Elizabeth & Leicester - Hardcover

Elizabeth & Leicester. Power, Passion, Politics.

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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: Gut. 407 p.: Ill. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Randläsuren, berieben, Schutzumschlag an einigen Stellen leicht eingerissen, sonst guter Zustand / edge wear, rubbed, dust jacket slightly torn in some places, otherwise good condition. - Few relationships fire the imagination like that of Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley the love affair immortalized in Philippa Gregorys The Virgin s Lover but nearly fifty years have passed since we have seen a dual biography that explores the truth about their lifelong love. This is a gripping, unconventional account of one of history s most fascinating alliances. No one knows quite when and where their relationship began though Leicester once said he d known Elizabeth since she was eight years old but soon after she became queen, she scandalized the royal court with her passionate obsession with the married courtier. When Dudley s wife mysteriously died two years later, there was rampant speculation that Elizabeth and Dudley would marry. Instead, over the next three decades, they formed a strikingly modern working partnership and an intimate bond of mutual dependence. Throughout his life, Robert advised Elizabeth, serving as her counselor, unofficial consort and army commander. He guarded her sickbed and represented her on state occasions. Though she returned Dudley s devotion, Elizabeth humiliated him, made him act as a go-between with her other suitors and tried to imprison him when he finally remarried. Fueled by scandal and intrigue, this royal relationship was never dull. Why did they never marry? What were Elizabeth s motives in offering Leicester to her half sister, Mary? How much of their passionate attachment and their restraint was actually political convenience? Sarah Gristwood reignites this f A smoldering four-hundred-year-old love j story in her lush, intimate portrait of I two people whose outsized personalities " transformed their age. / CONTENTS Preface 1 Some secret constellation : 1533-1536 2 Her eighth year : 1536-1547 3 The occasion of his utter undoing : 1547-1553 4 This night I think to die : 1553-1559 5 The King that is to be : spring 1559-summer 1560 6 So sudden a chance : autumn 1560 7 Maiden honour and integrity : 1560-1561 8 Not yet towards a marriage : 1561-1565 9 Majesty and love do not sit well together : 1565-1567 10 The daughter of debate : 1568-1569 11 The great Lord : the 1570s 12 Our estate requireth a match : 1570-1572 13 I have long both loved and liked you : 1573-1575 14 Dishonorable brutes : 1576-1579 15 The greatest prince in Christendom : 1578-1582 16 In times of distress : 1582-1584 17 Her Majesty will make trial of me : 1585-1588 18 A thing whereof we can admit no comfort : 1588 19 To end this life for her service Appendix I: The second Robert Dudley Appendix II: The Arthur Dudley mystery Afterword: some fictional treatments Notes on sources Acknowledgements Picture acknowledgements Index. ISBN 9780670018284 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 630 Originalhardcover with dustjacket. Artikel-Nr. 1173835

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