Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince - Couverture rigide

Hilton, Lisa

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0544577841 ISBN 13 : 9780544577848

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015

Synopsis

A new portrait that casts the queen as she saw herself: not as an exceptional woman, but as an exceptional ruler

Queen Elizabeth I was all too happy to play on courtly conventions of gender when it suited her “weak and feeble woman’s body” to do so for political gain. But in Elizabeth, historian Lisa Hilton offers ample evidence why those famous words should not be taken at face value. With new research out of France, Italy, Russia, and Turkey, Hilton’s fresh interpretation is of a queen who saw herself primarily as a Renaissance prince and used Machiavellian statecraft to secure that position. 

 

A decade since the last major biography, this Elizabeth breaks new ground and depicts a queen who was much less constrained by her femininity than most treatments claim. For readers of David Starkey and Alison Weir, it will provide a new, complex perspective on Elizabeth’s emotional and sexual life.  It’s a fascinating journey that shows how a marginalized newly crowned queen, whose European contemporaries considered her to be the illegitimate ruler of a pariah nation, ultimately adapted to become England’s first recognizably modern head of state.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

LISA HILTON is the acclaimed author of The Real Queen of France: Ath'nais and Louis XIV, Mistress Peachum's Pleasure, Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens, and The Horror of Love. She is the author of three novels, the best-selling Wolves in Winter; The House with Blue Shutters, which was short-listed in the UK for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and The Stolen Queen. She was educated at Oxford University and lives in central London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0544577841
• ISBN 13: 9780544577848
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400
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