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Amy Robsart: A Life and Its End

Amy Robsart: A Life and Its End

Paperback

Historical FiguresMedieval & Renaissance History

ISBN10: 1548783609
ISBN13: 9781548783600
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Sep 4 2017
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Amy Robsart, the wife of Queen Elizabeth's favourite Robert Dudley, was found dead at the foot of some stairs at Cumnor, Oxfordshire, on 8 September 1560. Did she fall and break her neck, as the coroner's jury concluded? Was she ill? Did she jump? Was she pushed? Was she murdered, as many people suspected - at the time and since - and who were the killers? This vivid biography recounts her life and death in the shadow of the Tudor court, using all available documents, some for the first time. There will also for the first time be an in-depth look at the people around her, like her half-brothers, her host, or her supposed killer. The possible causes of her death, accident, suicide, murder, even illness, are discussed in context of the surviving evidence, modern statistics, and Renaissance culture. While there will never be a definite answer to the mystery of Amy's death, her life can be rescued from the myths that have grown around her over the centuries.

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