This book gathers contributions on the later Stuart queens and queen consorts. It seeks to re-insert Henrietta Maria, Catherine of Braganza, Mary of Modena, Mary II, Anne, and Maria Clementina Sobieska into the mainstream of Stuart and early Georgian studies, concentrating on the later Stuart queens from the restoration of King Charles II (who married Catherine of Braganza in 1662) until the death of Maria Clementina Sobieska in 1735, who was married to James Francis Edward Stuart, the titular King James III, otherwise known as the Old Pretender. It showcases these womens roles as queen consorts and as ruling queens in Britain and Europe, and reveals how their positions allowed them to act as power-brokers, diplomats, patrons, and religious trendsetters during their lifetimes. It also explores their impact in early modern Britain and Europe by assessing their influence in religion, political culture, and the promotion of patronage.
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Reputation of Dowager Queen
Henrietta Maria and the Restoration Monarchy.
Chapter 3: Catherine of
Braganza, Queen Dowager of England, 1685-1692: Catholicism and Political
Agency.
Chapter 4: Catherine of Braganēa, dowager queen of Englands
Anglophile Counsel in Portugal, 1693-1705.
Chapter 5: Mary of Modena:
Patronage, Poetry, and Power.
Chapter 6: Contesting Catholic Motherhood:
Mary Beatrice of Modena, The Glorious Revolution, and Queenly Agency.-
Chapter 7: Mary II, Poetry and the Construction of Queenship, 1677-1695.-
Chapter 8: A World of Interiors: Mary IIs Patronage of the Decorative Arts.-
Chapter 9: The Architectural Works Commissioned at Hampton Court by Queen
Mary II and Queen Anne.
Chapter 10: Sickly and Spent: Reassessing the Life
and Afterlife of Anne of Great Britain, 1702-1714.
Chapter 11: The crown
can never have too many liveings: Queen Annes patronage of the clergy,
17021714.
Chapter 12: La Terrible Catastrofe: political reactions to the
estrangement of Maria Clementina Sobieska and James III, 1725-27.
Chapter
13: A Crown of Everlasting Glory: the Afterlife of Maria Clementina
Sobieska in Material and Visual Culture.
Eilish Gregory is Little Company of Mary Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Catholic Studies in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Durham. Michael C. Questier is Honorary Chair at the Centre for Catholic Studies, University of Durham, UK.
