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Elizabeth de John Guy

Elizabeth

Autor John Guy
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 mar 2017

În a doua jumătate a secolului al XVI-lea, Anglia se afla la o răscruce de drumuri, captivă între amenințările externe ale marilor puteri catolice și tensiunile interne ale unei succesiuni incerte. Ne aflăm în anul 1583: regina are cincizeci de ani, speranțele unui mariaj politic s-au stins, iar consilierii săi devin tot mai nerăbdători. Într-un moment de furie reprimată, Elizabeth decide că nu mai este suficient doar să domnească, ci trebuie să conducă efectiv. John Guy ne propune o perspectivă narativă fascinantă asupra acestor „ani uitați”, refuzând să trateze ultima parte a domniei sale ca pe un simplu post-scriptum după înfrângerea Armadei Spaniole. Considerăm că forța acestui volum rezidă în capacitatea autorului de a demonta mitul „Reginei Fecioare” imuabile, dezvăluind o femeie măcinată de insecurități, care refuză să doarmă singură de teamă și care navighează printre trădările curții cu o inteligență feroce. Abordarea jurnalistică și detectivismul istoric în arhive evocă rigoarea din The Life of Elizabeth I de Alison Weir, dar perspectiva lui Guy este mult mai intimă, concentrându-se pe transformarea psihologică a unei suverane care își asumă puterea absolută tocmai când lumea o credea vulnerabilă din cauza vârstei. Față de ficțiunea istorică Queen of This Realm de Jean Plaidy, care romanțează vocea reginei, Guy reușește să recupereze vocea autentică a lui Elizabeth direct din manuscrisele vremii. Această biografie se înscrie organic în opera autorului, continuând explorarea dinastiilor Tudor începută în Hunting the Falcon și Mary Queen of Scots, menținând același ritm alert și o atenție microscopică la detaliul politic.

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ISBN-13: 9780143110095
ISBN-10: 0143110098
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 137 x 211 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group

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John Guy este un istoric britanic de renume, membru al Clare College, Cambridge, recunoscut drept unul dintre cei mai importanți specialiști contemporani în perioada Tudor. Cu o carieră dedicată cercetării riguroase, Guy s-a distins prin abilitatea de a transforma documentele de arhivă în narațiuni captivante. Printre lucrările sale de referință se numără biografia recompensată cu numeroase premii a Mary Queen of Scots, care a stat la baza unei adaptări cinematografice majore, și studiile despre Thomas More sau Thomas Gresham. Expertiza sa în descifrarea manuscriselor vechi îi conferă autoritate în demitizarea figurilor istorice consacrate.

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"A fresh, thrilling portrait... Guy's Elizabeth is deliciously human."
-Stacy Schiff, The New York Times Book Review A groundbreaking reconsideration of our favorite Tudor queen, Elizabeth is an intimate and surprising biography that shows her at the height of her power. Elizabeth was crowned queen at twenty-five, but it was only when she reached fifty and all hopes of a royal marriage were behind her that she began to wield power in her own right. For twenty-five years she had struggled to assert her authority over advisers, who pressed her to marry and settle the succession; now, she was determined not only to reign but to rule. In this magisterial biography, John Guy introduces us to a woman who is refreshingly unfamiliar: at once powerful and vulnerable, willful and afraid. We see her confronting challenges at home and abroad: war against France and Spain, revolt in Ireland, an economic crisis that triggers riots in the streets of London, and a conspiracy to place her cousin Mary Queen of Scots on her throne. For a while she is smitten by a much younger man, but can she allow herself to act on that passion and still keep her throne? For the better part of a decade John Guy mined long-overlooked archives, scouring handwritten letters and court documents to sweep away myths and rumors. This prodigious historical detective work has enabled him to reveal, for the first time, the woman behind the polished veneer: determined, prone to fits of jealous rage, wracked by insecurity, often too anxious to sleep alone. At last we hear her in her own voice expressing her own distinctive and surprisingly resonant concerns. Guy writes like a dream, and this combination of groundbreaking research and propulsive narrative puts him in a class of his own. "Significant, forensic and myth-busting, John Guy inspires total confidence in a narrative which is at once pacey and rich in detail."
-- Anna Whitelock, TLS "Most historians focus on the early decades, with Elizabeth's last years acting as a postscript to the beheading of Mary Queen of Scots and the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Guy argues that this period is crucial to understanding a more human side of the smart redhead." - The Economist, Book of the Year

Notă biografică

John Guy is an award-winning historian of Tudor England. A Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, he is the author of Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart, a major international bestseller that won the Whitbread Award and the Marsh Biography Award and was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. His other books include A Daughter's Love: Thomas More and His Dearest Meg; Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel; the biography of Henry VIII for the Penguin Monarchs series and a landmark, bestselling history of Tudor England.

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The brilliance ofElizabeth: The Forgotten Yearslies in the energy of its narrative, as well as in Guy's eye and ear for scene and conversation. To interweave all of this with the life of the queen is a formidable achievement. He has captured the complexity of contemporary politics. ... Most striking is Guy's portrait of Elizabeth
A gripping story of Queen Elizabeth's last years, authoritatively researched and engagingly recounted by the leading Tudor historian of our age
One of the very best historians we have in the country . . . It is brilliant, vigorous history, and a triumph of storytelling and scholarship
Guy's careful work with documents known and unknown, scattered throughout Europe's archives, allows him to paint a novel portrait of a complex - maybe even unknowable - queen
The best biography ever written of the Virgin Queen - a revisionist, sensitive, compelling, majestic masterwork that you can't put down
A gripping story of Queen Elizabeth's last years, authoritatively researched and engagingly recounted by the leading Tudor historian of our age. It will be of special interest to anyone interested in the political world in which Shakespeare's Elizabethan drama is steeped-from anxiety over royal succession to England's costly war in Ireland
John Guy's Elizabeth presents a beautifully rounded portrait of both the woman and the queen. Thanks to Guy's prodigious use of previously untapped material, we see, for the very first time, the full panoply of ambition and insecurity, plotting and deceit that marked the middle years of her reign. This is a masterful biography.
As you'd expect from John Guy, this is a very good read, a vivid and fascinating warts-and-all portrait of the ageing Elizabeth, backed by meticulous research
One of the very best historians we have in the country. Guy is in his element prising off the myths that are barnacled to the queen. It is brilliant, vigorous history, and a triumph of storytelling and scholarship
John Guy is arguably the world's leading expert on Tudor history. When he writes a book, especially this, his first on Elizabeth's life, it should be taken very seriously as having something new to say, and so it does ... a wonderful book and a magisterial account of the latter half of Elizabeth's reign that calmly reassesses every claim and myth by simply reading all the original manuscript correspondence. The result puts the record straight, but it also allows Guy to produce a pacy and compelling story
Guy pored through 250,000 manuscripts in his quest to understand the ageing Elizabeth. Intimidated by that mountain of parchment, most historians have tended to recycle the myths of Gloriana and Good Queen Bess. Not Guy. Guy is no ordinary historian. Few can match his ruthless obsession for accuracy. Between every line comes whispered reassurance: "You can trust me; I touched those documents." Guy the scholar melds perfectly with Guy the storyteller. Small tales are used to illustrate big issues. Under the weight of Guy's scrutiny, familiar myths crumble. The weight of evidence suggests that he understands Elizabeth better than any historian has
[A] most excellent biography. It puts a cruel but clarifying lends on the vain monarch's twilight years. She has never been more exposed than in Guy's tome. A contender for history book of the year
What emerges from the author's great efforts to mine the archives for a truer picture is a more flawed Elizabeth - but perhaps a more human one
John Guy, as eminent a Tudor historian as they come, has set himself the explicit task of correcting Strachey's colourful narrative of Elizabeth's old age. The result is 400 pages of outstandingly documented scholarly detail ... scholarship that should earn the respect of popular and expert reader alike
Superb ... John Guy persuades us that pretty much everything we think we know about Elizabeth is wrong
There is a lot to like about this book. Energetic [in] tone... Guy is a lively guide ... Guy is especially good when describing the political machinations of Burghley and Walsingham ... [and] Guy gives us a clean sense of a man [the Earl of Essex] who was brilliant, vain, petulant and self-serving in equal measure
Enthralling... the book is also beautifully illustrated
Guy is exceptionally good on how various myths took root
Outstanding. This page-turning book is history, biography, scholarship personified, and a crystal-clear look at Elizabeth in the war years that erases the myths and presents the real woman. Absolutely one of the best biographies of Elizabeth ever
With the remarkable advantage of access to long-buried and misfiled primary sources [...] the aging monarch receives a balanced treatment. [Gives] readers a fuller view of the confident, experienced, and adaptable queen
The dean of living Tudor-era historians
Meticulously researched and highly readable revisionist biography. Recommended for lovers of British history and feminist biography
A fresh, thrilling portrait
Oft portrayed as fierce, this reveals an Elizabeth I who is in fact fallible and insecure
Significant, forensic and myth-busting, John Guy inspires total confidence in a narrative which is at once pacy and rich in detail

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History has pictured Elizabeth I as Gloriana, an icon of strength and power -- and has focused on the early years of her reign. But in 1583, when Elizabeth is fifty, there is relentless plotting among her courtiers -- and still to come is the Spanish Armada and the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. We have not, until now, had the full picture.
This gripping and vivid portrait of her life and times -- often told in her own words (and including details such as her love of chess and marzipan) -- reveals a woman who was insecure, human ('You know I am no morning woman'), and unpopular even with the men who fought for her. This is the real Elizabeth, for the first time.