Courtship, slander, and treason : studies of Mary Queen of Scots, the Fourth Duke of Norfolk, and a few of their contemporaries, 1568-87 /
Freeman, Arthur,1938-author.
Freeman, Janet Ing,author.
"Presents two independent but complementary studies of episodes in the career of Mary Queen of Scots after her flight to England in 1568: her 'forbidden match' with the ranking English peer Thomas Howard, fourth Duke of Norfolk, in 1568-72, and her own trial, execution, and funeral in 1586-87. Not primarily intended as a retelling or latter-day reinterpretation of the fatal events - Norfolk's execution in 1572 extinguishing the last dukedom of Queen Elizabeth's reign, and Mary's the stuff of romance, remonstrance, and furious debate over more than four centuries-these essays are essentially historiographical, for the first time closely examining a range of contemporary printed and manuscript material." -- Website.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-389) and index.
"Presents two independent but complementary studies of episodes in the career of Mary Queen of Scots after her flight to England in 1568: her 'forbidden match' with the ranking English peer Thomas Howard, fourth Duke of Norfolk, in 1568-72, and her own trial, execution, and funeral in 1586-87. Not primarily intended as a retelling or latter-day reinterpretation of the fatal events - Norfolk's execution in 1572 extinguishing the last dukedom of Queen Elizabeth's reign, and Mary's the stuff of romance, remonstrance, and furious debate over more than four centuries-these essays are essentially historiographical, for the first time closely examining a range of contemporary printed and manuscript material." -- Website.
Prefatory note -- Mary Queen of Scots and the Fourth Duke of Norfolk: the literature of the 'Forbidden Match', 1568-73. I. Background -- II. The first printed tract -- III. Replies to A Discourse -- IV. A weekend in October -- V. Buchanan and others -- VI. The Catholic counterthrust, 1569-72 -- VII. The trial and the 'Interim' Texts' -- VIII. Execution and epilogue -- Appendices / Arthur Freeman.
The trial and death of Mary Queen of Scots in contemporary report: a codicological study. I. Moving towards Fotheringhay: 1572-86 -- II. Trial, execution, and funeral: 1586-87 -- III. Mary Stuart and Richard Fletcher -- IV. Trial, execution, and funeral: the sources -- V. A postscript to the Narratives: additions to the Strangways Manuscript -- Appendices / Janet Ing Freeman.
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587.
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.
Norfolk, Thomas Howard, Duke of, 1538-1572
Trials (Treason)