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Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince

Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince

Hilton, Lisa

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Biographies GeneralHistorical Figures

ISBN10: 0544811917
ISBN13: 9780544811911
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: Nov 8 2016
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.55
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.80
Language: English

Game-changing . . . How history should be written. -- Andrew Roberts, author of Napoleon: A Life

[An] ambitious re-examination of the intersection of gender and monarchy. -- New York Times Book Review

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--an expert in Machiavellian statecraft.

Elizabeth depicts a queen who was much less constrained by her femininity than most accounts claim, challenging readers to reassess Elizabeth's reign and the colorful drama and intrigue to which it is always linked. 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.

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