Titlebook: Unexpected Heirs in Early Modern Europe; Potential Kings and Valerie Schutte Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 201

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Book 2017is the first book dedicated solely to evaluating their lives and the repercussions of their reigns. By comparing a variety of such unexpected heirs, this engaging history offers a richer portrait of early modern monarchy. It shows that the need for heirs and the acquisition and preparation of heirs

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A Bastard and a Changeling? England’s Edward of Westminster and Delayed Childbirth even a random boy the queen was attempting to pass off as a prince. Despite Margaret’s best efforts, Edward was disinherited and lived with her in exile on the continent. There he was educated as befit a prince, schooled in law, politics, and war until his untimely death in battle at age seventeen.

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Fit for a King? The Gendered Emotional Performances of Catherine de Medici as , of France, 1536–1547onstrate how Catherine employed gendered affective display and emotional rhetoric to situate herself as a viable . and potential queen consort for Henry, at a period in which her position at court and within the Valois dynasty was fundamentally at stake.

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Never the Queen: Anne Stuart’s Formative Years a queen regnant. This chapter examines how the decisions made regarding Anne’s upbringing were designed to alleviate the governing class’s concern about her father and uncle potentially practicing Catholicism as monarchs.

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Another Spare to the French Crown: Henry III of France’s Self-Representation, Reputation, and Royal nry’s speeches, this chapter bridges an important gap in the existent historiography and demonstrates that the last “spare” to the French crown was not necessarily the failure he was portrayed as being.

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