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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Blackstone Audio Inc
Publication date November 10, 2015
Binding CD/Spoken Word
Edition Mp3 una
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781504673136
ISBN-10 1504673131
Dimensions 0.50 by 5.50 by 7.50 in.
Weight 0.20 lbs.
Original list price $29.95
Other format details audio
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: [Read by Kelly Birch]

A new biographical 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 ''weak and feeble woman's body'' to do so for political gain. But in Elizabeth, historian Lisa Hilton offers ample evidence of 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 and used Machiavellian statecraft to secure that position.

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 Elizabeth's emotional and sexual life. 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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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780544577848
 
from Houghton Mifflin (November 10, 2015)
9780544577848 | details & prices | 384 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $27.00
Paperback
Book cover for 9780297871309 Book cover for 9780544811911
 
from Mariner Books (November 8, 2016)
9780544811911 | details & prices | 416 pages | List price $16.95
from Gardners Books (November 13, 2014)
9780297871309 | details & prices | 384 pages | List price $23.65
About: 'We are a prince from a line of princes' Lisa Hilton's majestic biography of 'The Virgin Queen', Elizabeth I, provides vibrant new insights on the monarch's compelling, enthralling life story.
CD/Spoken Word
Book cover for 9781504673136
 
With Kelly Birch (other contributor) | Unabridged edition from Blackstone Audio Inc (November 10, 2015)
9781504673143 | details & prices | 5.75 × 6.00 × 1.50 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $34.95
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Mp3 una edition from Blackstone Audio Inc (November 10, 2015)
9781504673136 | details & prices | 5.50 × 7.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.20 lbs | List price $29.95
About: [Read by Kelly Birch] A new biographical portrait that casts the queen as she saw herself -- not as an exceptional woman, but as an exceptional ruler.

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