Chapter 3. Jane Grey in Context
Published Online: 17 DEC 2009
DOI: 10.1002/9781444307832.ch3
Copyright © 2009 Eric Ives
Book Title
Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery
Additional Information
How to Cite
Ives, E. (2009) Jane Grey in Context, in Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444307832.ch3
Publication History
- Published Online: 17 DEC 2009
- Published Print: 18 SEP 2009
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781405194136
Online ISBN: 9781444307832
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- Jane Grey in context;
- 1553 succession crisis in England - the talk of Europe;
- A. F. Pollard, father of modern Tudor history describing Jane - ‘an almost perfect type of youthful womanhood’;
- what we know has come down to us - through fierce prism of religious controversy;
- Jane, victim of posterity - on death becoming a martyr for Protestant faith;
- Jane Grey's political importance lying in her royal potential;
- evidence of earliest marriage plans for Jane, papers of the Cecil family at Hatfield;
- third diplomatic presence in mid-century England - the city state of Venice;
- biography of Jane - written by Michelangelo Florio;
- 1553 crisis, historical accounts published in the course of Elizabeth's reign