Lisa Hilton. (2015). Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Lisa Hilton. 2015. Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince. Blackstone Publishing.

Lisa Hilton, Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince. Blackstone Publishing, 2015.

Lisa Hilton. Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2015.

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     Lisa Hilton is the acclaimed author of The Horror of Love, Mistress Peachum's Pleasure, Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens, and The Real Queen of France: Athénais and Louis XIV. She is the author of two novels, the bestselling Wolves in Winter and The House with Blue Shutters, which was short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

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A new biographical 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 of why those famous words should not be taken at face value. With new research out of France, Italy, Russia, and Turkey, Hilton's fresh interpretation is of a queen who saw herself primarily as a Renaissance prince and used Machiavellian statecraft to secure that position.

A decade since the last major biography, this Elizabeth breaks new ground and depicts a queen who was much less constrained by her femininity than most treatments claim. For readers of David Starkey and Alison Weir, it will provide a new, complex perspective on Elizabeth's emotional and sexual life. It's a fascinating journey that shows how a marginalized, newly crowned queen, whose European contemporaries considered her to be the illegitimate ruler of a pariah nation, ultimately adapted to become England's first recognizably modern head of state.

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   • content: The birth-to-death reconstruction of one of one of history's most remarkable lives, here rendered so gracefully into voice, engages both the mind and the imagination--no matter how well you already know Elizabeth I's story. Kelly Birch's narration sets a standard for the Queen's English, and soon you can expect to be talking about the "re-nay-saunce," and dropping your "r's" from "girl" and "world." Hilton sees Elizabeth I in the Machiavellian pattern of the Renaissance prince, portraying her methods and policies as the complicated interplay between her gender, her personal history, and the conventions of her time. Her depiction is persuasive, and, as a glance at the array of biographies of Elizabeth already available on audio will show, such a multifaceted personality invites an array of narrative perspectives. D.A.W. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine
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     August 24, 2015
     British novelist and historian Hilton (The Horror of Love) argues that Queen Elizabeth I’s virginity is the least interesting fact about her, and that her intellect matters far more. According to Hilton, Elizabeth consciously melded both her feminine and masculine qualities into an enormously successful example of an effective—and often Machiavellian—Renaissance “prince.” In Hilton’s account, Elizabeth loses much of her famed temper; the Tudor royal’s occasional tantrums are recast as part of a calculated and long-reaching plan. While Elizabeth certainly took the long view, it’s still unlikely that her rages were actually all strategy. But as part statesman, part coquette, and sometime arms dealer to the East, Elizabeth ably channeled her assets of wise counsel, oratorical skill, strong will, and diplomatic nous to strengthen her contested claim to the throne. In addition to providing ample context for Elizabeth’s high-stakes decisions, Hilton also describes the nuances of Protestant sects and the ever-shifting relationships between the contemporary European monarchs that required England’s full attention. In this focused, well-researched biography, Hilton transforms an irreverent, centuries-old vision of a “bewigged farthingale with a mysterious sex life” into a resolute, steel-spined
     survivor who far surpassed Henry VII’s wildest hopes for his new dynasty.

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