Mary, Queen of Scots
Wormald, Jenny2018
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Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, has long been portrayed as one of history's romantically tragic figures. Devious, naïve, beautiful, and sexually voracious, often highly principled, she secured the Scottish throne and bolstered the position of the Catholic Church in Scotland. Her plotting, including probable involvement in the murder of her husband Lord Darnley, led to her flight from Scotland and imprisonment by her equally ambitious cousin and fellow queen, Elizabeth of England. Yet when Elizabeth ordered Mary's execution in 1587 it was an act of exasperated frustration rather than political wrath. Unlike biographies of Mary predating this work, this masterly study set out to show Mary as she really was - not a romantic heroine, but the ruler of a European kingdom with far greater economic and political importance than its size or location would indicate.
Main title:
Mary, Queen of Scots / Jenny Wormald.
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Edition:
[New] edition / with a foreword and afterword by Anna Groundwater.
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Birlinn, 2018.
Collation:
xxiii, 264 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm
Notes:
This edition originally published: Edinburgh: John Donald, 2017.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781780275529 (pbk)
Dewey class:
B MAR941.105092B/MAR
Language:
English
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BRN:
2667672
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