This is the first book to offer a comparison of these two famous Tudor queens as princesses, suggesting that their early lives need to be more closely examined together. It offers a detailed case study of the four extant dedications that Elizabeth Tudor wrote to accompany manuscript translations that she gave to Henry VIII, his then wife, Katherine Parr, and to Elizabeth's brother Edward (VI of England) as New Year’s gifts from 1545 to 1548. Additionally, it seeks to compare Elizabeth with her sister Mary, beginning with pre-accession dedications given to each of them, exploring two of Mary's own translations, moving to their typical patterns of New Year's gift giving, and ending on the textual transmission of their translations that were later published in 1548. It argues that Elizabeth’s dedications to her family, while participating in the tradition of giving books, were unique and in the dedications she intended not only to represent her loyalty but also to stabilize her position within the royal family.
- Front Cover
- Front matter
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title-page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Body
- Introduction: Partners in Both Book and Manuscript
- Chapter 1. Pre-accession Book Dedications to Mary and Elizabeth
- Dedication Dating
- Dedicating to a Princess
- Chapter 2. Mary’s Pre-accession Translations
- Mary’s Translation of St. Thomas Aquinas
- Mary’s Translation of Erasmus’ Paraphrase on the Gospel of John
- A Reflection on Elizabeth
- Chapter 3. Elizabeth’s Pre-accession Translations
- 1545 Dedication to Katherine Parr
- 1546 Dedication to Katherine Parr
- 1546 Dedication to Henry VIII
- Dedication to King Edward
- Lost Translations
- Chapter 4. New Year’s Gifts Given and Received by Mary and Elizabeth
- Sources for New Year’s Gifts
- Tudor Gift Exchange
- Handmade Gifts
- Chapter 5. Publishing Princess Elizabeth
- John Bale and Elizabeth
- James Cancellar and Elizabeth
- Thomas Bentley and Elizabeth
- Roger Ward and Elizabeth
- Thomas Blunvile and Lady Katherine Paget
- Conclusion
- Back matter
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