Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince

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Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince

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 â€œweak and feeble womanâ€™s bodyâ€ to do so for political gain. But inÂ 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, Hiltonâ€™s fresh interpretation is of a queen who saw herself primarily as a Renaissance prince and used Machiavellian statecraft to secure that position.Â
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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 Elizabethâ€™s emotional and sexual life. Â Itâ€™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 Englandâ€™s first recognizably modern head of state.

Country	USA
Author	Lisa Hilton
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780544577848
ISBN	0544577841
Label	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Manufacturer	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	400
PublicationDate	2015-11-10
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ReleaseDate	2015-11-10
Studio	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince

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