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Elizabeth de Lisa Hilton

Elizabeth

Autor Lisa Hilton
en Limba Engleză Paperback – noi 2016

Observăm în literatura academică dedicată dinastiei Tudor o tendință de a analiza domnia Elisabetei I predominant prin prisma constrângerilor de gen sau a vieții sale private, lăsând adesea în plan secund rigoarea sa politică. Volumul Elizabeth de Lisa Hilton completează această lacună, propunând o reevaluare ambițioasă a reginei ca un strateg politic de tip machiavelic. Apreciem modul în care autoarea depășește clișeul „trupului slab de femeie”, demonstrând cum Elisabeta a utilizat convențiile curtenești ca instrumente deliberate de putere.

Remarcăm utilizarea unor date noi din arhivele din Franța, Italia, Rusia și Turcia, care oferă o dimensiune europeană și globală adesea ignorată în biografiile anglo-centrice. Această abordare extinde cadrul propus de The Subject of Elizabeth de Louis Montrose cu date noi din surse diplomatice externe, oferind o imagine mai clară a modului în care o conducătoare considerată ilegitimă de contemporanii săi a transformat o națiune marginalizată într-un stat modern. Dacă lucrări precum Of Chastity and Power de Philippa Berry s-au concentrat pe reprezentările culturale și literare ale reginei, Lisa Hilton se ancorează în pragmatismul politic.

În contextul operei sale, Elizabeth reprezintă o evoluție naturală de la studiile sale anterioare, precum Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens, unde analiza rolul femeilor la vârful puterii. Totodată, tema ambiției și a confruntării într-o lume dominată de bărbați rezonează cu abordarea din Sex and the City of Ladies. Stilul este precis, academic dar narativ, reușind să transforme o analiză istorică riguroasă într-o lectură captivantă despre supraviețuire și viziune statală.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780544811911
ISBN-10: 0544811917
Pagini: 416
Ilustrații: 16 pp b-w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Mariner Books
Locul publicării:United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această biografie cititorilor pasionați de istoria politică a Renașterii care doresc să treacă dincolo de mitul „Reginei Fecioare”. Lisa Hilton oferă o perspectivă proaspătă, bazată pe cercetări multinaționale, transformând imaginea Elisabetei dintr-o figură tragică sau romantică într-un lider pragmatic. Este o resursă excelentă pentru înțelegerea mecanismelor puterii și a modului în care diplomația internațională a modelat Anglia modernă.

Despre autor

Lisa Hilton este o istorică și romancieră britanică de prestigiu, educată la Universitatea Oxford. Opera sa non-ficțională se concentrează pe figuri feminine marcante și pe istoria puterii în Europa, fiind cunoscută pentru lucrări precum The Real Queen of France: Athénais and Louis XIV și Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens. Capacitatea sa de a îmbina rigoarea cercetării cu o scriitură alertă i-a adus aprecieri critice, fiind considerată una dintre vocile importante care reevaluează rolul femeilor în istoria politică europeană. Locuiește în Londra și colaborează frecvent cu publicații culturale de renume.

Descriere scurtă

“Game-changing . . . How history should be written.” — Andrew Roberts, author of Napoleon: A Life

[An] ambitious re-examination of the intersection of gender and monarchy.” — New York Times Book Review
 
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 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—an expert in Machiavellian statecraft. 

Elizabeth depicts a queen who was much less constrained by her femininity than most accounts claim, challenging readers to reassess Elizabeth’s reign and the colorful drama and intrigue to which it is always linked. 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.
 
“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.” — Publishers Weekly

Recenzii

"There is no shortage of biographies of Britain's Elizabeth I (1533-1603), but readers should pay attention to this thoughtful, often ingenious account. British novelist and historian Hilton (Wolves in Winter, 2012, etc.) agrees that Elizabeth stood out because she was a woman, but she claims that biographers often focus on her femininity to the exclusion of qualities shared by fellow rulers. Elizabeth's intellectual upbringing "gave her a princely self-image not in the least circumscribed by femininity." She referred to herself as " ‘a prince from a line of princes,' even when those princes were not necessarily male." Hilton emphasizes that the 16th century marked the end of the medieval concept of "chivalric kingship," which taught that rulers governed according to Christian tenets. When they lied, cheated, or murdered, this was shameful. A Renaissance prince, besides being more educated, understood that in the service of preserving the state, immoral actions were not only essential, but ethical. This was reflected, of course, in Machiavelli's The Prince (first distributed in 1513 but not published until 1532), which was universally read, denounced, and heeded, most skillfully by Elizabeth. With regular nods to Machiavelli, Hilton delivers an enthralling account of a life and reign during which Elizabeth dealt with murderous rival claimants and fended off superpower Spain, a fiercely hostile Papacy, and an increasingly intolerant, stingy Parliament. She was lucky and charismatic, chose competent advisers, never forgot the limitations of her power, and left England far more united and self-confident. Despite this, it took 20 years of experience of her successor, James I, before Britons wistfully realized that Elizabeth had presided over a golden age, an opinion Hilton does not reject. Mildly revisionist, well-argued, and thoroughly satisfying."--Kirkus, STARRED review   “Game-changing . . . How history should be written.” —Andrew Roberts, author of Napoleon: A Life    “It is refreshing to be confronted by challenging arguments instead of tired anecdotes. This biography is also full of unusual and interesting insights . . . What I am left with above all are haunting images of a scented room and a face dusted with alabaster—the living cameo of a most exceptional prince.”  —Leanda de Lisle, author of The Sisters Who Would be Queen, for the Spectator     “Hilton provides us with an accomplished evocation of a remarkable ruler. Her book is as elegantly fashioned and ingeniously contrived as those pieces of Renaissance jewelry that Elizabeth loved to wear.”  —Anne Somerset, author of Queen Anne, for the Mail on Sunday —

Notă biografică

LISA HILTON is the acclaimed author of The Real Queen of France: Athénais and Louis XIV, Mistress Peachum's Pleasure, Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens, and The Horror of Love. She is the author of three novels, the best-selling Wolves in Winter; The House with Blue Shutters, which was short-listed in the UK for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and The Stolen Queen. She was educated at Oxford University and lives in central London.

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A definitive portrait of one of the most compelling monarchs England has ever had: Elizabeth I.

'We are a prince from a line of princes.'

Lisa Hilton's majestic biography of Elizabeth I, 'The Virgin Queen', uses new research to present a fresh interpretation of Elizabeth as a queen who saw herself primarily as a Renaissance prince, delivering a very different perspective on her emotional and sexual life, and upon her attempts to mould England into a European state. Elizabeth was not an exceptional woman but an exceptional ruler, and this book challenges readers to reassess her reign, and the colourful drama, scandal and intrigue to which it is always linked.