Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince

by Lisa Hilton

Book Overview

A new portrait that casts the queen as she saw herself: not as an exceptional woman, but as an exceptional ruler Queen Elizabeth I was all too happy to play on courtly conventions of gender when it suited her "weak and feeble woman's body" to do so for political gain. But in Elizabeth , historian Lisa Hilton offers ample evidence why those famous words should not be taken at face value. With new research out of France, Italy, Russia, and Turkey, Hilton's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0544577841
• ISBN13: 9780544577848
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"