Elizabeth I
a study in insecurity
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Word Count
28,500 words, Guess
Page Count
114 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100141980885
- ISBN-139780141980881
- Library of Congress Control Number2017473727
- OCLC Control Number990562912
- Better World Books9780141980881
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL26961715M
Classifications
- DDC942.05/5092
- LCCDA355 .C37 2018
- LCCDA355
Description
In the popular imagination, as in her portraits, Elizabeth I is the image of monarchical power. The Virgin Queen ruled over a Golden Age: the Spanish Armada was defeated; English explorers reached the ends of the earth; a new Church of England rose from the ashes of past conflict; the English Renaissance bloomed in the genius of Shakespeare, Spenser and Sidney. But the image is also armour. In this illuminating new account of Elizabeth's reign, Helen Castor shows how England's iconic queen was shaped by profound and enduring insecurity-an insecurity which was both a matter of practical political reality and personal psychology. From her precarious upbringing at the whim of a brutal, capricious father and her perilous accession after his death, to the religious division that marred her state and the failure to marry that threatened her line, Elizabeth lived under constant threat. But, facing down her enemies with a compellingly inscrutable public persona, the last and greatest of the Tudor monarchs would become a timeless, fearless queen.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Penguin monarchs. The House of Tudor
- Penguin monarchs
Other Editions
- Elizabeth I
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