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Specifiche dell'oggetto
- Condizione
- Type
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780345453204
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0345453204
ISBN-13
9780345453204
eBay Product ID (ePID)
54363042
Product Key Features
Book Title
Queen Isabella : Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
Number of Pages
528 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Europe / Great Britain / Norman Conquest to Late Medieval (1066-1485), Royalty, Political, Historical
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
15 oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Additional Product Features
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Reviews
"Gripping . . . a highly readable tour de force that brings Queen Isabella vividly to life."- The Washington Post Book World "Insightful and compelling . . . [offers] surprise after surprise about the sensual, rather avaricious but eminently admirable Isabella."- USA Today "[Isabella's] story has a distinctly modern appeal. . . . Full of violent men with short tempers, conniving politicians and wildly domineering parents, it's a period-piece melodrama that doubles as a timeless morality play."- The New York Times Book Review "Fascinating . . . a work of extraordinary historical reporting that is rich, alive, and truly exciting."- Tucson Citizen, "Gripping . . . a highly readable tour de force that brings Queen Isabella vividly to life." -- The Washington Post Book World "Insightful and compelling . . . [offers] surprise after surprise about the sensual, rather avaricious but eminently admirable Isabella." -- USA Today "[Isabella's] story has a distinctly modern appeal. . . . Full of violent men with short tempers, conniving politicians and wildly domineering parents, it's a period-piece melodrama that doubles as a timeless morality play." -- The New York Times Book Review "Fascinating . . . a work of extraordinary historical reporting that is rich, alive, and truly exciting." -- Tucson Citizen "It's her ability to capture the personalities of her aristocratic subjects--and to deliciously catalogue their clothes, food and entertainments--that have made Weir such a popular historian." -- Newsday "This meticulous no-nonsense biography presents a fascinating story complete with puzzles." -- The Independent (U.K.) "Weir's book offers incredibly in-depth details of and insights into royal life in the fourteenth century." -- Richmond Times-Dispatch "A sympathetic account of Isabella." -- The Times Literary Supplement "[Weir] explains the past in terms that we understand and use today." -- The Tablet "[An] enthralling biography . . . It provides a beautifully nuanced portrait of a fascinating lady and gives a vivid sense of the riotous realpolitik of medieval times." -- The Scotsman "Weir weaves so much closely researched detail into a highly readable and fascinating tale. . . . She really brings history to life." -- Lincolnshire Echo "[A] balanced view of Isabella's life . . . Weir succeeds in bringing to life a murky period of history, which has been shrouded in myth and legend." -- The Literary Review "Dramatic and compulsively readable, this biography paints a realistic and compassionate portrait." -- Woman & Home "Weir presents a fascinating rewriting of a controversial life that should supersede all previous accounts. Isabella is so intertwined with the greatest figures of her century and the next that any reader of English history will want this book." -- Publishers Weekly, Praise for Alison Weir Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley "The finest historian of English monarchical succession writing now is Alison Weir. . . . Her assiduousness and informed judgment are precisely what make her a writer to trust." -The Boston Globe "Conspiracy, treason, perjury, and forgery, along with . . . political assassination, and several deadly sins . . . While Ms. Weir does not stint on the sensational details, she is above all a historian and dogged researcher. She sifts through sources, which were often compromised, and thinks like a forensics expert." -The Wall Street Journal Eleanor of Aquitaine "Evocative . . . a rich tapestry of a bygone age and a judicious assessment of her subject's place within it." -Newsday "Extraordinary . . . as delicately textured as a twelfth-century tapestry . . . exhilarating in its color, ambition, and human warmth. The author exhibits a breathtaking grasp of the physical and cultural context of Queen Eleanor's life." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) "From the Hardcover edition.", Praise for Alison Weir Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley "The finest historian of English monarchical succession writing now is Alison Weir. . . . Her assiduousness and informed judgment are precisely what make her a writer to trust." The Boston Globe "Conspiracy, treason, perjury, and forgery, along with . . . political assassination, and several deadly sins . . . While Ms. Weir does not stint on the sensational details, she is above all a historian and dogged researcher. She sifts through sources, which were often compromised, and thinks like a forensics expert." The Wall Street Journal Eleanor of Aquitaine "Evocative . . . a rich tapestry of a bygone age and a judicious assessment of her subject's place within it." Newsday "Extraordinary . . . as delicately textured as a twelfth-century tapestry . . . exhilarating in its color, ambition, and human warmth. The author exhibits a breathtaking grasp of the physical and cultural context of Queen Eleanor's life." Publishers Weekly (starred review), "Gripping . . . a highly readable tour de force that brings Queen Isabella vividly to life."-- The Washington Post Book World "Insightful and compelling . . . [offers] surprise after surprise about the sensual, rather avaricious but eminently admirable Isabella."-- USA Today "[Isabella's] story has a distinctly modern appeal. . . . Full of violent men with short tempers, conniving politicians and wildly domineering parents, it's a period-piece melodrama that doubles as a timeless morality play."-- The New York Times Book Review "Fascinating . . . a work of extraordinary historical reporting that is rich, alive, and truly exciting."-- Tucson Citizen
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
942.03/6/092 B
Synopsis
Isabella arrived in London in 1308, the spirited twelve-year-old daughter of King Philip IV of France. Her marriage to the heir to England's throne was designed to heal old political wounds between the two countries, and in the years that followed, she would become an important figure, a determined and clever woman whose influence would come to last centuries. But Queen Isabella's political machinations led generations of historians to malign her, earning her a reputation as a ruthless schemer and an odious nickname, "the She-Wolf of France." Now the acclaimed author of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Alison Weir, reexamines the life of Isabella of England, history's other notorious and charismatic medieval queen. Praised for her fair looks, the newly wed Isabella was denied the attentions of Edward II, a weak, sexually ambiguous monarch with scant taste for his royal duties. As their marriage progressed, Isabella was neglected by her dissolute husband and slighted by his favored male courtiers. Humiliated and deprived of her income, her children, and her liberty, Isabella escaped to France, where she entered into a passionate affair with Edward II's mortal enemy, Roger Mortimer. Together, Isabella and Mortimer led the only successful invasion of English soil since the Norman Conquest of 1066, deposing Edward and ruling in his stead as co-regents for Isabella's young son, Edward III. Fate, however, was soon to catch up with Isabella and her lover. Many mysteries and legends have been woven around Isabella's story. She was long condemned as an accessory to Edward II's brutal murder in 1327, but recent research has cast doubt on whether that murder even took place. Isabella'sreputation, then, rests largely on the prejudices of monkish chroniclers and prudish Victorian scholars. Here Alison Weir gives a startling, groundbreaking new perspective on Isabella, in this first full biography in more than 150 years. In a work of extraordinary original research, Weir effectively strips away centuries of propaganda, legend, and romantic myth, and reveals a truly remarkable woman who had a profound influence upon the age in which she lived and the history of western Europe. Engaging, vibrant, alive with breathtaking detail and unforgettable characters, Queen Isabella is biographical history at its finest. "From the Hardcover edition.", The acclaimed historian and bestselling author of "Eleanor of Aquitaine" turns her expert eye on the dark reign of another notorious and charismatic medieval monarch, Queen Isabella of France., In this vibrant biography, acclaimed author Alison Weir reexamines the life of Isabella of England, one of history's most notorious and charismatic queens. Isabella arrived in London in 1308, the spirited twelve-year-old daughter of King Philip IV of France. Her marriage to the heir to England's throne was designed to heal old political wounds between the two countries, and in the years that followed she became an important figure, a determined and clever woman whose influence would come to last centuries. Many myths and legends have been woven around Isabella's story, but in this first full biography in more than 150 years, Alison Weir gives a groundbreaking new perspective.
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