Born to Rule Lecture 2 Mary of Modena: A Royal Scandal
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This summer, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, is due to give birth to an heir to the throne. This is the second in a pair of lectures in which leading historians examine how Tudor and Stuart monarchs begat children. Mary Fissell, from Johns Hopkins University and visiting researcher on the Generation to Reproduction project at Cambridge University, presents the second lecture in this series Born to Rule: Public Lectures on Royal Births in Tudor and Stuart England.
Mary of Modena: A Royal Scandal. The first royal birth to become a media circus was that of James Stuart in 1688, the so-called “warming-pan baby”. In this lecture, we’ll look at the newspaper stories, medals, maps, songs, and pamphlets that told conflicting and sensational tales about the child born to James II and his second wife, Mary of Modena. Exceptional though this birth was, it also tells us about the moments in more ordinary women’s lives when they too gave birth. |
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| Created: | 2013-06-26 10:46 | ||
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Generation to Reproduction project
Born to Rule: Royal Births in Tudor and Stuart England |
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| Publisher: | University of Cambridge | ||
| Copyright: | Mary Fissell | ||
| Language: | eng (English) | ||
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| Keywords: | Mary of Modena; Royal birth; Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge; History of childbirth; | ||
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iTunes - History - European History |
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| Explicit content: | No | ||
| Abstract: | This summer, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, is due to give birth to an heir to the throne. This is the second in a pair of lectures in which leading historians examine how Tudor and Stuart monarchs begat children. The first royal birth to become a media circus was that of James Stuart in 1688, the so-called “warming-pan baby”. In this lecture, we’ll look at the newspaper stories, medals, maps, songs, and pamphlets that told conflicting and sensational tales about the child born to James II and his second wife, Mary of Modena. Exceptional though this birth was, it also tells us about the moments in more ordinary women’s lives when they too gave birth. |
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