Elizabeth: The Struggle for the ThroneAn abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual—though, as she maintained, a virgin—Elizabeth I is famed as England's most successful ruler. David Starkey's brilliant new biography concentrates on Elizabeth's formative years—from her birth in 1533 to her accession in 1558—and shows how the experiences of danger and adventure formed her remarkable character and shaped her opinions and beliefs. From princess and heir-apparent to bastardized and disinherited royal, accused traitor to head of the princely household, Elizabeth experienced every vicissitude of fortune and extreme of condition—and rose above it all to reign during a watershed moment in history. A uniquely absorbing tale of one young woman's turbulent, courageous, and seemingly impossible journey toward the throne, Elizabeth is the exhilarating story of the making of a queen. |
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| 30 | |
| 35 | |
Reformed Religion | 42 |
Royal Father | 50 |
Fathers Death | 54 |
Brother King Edward VI | 61 |
A New Dynasty? | 166 |
A New England? | 171 |
A Royal Pregnancy? | 177 |
Parliamentary Revolt | 185 |
Elizabeths First Adventurers | 192 |
Honourable Imprisonment | 201 |
Marriage with Menaces | 205 |
Two Portraits Mary and Elizabeth | 214 |
Stepfather Thomas Seymour | 65 |
Adulthood | 76 |
Hatfield Further Education | 79 |
The Dudleys | 89 |
Property | 92 |
Rival Sisters | 100 |
Exclusion Edward VIs Will and Death | 107 |
Queen Mary | 118 |
The Spanish Marriage | 123 |
Rebellion | 129 |
Retribution | 135 |
The Tower | 141 |
Prisoners Progress | 147 |
Imprisonment The Politics of Protest | 151 |
Imprisonment Personal Resistance | 159 |
Power Ebbs | 217 |
Power Flows | 221 |
The Enemy Cardinal Pole | 231 |
Two Deaths | 234 |
Accession A New Government | 235 |
Between Old and New | 250 |
Coronation | 263 |
Religion Reformed | 275 |
The Limits of Religious Reform Practice | 289 |
The Limits of Religious Reform Persons | 300 |
Promise Fulfilled | 307 |
Notes on Sources | 325 |
Index | 353 |
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| Título | Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne |
| Autor | David Starkey |
| Editor | Harper Collins, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0061367435, 9780061367434 |
| Largo | 400 páginas |
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