Unexpected Heirs in Early Modern Europe

Contributes to the study of dynasty in early modern Europe by highlighting the key role of the heir in the political and cultural history of Europe

Demonstrates the significance of heirs as agents of change in early modern Europe through patronage, education, marriage, and religion

Presents a unique focus on the training of possible heirs, especially on humanist educations and the preparation of daughters to be mothers and wives

Autorentext

Valerie Schutte earned her PhD in History from the University of Akron. She is author of Mary I and the Art of Book Dedications: Royal Women, Power, and Persuasion (2015) and co-editor of The Birth of a Queen: Essays on the Quincentenary of Mary I (2016). She has published several articles on the Tudors and book dedications.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- I. Securing a Dynasty.- 2. A Bastard and a Changeling?: England's Edward of Westminster and Delayed Childbirth.- 3. Margaret Tudor, Countess of Richmond and Elizabeth York: Dynastic Competitors or Allies?.- 4. Perceptions of Princesses: Pre-accession Book Dedications to Mary and Elizabeth Tudor.- 5. Fit for a King?: The Gendered Emotional Performances of Catherine de Medici as Dauphine of France, 1536-1547.- 6. Never the Queen: Anne Stuart's Formative Years.- II. Second Sons.- 7. Another Spare to the French Crown: Henry III of France's Self-Representation, Reputation and Royal Authority.- 8. Losing an Unexpected Throne: Deposing Second Sons of the Stuart Dynasty.- 9. Expected, then Passed Over: Second Sons in the French Monarchy of the Seventeenth Century.- III. Unexpected Survival.- 10. A Queen in Constant Motion: Queen Christina of Sweden and the Unexpected Mobility of Sovereignty.- 11. The Unexpected Virgin: The Perpetual Succession Crisis of Elizabeth I.