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Elizabeth I : Renaissance prince : a biography / Lisa Hilton.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) DA355 .H55 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hilton, Lisa, 1974- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.
- Elizabeth.
- Great Britain--History--Elizabeth, 1558-1603--Biography.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Biography.
- Kings and rulers.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 370 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014.
- Summary:
- '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. It is a book that challenges readers to reassess Elizabeth's reign and the colorful drama, scandal and intrigue to which it is always linked. Using new research from sources in France and Italy, Lisa Hilton to presents a fresh interpretation of Elizabeth as a queen who saw herself primarily as a Renaissance prince. She delivers a new perspective on the most intimate details of Elizabeth's life, and upon her attempts to fashion England into a Renaissance state. Elizabeth was not an exceptional woman but an exceptional ruler, and Hilton redraws English history with this animated portrait of an astounding life. Her biography maps the dramatic journey that Elizabeth took from being a timid and meek newly-crowned queen, to one of the most powerful and vivid monarchs ever to rule England.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-351) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780297871309
- 0297871307
- 0297865226
- 9780297865223
- OCLC:
- 894611211
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