Archives de Tag: Mary of Guise
Portraits of James V of Scotland and the celebration of dynasty
« There is evidence to suggest that the Stewart kings were keenly aware of the need both to circulate an official likeness and to assemble a gallery of dynastic forebears. Portrait artists were seemingly employed at the Scottish court from the reign of James I. When Mary Queen of Scots was executed at Fotheringhay Castle in […]
« Your Grace. » – « Please call me Mary »
For all French readers, la critique sanglante en français est déja faite ici , et c’est très drôle ! Mary Stuart, Mary of Guise’s only daughter, is still very popular today – and a figure so far from her historic self that comparison isn’t reasonable. But let’s try to get some of this stuff right. […]
« The First Blast of the Trumpet » : John Knox by Marie Macpherson
Scottish writer Marie Macpherson published in march this year the first volume of a trilogy about John Knox (1513-1572), the protestant reformer who saw – as it is commonly written – queen Mary of Guise as an example of « the monstrous regiment of women« . In fact, John Knox’s « First Blast of the trumpet » was principally […]
Marie de Lorraine, la mère oubliée de Marie Stuart
Le 20 novembre 1515 naissait à Bar-le-Duc Marie, le premier enfant de Claude de Lorraine, comte d’Aumale, et de son épouse Antoinette. À l’occasion des 500 ans de sa naissance en 2015, le CIRLEP de l’Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne et le CRULH de l’Université de Lorraine organisaient en octobre un colloque à Bar-le-Duc qui lui […]