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Catholic Queen, Protestant Patriarchy

Mary Queen of Scots and the Politics of Gender and Religion

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  1. Kristen Post Walton

    1. Salisbury University, USA

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Kristen Post Walton
    Pages 1-13

  3. Mary’s Return: the State of Scotland, 1558–1562

    • Kristen Post Walton
    Pages 14-48

  4. The English Succession Crisis and Debates about Mary Stewart: Law, National Identity, Citizenship and the Queen’s Two Bodies

    • Kristen Post Walton
    Pages 49-88

  5. From Return to Deposition: Mary, Darnley and Scotland, 1562–1567

    • Kristen Post Walton
    Pages 89-139

  6. A Queen Undone: Justifications of Deposition, Resistance and Imprisonment

    • Kristen Post Walton
    Pages 140-172

  7. Conclusion

    • Kristen Post Walton
    Pages 173-177

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 178-220
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About this book

Mary Stuart is infamous for the mysteries of her reign. Mary ruled in a patriarchal society and married a subject; a Catholic queen who was the only person in her kingdom legally allowed to hear Catholic mass. These contradictions in Mary's life forced her contemporaries to search for new answers about how Scotland should be governed.

Reviews

'An important, indispensable addition to recent studies of Mary Queen of Scots, as it examines most fully how contemporaries struggled to square Mary's gender with patriarchal notions of law, religion, and the nature of political society.' - Dale Hoak, Chancellor Professor of History, College of William& Mary

'It is now difficult to put forward an original view about Mary, Queen of Scots, but Kristen Walton has achieved just this in Catholic Queen, Protestant Patriarchy. This book explores and enhances the debate about gender and authority during Mary's personal rule in Scotland; which is sure to provoke or please readers in equal measure.' - Maureen M. Meikle, University of Sunderland

'Powerful and provocative Kristen Walton's masterful study of Mary Stuart's tenure as a regnant queen of Scotland is the kind of book that revitalizes scholarship and unsettles editors. Invaluable for any historian or literary scholar interested not only in Mary, Elizabeth, and the Reformation, but also in Anglo-Scottish relations, the later Stuarts, and the development of British political theory.' -John Watkins, Journal of British Studies

Authors and Affiliations

  • Salisbury University, USA

    Kristen Post Walton

About the author

KRISTEN P. WALTON has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Salisbury University since obtaining her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001. Her specialization is in Tudor-Stuart British History, and she has published widely on Early Modern Britain, from the Wars of the Roses to the age of the English Civil Wars.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Catholic Queen, Protestant Patriarchy

  • Book Subtitle: Mary Queen of Scots and the Politics of Gender and Religion

  • Authors: Kristen Post Walton

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230285958

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Kristen Post Walton 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-8835-5Published: 28 November 2006

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-54208-6Published: 28 November 2006

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28595-8Published: 28 November 2006

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 220

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Clinical Psychology, History of Early Modern Europe

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