Tudors Versus Stewarts: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary, Queen of Scots - Brossura

Porter, Linda

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ISBN 10: 1250067464 ISBN 13: 9781250067463

Casa editrice: Griffin, 2015

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Evaluates the rivalry between the fertile Stewarts and barren Tudors as critical to the British Isles of the 16th-century, tracing three generations of feuding that led to the violent competition for the throne between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. By the award-winning author of Katherine the Queen. 20,000 first printing.

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The war between the fertile Stewarts and the barren Tudors was crucial to the history of the British Isles in the sixteenth century. The legendary struggle, most famously embodied by the relationship between Elizabeth I and her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots, was fuelled by three generations of powerful Tudor and Stewart monarchs. It was the marriage of Margaret Tudor, elder sister of Henry VIII, to James IV of Scotland in 1503 that gave the Tudors a claim to the English throne--a claim which became the acknowledged ambition of Mary Queen of Scots and a major factor in her downfall. Here is the story of divided families, of flamboyant kings and queens, cultured courts and tribal hatreds, blood feuds, rape and sexual license, of battles and violent deaths. It brings alive a neglected aspect of British history--the blood-spattered steps of two small countries on the northern fringes of Europe towards the union of their crowns. Beginning with the dramatic victories of two usurpers, Henry VII in England and James IV in Scotland, in the late fifteenth century, Linda Porter's "Tudors Versus Stewarts" sheds new light on Henry VIII, his daughter Elizabeth I and on his great-niece, Mary Queen of Scots, still seductive more than 400 years after her death.

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• Editore: Griffin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1250067464
• ISBN 13: 9781250067463
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 523