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Author: Castor, Helen
ISBN: 9780141980881

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Part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers in a collectible format

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.

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Title Elizabeth I (Penguin Monarchs): A Study in Insecurity
Author Helen Castor
Binding Hardback
Pages 128
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Penguin Monarchs
Publication date 2017
Illustrated Yes
ISBN 9780141980881 / 0141980885
Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
Dimensions 7.34 x 4.98 x 0.59 in (18.64 x 12.65 x 1.50 cm)
Category Biography / Autobiography
Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - Kings and rulers, Elizabeth
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2017473727
Dewey Decimal Code 942.055

About the author

Helen Castor is a medieval historian and a Bye-Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Her first book, Blood & Roses, a biography of the fifteenth-century Paston family, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2005 and won the English Association's Beatrice White Prize in 2006. Her second book, She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth, was made into a BBC2 TV series, and selected as one of the books of the year for 2010 in the Guardian, Times, Sunday Times, Independent, Financial Times and BBC History Magazine. Her most recent book, Joan of Arc, was dubbed 'a triumph of history' (Guardian).

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