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While the previous chapters have all examined manuscript and printed book dedications to Mary and some of her royal female predecessors, this chapter will turn to dedications directed to King Philip. Mary and Philip were married on July 25, 1554 at Winchester Cathedral. The couple was related by blood, with Mary’s mother, Katherine of Aragon, being the sister of Philip’s grandmother, Joanna of Castille. Mary chose to marry Philip, because, like her father, she understood the importance of having legitimate children and securing the throne. Moreover, Philip and his father, Charles V, presided over Catholic territories and could be of great assistance to Mary in her initiative to return England to the Catholic Church.
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Peter Martyr of Angleria, The decades of the newe worlde or west India conteynyng the nauigations and conquests of the Spanyardes, with the particular description of the moste ryche and large lands and Hands lately founde in the west ocean perteynyng to the inheritaunce of the kinges of Spayne, trans. Richard Eden (London: William Powell, 1555). STC 645.
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John Ponet, An Apologie Fully Aunsvveringe by Scriptures and Aunceant Doctors, a Blasphemose Book Gatherid by D. Steph. Gardiner, Nou Lord Chauncelar and D. Smyth of Oxford, and other Papists, as by Ther Books Appeare, and of Late Set Furth Vnder the Name of Thomas Martin Doctor of the Ciuile Lawes as of Himself he Saieth, Against the Godly Mariadge of Priests (Zurich: Christoph Froschaue, 1555).
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Knighton has identified this book as Beso las manos et point dictionis gallicae usus. Cum carmine de leone et asino (London: Thomas Marsh, 1557),
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Schutte, V. (2015). Dedications to Philip and Mary. In: Mary I and the Art of Book Dedications. Queenship and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137541284_6
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