She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth (65 page)

Among the primary sources quoted in ‘New Beginnings’ are the
Calendar of State Papers, Spain
, vols 11–13, ed. R. Tyler (1916–54), which include the Italian eyewitness account of Mary’s proclamation, as well as the despatches of the imperial ambassadors and letters from Philip of Spain and his entourage in England; and the
Calendar of State Papers, Venice
, vols 5–6, ed. R. Brown (1873–7), for Giovanni Michieli’s remarkable pen-portrait of Mary in 1557, as well as another by his predecessor as ambassador, Giacomo Soranzo, in 1554. Both sources are available at
British
History Online
(http://www.british-history.ac.uk), as is the
Diary
of Henry Machyn, Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London
, ed. J. G. Nichols, Camden Society, 42 (1848). See also ‘The
Vita Mar
iae Angliae Reginae
of Robert Wingfield of Brantham’, ed. and trans. D. MacCulloch,
Camden Miscellany
, 28, Camden Society, 4th series, 29 (1984), 181–301;
The Chronicle of Queen Jane, and of
Two Years of Queen Mary
, ed. J. G. Nichols, Camden Society, 48 (1850); and
Tudor Royal Proclamations
, ed. P. L. Hughes and J. F. Larkin, 3 vols (1964–9). For John Knox’s
First Blast of the Trum
pet
, see above, under ‘Beginnings’; John Aylmer’s
An Harbour for
Faithful and True Subjects Against the Late Blown Blast Concerning
the Government of Women
, published in 1559, can be read at
Early
English Books Online
(http://eebo.chadwyck.com).

For Jane Grey and the crisis of 1553, see E. Ives,
Lady Jane Grey:
A Tudor Mystery
(2009). For Mary, see the work of J. M. Richards:
Mary Tudor
(2008); ‘Mary Tudor as “Sole Quene”?: Gendering Tudor Monarchy’,
Historical Journal
, 40 (1997), 895–924; and ‘Mary Tudor: Renaissance Queen of England’, in
‘High and
Mighty Queens’ of Early Modern England: Realities and Represen
tations
, ed. C. Levin, D. Barrett-Graves and J. Eldridge Carney (2003), 27–44. Also important are C. Beem,
The Lioness Roared:
The Problems of Female Rule in English History
(2006), chapter 2; G. Redworth, ‘“Matters Impertinent to Women”: Male and Female Monarchy under Philip and Mary’,
English Historical
Review
, 112 (1997), 593–613; and E. Russell, ‘Mary Tudor and Mr Jorkins’,
Historical Research
, 63 (1990), 263–76. Useful articles on specific moments are A. Whitelock and D. MacCulloch, ‘Princess Mary’s Household and the Succession Crisis, July 1553’,
Historical
Journal
, 50 (2007), 265–87; A. Hunt, ‘The Monarchical Republic of Mary I’,
Historical Journal
, 52 (2009), 557–72; and J. D. Alsop, ‘The Act for the Queen’s Regal Power, 1554’,
Parliamentary History
, 13 (1994), 261–76.

More generally, see D. Loades,
Mary Tudor: A Life
(1989), and his
Mary Tudor: The Tragical History of the First Queen of England
(2006); E. Duffy,
Fires of Faith: Catholic England Under Mary Tudor
(2009); and recent biographies by Anna Whitelock,
Mary Tudor:
England’s First Queen
(2009), and Linda Porter,
Mary Tudor: The
First Queen
(2007). For the twelfth-century queen Urraca of Castile, see B. F. Reilly,
The Kingdom of León-Castilla under Queen
Urraca
(1982); and for Isabella of Castile, see J. Edwards,
Ferdi
nand and Isabella
(2005). For Eleanor of Aquitaine and courtly love, see R.V.Turner,
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France, Queen
of England
(2009), and Ruth Harvey, ‘Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Troubadours’, in
The World of Eleanor of Aquitaine: Literature
and Society in Southern France Between the Eleventh and Thirteenth
Centuries
, ed. C. Léglu and M. Bull (2005), 101–14. As a starting-point for the extensive literature on Elizabeth I, see C. Haigh,
Elizabeth I
(2nd edition, 1998); and for the queen’s speeches see
Elizabeth I: Collected Works
, ed. L.S.Marcus, J. Mueller and M. B. Rose (2000).