Mary Queen Of Scots The First Biography

Author : Ronald Santangeli
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004529410

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Mary Queen of Scots: The First Biography by Ronald Santangeli Pdf

In Mary Queen of Scots: The First Biography, Ronald Santangeli has recovered a long-forgotten document of great historiographical, literary and cultural importance. Written in 1624 in Neo-Latin by George Con, a young expatriate Scot in Rome, the Vita Mariae Stuartae is worthy of study, both for its content and its literary dimension. The fully recensed Latin text is presented with a meticulous translation into English and a fully-annotated commentary. The image Con creates of the Scottish Queen has prevailed in European cultural representations from poetry and drama to novels, paintings and opera, while Con's own meteoric career highlights the impact on seventeenth-century Catholic Europe by members of the Scottish diaspora. A significant addition to Marian and Scottish Neo-Latin studies.

Author : Mary (Queen of Scots)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Queens
ISBN : PSU:000006094010

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Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots by Mary (Queen of Scots) Pdf

Author : Mary (Queen of Scots),Agnes Strickland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044050797539

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Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots by Mary (Queen of Scots),Agnes Strickland Pdf

Author : Mary (Queen of Scots)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017306834

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Life of Mary, Queen of Scots. [By James Grant.] by Mary (Queen of Scots) Pdf

Author : Antonia Fraser
Publisher : Harvill Press
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0586033793

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Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser Pdf

Author : Adam Blackwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015063964806

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History of Mary Queen of Scots by Adam Blackwood Pdf

Author : John Guy
Publisher : HMH
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547526966

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Queen of Scots by John Guy Pdf

This Whitbread Award–winning biography and basis for the film Mary Queen of Scots starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie “reads like Shakespearean drama” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution). “A triumph . . . A masterpiece full of fire and tragedy.” —Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana In the first full-scale biography of Mary Stuart in more than thirty years, John Guy creates an intimate and absorbing portrait of one of history’s greatest women, depicting her world and her place in the sweep of history with stunning immediacy. Bringing together all surviving documents and uncovering a trove of new sources for the first time, Guy dispels the popular image of Mary Queen of Scots as a romantic leading lady—achieving her ends through feminine wiles—and establishes her as the intellectual and political equal of Elizabeth I. Through Guy’s pioneering research and superbly readable prose, we come to see Mary as a skillful diplomat, maneuvering ingeniously among a dizzying array of factions that sought to control or dethrone her. Queen of Scots is an enthralling, myth-shattering look at a complex woman and ruler and her time. “The definitive biography . . . Gripping . . . A pure pleasure to read.” —The Washington Post Book World “Reads like Shakespearean drama, with all the delicious plotting and fresh writing to go with it.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Author : Mary (Queen of Scots),Agnes Strickland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MSU:31293025599824

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Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots by Mary (Queen of Scots),Agnes Strickland Pdf

Author : C. A. Campbell
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547064862

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Mary Queen of Scots in History by C. A. Campbell Pdf

Mary Queen of Scots in History is a historical biography by C.A. Campbell. Mary Stuart was Queen of Scotland from 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567. She was only six days old when her father died, and she acceded to the throne.

Author : Jacob Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1387894625

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Mary Queen of Scots by Jacob Abbott Pdf

Jacob Abbott's account of Mary Queen of Scots life and untimely death is complete with original illustrations of Mary herself and her various residences. Abbott's history is both embracing and superb as an introduction to one of the most divisive and controversial figures of the Tudor era. Mary had a complex role in the politics of the day, and had potential as a rival to the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The book begins by examining Mary's childhood years, and her French education. The agreement - The Treaty of Greenwich - which would pair the young Mary to Edward, the son of Henry VIII, is detailed, as are hopes that the union would cement relations between the English and the Scots. Clever, capable and charming, Mary Queen of Scots was initially seen as a promising monarch. However the rules of accession of the time made her very existence problematic for Queen Elizabeth I. This problem would underline the remainder of Mary's life, her nature as a potential threat made eternal by her very blood.

Author : John Guy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241963777

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My Heart is My Own by John Guy Pdf

Now a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period. For centuries, Mary, Queen of Scots has been a figure of scholarly debate. Where many have portrayed her as the weak woman to Elizabeth's rational leader, John Guy reassesses the young queen, finding her far more politically shrewd than previously believed. Crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months old, Queen of France by age sixteen and widowed the following year, Guy paints Mary as a commanding and savvy queen who navigated the European power struggles of the time to her advantage. Her life was one of drama and conflict - Scottish lords constructed labyrinthine plots to wrest power from her and attempts to prove her claim to the English throne were thwarted by English ministers bent on protecting Elizabeth. My Heart is My Own re-examines the original sources, resulting in a riveting new argument surrounding Mary's involvement in her husband Lord Darnely's murder and her subsequent marriage to his suspected assassin. Guy's accessible treatment of the well-trodden story, his deft storytelling and insightful new arguments provide compelling and dramatic reading. 'An absorbing biography . . . meticulously researched . . . scholarly and intriguing' Peter Ackroyd, The Times 'Rarely have first-class scholarship and first-class storytelling been so effectively combined' John Adamson, Daily Telegraph John Guy is an award-winning historian, accomplished broadcaster and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. His previous books include the highly acclaimed dual biography A Daughter's Love: Thomas and Margaret More a history, Tudor England, which has sold over 250,000 copies worldwide and a biography of Thomas Becket, published in 2012.

Author : Jacob Abbott
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1500866903

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Mary Queen of Scots by Jacob Abbott Pdf

Travelers who go into Scotland take a great interest in visiting, among other places, a certain room in the ruins of an old palace, where Queen Mary was born. Queen Mary was very beautiful, but she was very unfortunate and unhappy. Every body takes a strong interest in her story, and this interest attaches, in some degree, to the room where her sad and sorrowful life was begun.

Author : Linda Porter
Publisher : Piatkus
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780748122325

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Mary Tudor by Linda Porter Pdf

A striking and sympathetic portrait of England's first Queen, Mary I - whose character has been vilified for over 400 years. Instead of the bloodthirsty bigot of Protestant mythology, Mary Tudor emerges from the pages of this deeply-researched biography as a cultured renaissance princess, a courageous survivor of the violent power struggles that characterised the reigns of her father, Henry VIII, and brother Edward VI. The author does not belittle Mary's burning of heretics, which earned her the subriquet 'Bloody Mary', but she also had many endearing personal qualities and talents, not least the courage of leadership she showed in facing down Northumberland's rebellion. A well-balanced and readable biography of Mary I is long overdue.

Author : Jane Dunn
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307425744

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Elizabeth and Mary by Jane Dunn Pdf

"Superb.... A perceptive, suspenseful account." --The New York Times Book Review "Dunn demythologizes Elizabeth and Mary. In humanizing their dynamic and shifting relationship, Dunn describes it as fueled by both rivalry and their natural solidarity as women in an overwhelmingly masculine world." --Boston Herald The political and religious conflicts between Queen Elizabeth I and the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots, have for centuries captured our imagination and inspired memorable dramas played out on stage, screen, and in opera. But few books have brought to life more vividly the exquisite texture of two women’s rivalry, spurred on by the ambitions and machinations of the forceful men who surrounded them. The drama has terrific resonance even now as women continue to struggle in their bid for executive power. Against the backdrop of sixteenth-century England, Scotland, and France, Dunn paints portraits of a pair of protagonists whose formidable strengths were placed in relentless opposition. Protestant Elizabeth, the bastard daughter of Anne Boleyn, whose legitimacy had to be vouchsafed by legal means, glowed with executive ability and a visionary energy as bright as her red hair. Mary, the Catholic successor whom England’s rivals wished to see on the throne, was charming, feminine, and deeply persuasive. That two such women, queens in their own right, should have been contemporaries and neighbours sets in motion a joint biography of rare spark and page-turning power.

Author : Jacob Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Scotland
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117386719

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History of Mary, Queen of Scots by Jacob Abbott Pdf