chapter 15: Elizabeth and Dorothy Cromwell: Interreginas.- Chapter 16: Catherine of Braganza: The Politician.- Chapter 17: Mary Beatrice of Modena: A Queen Observed.-Chapter 18: George of Denmark: The Quiet Protestant Hero.- Chapter 19: The Stuart Consorts, 1603–1714: Representation, Agency, and Anxiety.

"This important and engaging volume asks crucial questions about the meaning and exercise of power of the Tudor and Stuart consorts. Carefully nuanced studies interrogate the individuality and agency of the women and men—some well-known, others remarkably little studied—who fulfilled this role in the premodern period. Critically, this impressive collection offers a far deeper and much-needed analysis of the office of consort, recognising it as a critical component of early modern monarchy.”–Susan Broomhall, Australian Catholic University, AustraliaThis book examines the lives and tenures of all the consorts of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs of England between 1485 and 1714, as well as the wives of the two Lords Protector during the Commonwealth. The figures in Tudor and Stuart Consorts are both incredibly familiar—especially the six wives of Henry VIII—and exceedingly unfamiliar, such as George of Denmark, the husband of Queen Anne. These innovative and authoritative biographies recognise the important role consorts played in a period before constitutional monarchy: in addition to correcting popular assumptions that are based on limited historical evidence, the chapters provide a fuller picture of the role of consort that goes beyond discussions of exceptionalism and subversion. This volume and its companions reveal the changing nature of English consortship from the Norman Conquest to today.Aidan Norrie is Lecturer in History and Programme Leader at the University Campus North Lincolnshire, UK, and the Managing Editor of The London Journal.Carolyn Harris is Instructor in History at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, Canada, and a regular royal commentator in Canadian media.J.L. Laynesmith is Visiting Research Fellow in Medieval Studies at the University of Reading, UK.Danna R. Messer is Senior Acquisitions Editor at Arc Humanities Press, and the Executive Editor of The Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages.Elena Woodacre is Reader in Renaissance History at the University of Winchester, UK, Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Studies Journal, and the founder of the Royal Studies Network.

“This important and engaging volume asks crucial questions about the meaning and exercise of power of the Tudor and Stuart consorts. Carefully nuanced studies interrogate the individuality and agency of the women and men—some well-known, others remarkably little studied—who fulfilled this role in the premodern period. Critically, this impressive collection offers a far deeper and much-needed analysis of the office of consort, recognising it as a critical component of early modern monarchy.” (Susan Broomhall, Australian Catholic University, Australia)“These readable and incisive essays bring to life the astonishing range of consorts in the Tudor and Stuart periods, including the six wives of Henry VIII, two foreign princes, and even the wives of Oliver Cromwell and his son. Consorts’ fertility (or lack of it) shaped national stories, but this collection shows that they mattered in other ways too and how they contributed to the political, cultural, and religious life of England and Scotland.” (Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University, UK)

Examines the history of the English monarchy through the lives and legacies of royal consorts Includes individual chapters on every Tudor and Stuart consort, as well as the wives of the two Lords Protector Reflects on the challenges of different periods of history and the impact on the lives and tenures of consorts

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