Later Stuart Queens, 1660–1735: Religion, Political Culture, and Patronage

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1 Introduction
2 The Reputation of Dowager Queen Henrietta Maria and the Legitimacy of the Restoration Monarchy
	Introduction
	Henrietta Maria’s Reputation During the English Revolution and Interregnum
	Henrietta Maria’s Reputation at The Restoration Court
	Henrietta Maria’s Second Period of Residence at the Restoration Court: 1662–1665
	Conclusion
3 Catherine of Braganza, Queen Dowager of England, 1685–1692: Catholicism and Political Agency
	Introduction
	Catherine of Braganza on the Eve of Widowhood
	Catherine of Braganza’s Political Agency in the Dowager Court
	The Queen Dowager and Religious Agency
	The Glorious Revolution and Jacobitism
	Conclusion
4 Dynastic Politics: Dowager Queen, Catherine of Braganza, and the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance, 1693–1705
	England: 1685–1692
	Portugal 1693–1705
	War of the Spanish Succession, 1701–1714
	Regency, 1704–1705
	Conclusion
5 Mary Beatrice of Modena: Patronage, Poetry, and Power
	Patronage and Queenship
	Mary Beatrice of Modena: Life of a Catholic Queen
	Mary Beatrice’s Patronage
	Conclusion
6 Contesting Catholic Motherhood: Mary Beatrice of Modena, the “Glorious Revolution,” and Queenly Agency
	Introduction
	Enacting Conception
	Visualising the Queen in Bed
	Performing Marian Fecundity
	Conclusion
7 Mary II, Panegyric and the Construction of Queenship
	Introduction
	1689: A Limited Queen
	1690–1694: A Domestic Queen
	Conclusion
8 World of Interiors: Mary II, the Decorative Arts, and Cultural Transfer
	Introduction
	Mary II’s Interiors in the Netherlands and England
	The Influence of Queen Mary II on English Interiors
	Conclusion
9 The Architectural Works of Hampton Court Palace Under the Reigns of Queen Mary II and Queen Anne
	Introduction
	Mary II and Hampton Court
	Queen Anne, the Drawing Room, and Chapel Royal
	Conclusion
10 ‘Sickly and Spent’: Reassessing the Life and Afterlife of Anne of Great Britain
	Introduction
	The Reputation of a Queen—Anne and Her Historians
	“Rubicund and Bloated”—Anne in the Eighteenth Century
	Looking Beyond the Body—The Future of Studies of Queen Anne
11 “The Crown Can Never Have Too Many Liveings:” Queen Anne’s Patronage of the Clergy, 1702–1714
	Introduction
	Anne and Ecclesiastical Crown Patronage
	Anne and Her Ecclesiastical Advisers
	Priorities in Anne’s Ecclesiastical Appointments
	Conclusion
12 “La Terrible Catastrofe”: Political Reactions to the Estrangement of Maria Clementina Sobieska and James III, 1725–1727
	A Wife for the “Pretender”
	Clementina in Rome
	The European Reaction
	The Spanish Intervention
	Reunion
	Conclusion
13 “A Crown of Everlasting Glory”: The Afterlife of Maria Clementina Sobieska in Material and Visual Culture
	Funeral
	Monumental Legacy
	Distributing the Queen
	Conclusion
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