Tudors Versus Stewarts: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary, Queen of Scots - Tapa blanda

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Porter, Linda

 
9781250067463: Tudors Versus Stewarts: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary, Queen of Scots
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ISBN 10: 1250067464 ISBN 13: 9781250067463
Editorial: GRIFFIN, 2015

Sinopsis

<p>The war between the fertile Stewarts and the barren Tudors was crucial to the history of the British Isles in the sixteenth century. The legendary struggle, most famously embodied by the relationship between Elizabeth I and her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots, was fuelled by three generations of powerful Tudor and Stewart monarchs. It was the marriage of Margaret Tudor, elder sister of Henry VIII, to James IV of Scotland in 1503 that gave the Tudors a claim to the English throne—a claim which became the acknowledged ambition of Mary Queen of Scots and a major factor in her downfall.<br><br>Here is the story of divided families, of flamboyant kings and queens, cultured courts and tribal hatreds, blood feuds, rape and sexual license, of battles and violent deaths. It brings alive a neglected aspect of British history—the blood-spattered steps of two small countries on the northern fringes of Europe towards the union of their crowns. Beginning with the dramatic victories of two usurpers, Henry VII in England and James IV in Scotland, in the late fifteenth century, Linda Porter's <i>Tudors Versus Stewarts</i> sheds new light on Henry VIII, his daughter Elizabeth I and on his great-niece, Mary Queen of Scots, still seductive more than 400 years after her death.</p>

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<p>Linda Porter has a Ph.D. in history from the University of York, England. She was the winner of the 2004 Biographers Club/Daily Mail prize in England and is the author of <i>The Myth of "Bloody Mary"</i>, also available from St. Martin's Press. She is married with one daughter and lives near London.</p>

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Editorial
GRIFFIN
Año de publicación
2015
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1250067464
ISBN 13 
9781250067463
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
544
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ISBN 10:  0330534378 ISBN 13:  9780330534376
Editorial: CE/OP, 2013
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