Interview with Valerie Schutte: Royal Studies Journal Cluster

This episode, we are joined by Dr Valerie Schutte for a conversation about her forthcoming Royal Studies Journal Cluster, due for publication next month.

Valerie Schutte has published widely on royal Tudor women, book dedications, and queenship. She has published two monographs: Mary I and the Art of Book Dedications: Royal Women, Power, and Persuasion (2015) and Princesses Mary and Elizabeth Tudor and the Gift Book Exchange (2021). She has also edited or co-edited seven volumes on Mary I, Shakespeare, and queenship. Her most recent edited collection - Mid-Tudor Queenship and Memory: The Making and Remaking of Lady Jane Grey and Mary I - was published in Palgrave Macmillan's Queenship and Power series in September 2023. Other recent publications include: "Defending the Faith: Johann Slotan and Queen Mary I" in the Journal of the Early Book Society and "Anne of Cleves: Bound for England" in Royal Journeys in Early Modern Europe: Progresses, Palaces and Panache, edited by Anthony Musson and J.P.D. Cooper. Valerie is currently editing two other volumes, one on Tudor monarchs and myths, and the other on Mary I and humanism. She is also writing a cultural biography of Anne of Cleves. Valerie also has a forthcoming essay on 500 years of reprints of Juan Luis Vives's Instruction of a Christian Woman, that will be published this winter in the Journal of the Early Book Society.

For more on Dr Schutte's research, follow her on Instagram and at her website.

The Winter 2023 RSJ Cluster (in issue 10.2 to be released in December 2023) contains the following articles:

• The Sexualization Of a “Noble and Vertuous Quene”: Elizabeth of York, 1466-1503: William B. Robison 
• Questioning an Honest Queen: The Scrutiny Around Queen Catherine of Aragon's Virginity: Emma Luisa Cahill Marrón 
• “This Dolorous Chance”: Contemporary Views on Catherine of Aragon’s Pregnancy Losses: Caroline Armbruster 
• Visualising Sexuality and Maternity in the Royal Entries of Mary Tudor (1514) and Anne Boleyn (1533): Charlotte Samways 
• Sexuality and Grace, Grazia: What made Anne Boleyn so special?: Tracy Adams 
• Bodies in Competition: Italian Descriptions of Sexuality, Fertility, and Beauty in the King’s Great Matter: Samantha Perez
• Diplomatic Presentations of Queen Mary I’s 1555 Pregnancy: Ailish Girling & Valerie Schutte