Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince - Brossura

Hilton, Lisa

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ISBN 10: 0544811917 ISBN 13: 9780544811911

Casa editrice: Mariner Books, 2016

Riassunto

“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.
 
“Hilton transforms an irreverent, centuries-old vision of a ‘bewigged farthingale with a mysterious sex life’ into a resolute, steel-spined survivor who far surpassed Henry VII’s wildest hopes for his new dynasty.” — Publishers Weekly

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“Game-changing . . . how history should be written.”—Andrew Roberts, author of Napoleon: A Life   “The cleverest book on Elizabeth I have ever read.”—Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette and The Wives of Henry the VIII   “It is refreshing to be confronted by challenging arguments instead of tired anecdotes. This biography is also full of unusual and interesting insights . . . what I am left with above all are haunting images of a scented room and a face dusted with alabaster—the living cameo of a most exceptional prince.”—Leanda de Lisle, author of The Sisters Who Would be Queen, for The Spectator   “Hilton provides us with an accomplished evocation of a remarkable ruler. Her book is as elegantly fashioned and ingeniously contrived as those pieces of Renaissance jewelry that Elizabeth loved to wear.”—Anne Somerset, author of Queen Anne, for TheMail On Sunday    

Praise for Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince: “Readers should pay attention to this thoughtful, often ingenious account...mildly revisionist, well-argued, and thoroughly satisfying.”—Kirkus, starred “In this focused, well-researched biography, Hilton transforms an irreverent, centuries-old vision of a “bewigged farthingale with a mysterious sex life” into a resolute, steel-spined survivor who far surpassed Henry VII’s wildest hopes for his new dynasty.”—Publishers Weekly “Game-changing . . . how history should be written.”—Andrew Roberts, author of Napoleon: A Life   “The cleverest book on Elizabeth I have ever read.”—Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette and The Wives of Henry the VIII   “It is refreshing to be confronted by challenging arguments instead of tired anecdotes. This biography is also full of unusual and interesting insights . . . what I am left with above all are haunting images of a scented room and a face dusted with alabaster—the living cameo of a most exceptional prince.”—Leanda de Lisle, author of The Sisters Who Would be Queen, for The Spectator   “Hilton provides us with an accomplished evocation of a remarkable ruler. Her book is as elegantly fashioned and ingeniously contrived as those pieces of Renaissance jewelry that Elizabeth loved to wear.”—Anne Somerset, author of Queen Anne, for TheMail On Sunday  

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[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.
 
“Hilton transforms an irreverent, centuries-old vision of a ‘bewigged farthingale with a mysterious sex life’ into a resolute, steel-spined survivor who far surpassed Henry VII’s wildest hopes for his new dynasty.” — Publishers Weekly

Lisa Hilton is the acclaimed author of Athénaïs, Mistress Peachum’s Pleasure, Queens Consort, and The Horror of Love. She is also 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.
 

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• Editore: Mariner Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0544811917
• ISBN 13: 9780544811911
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384