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Item specifics
- Condition
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- “The books are in very good used condition. Please read the full description below.”
- ISBN
- 9781860645884
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
I. B. Tauris & Company, The Limited
ISBN-10
1860645887
ISBN-13
9781860645884
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1726669
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mary, Queen of Scots : Pride, Passion and a Kingdom Lost
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Royalty, Europe / Great Britain / Scotland, Europe / France, Historical
Publication Year
2001
Features
Revised
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Book Series
Tauris Parke Paperbacks Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
7.4 Oz
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-272110
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
941.105/092 B
Edition Description
Revised edition
Table Of Content
Legend or History? * The Queen's Inheritance * The Minority: Mary's First Wooing * The Minority: The Auld Alliance Rampant * The Reluctant Ruler * Of Marriages and Murders * The Queen without a Realm
Synopsis
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, was one of history's romantically tragic figures. Devious, naïve, often highly principled, beautiful, and sexually voracious, this was a woman who secured the Scottish throne and bolstered the position of the Catholic Church in Scotland. Her endless plotting, including a likely involvement in the murder of her husband Lord Darnley, eventually led to her flight from Scotland and imprisonment by her equally ambitions cousin and fellow queen, Elizabeth of England. And yet when Elizabeth ordered her unpredictable rival and kinswoman to be beheaded in 1587 she did so in resigned frustration rather than as act of political wrath.Was the beheading of a cousin truly necessary? Did Mary, though churlish, petulant, and often disloyal, really deserve to forfeit the compassion of her cousin, a woman who from childhood had been her friend and playmate? Mary's fate was to be born to supreme power, but she was totally lacking in the political abilityto deal with its responsibilities. This was the tragedy that turned her life into a study in failure. The extraordinary story of Mary, which has inspired the great poets, playwrights, and operatic composers of the 19th and 20th centuries, is one of the most colorful and emotionally searing tales of western history, and is here told by a leading specialist of the 16th century., Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, was one of history's romantically tragic figures. Devious, na ve, often highly principled, beautiful, and sexually voracious, this was a woman who secured the Scottish throne and bolstered the position of the Catholic Church in Scotland. Her endless plotting, including a likely involvement in the murder of her husband Lord Darnley, eventually led to her flight from Scotland and imprisonment by her equally ambitions cousin and fellow queen, Elizabeth of England. And yet when Elizabeth ordered her unpredictable rival and kinswoman to be beheaded in 1587 she did so in resigned frustration rather than as act of political wrath.Was the beheading of a cousin truly necessary? Did Mary, though churlish, petulant, and often disloyal, really deserve to forfeit the compassion of her cousin, a woman who from childhood had been her friend and playmate? Mary's fate was to be born to supreme power, but she was totally lacking in the political ability to deal with its responsibilities. This was the tragedy that turned her life into a study in failure. The extraordinary story of Mary, which has inspired the great poets, playwrights, and operatic composers of the 19th and 20th centuries, is one of the most colorful and emotionally searing tales of western history, and is here told by a leading specialist of the 16th century.
LC Classification Number
DA787.A1W76 2001
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