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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 and England’s enemies scattered; English explorers reached almost to the ends of the earth; a new Church of England rose from the ashes of past conflict, and the English Renaissance bloomed in the genius of Shakespeare, Spenser and Sidney. But the image is also armour. In this illuminating 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.
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Publish Date: 04/07/2019‘The experience of insecurity, it turned out, would shape one of the most remarkable monarchs in England’s history’
In the popular imagination, as in her portraits, Elizabeth I is the image of monarchical power. But this image is as much armour as a reflection of the truth. In this illuminating account of England’s iconic queen, Helen Castor reveals her reign as shaped by a profound and enduring insecurity that was a matter of both practical politics and personal psychology.
| Weight | 88 g |
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| Dimensions | 180 × 130 × 8 mm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 113 , 8 unnumbered of plates |
| Language | English |
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| Dewey | 942.055092 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
