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  • Blood, Fire & Gold

    The Story of Elizabeth I & Catherine de Medici

    by Estelle Paranque ...
    A beautifully thorough examination into the complicated relationship between Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici, two of the most powerful women in Renaissance Europe who shaped each other as well as the course of history.Sixteenth-century Europe was a hostile world dominated by court politics and patriarchal structures–and yet against all odds, two women rose to power: Elizabeth I and Catherine ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Thorns, Lust, and Glory

    The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn

    by Estelle Paranque ...
    In this groundbreaking biography of Queen Anne Boleyn, learn how the ill-fated second wife of Renaissance England's Henry XVIII met her downfall–and how she came to be so vilified and misunderstood.Anne Boleyn has mesmerized the general public for centuries. Her tragic execution at the Tower of London on the 19th of May, 1536—orchestrated by her own husband—never ceases to intrigue. While many ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Elizabeth I of England through Valois Eyes

    Power, Representation, and Diplomacy in the Reign of the Queen, 1558–1588

    by Estelle Paranque ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines the first thirty years of Elizabeth I’s reign from the perspective of the Valois kings, Charles IX and Henri III of France. Estelle Paranque sifts through hundreds of French letters and ambassadorial reports to construct a fuller picture of early modern Anglo-French relations, highlighting key events such as the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, the imprisonment and execution of ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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    Blood, Fire & Gold

    The Story of Elizabeth I & Catherine de Medici

    by Estelle Paranque ...
    Narrated by Anna Wilson-Jones ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 41 min

    A beautifully thorough examination into the complicated relationship between Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici, two of the most powerful women in Renaissance Europe who shaped each other as well as the course of history.Sixteenth-century Europe was a hostile world dominated by court politics and patriarchal structures–and yet against all odds, two women rose to power: Elizabeth I and Catherine ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Thorns, Lust, and Glory

    The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn

    by Estelle Paranque ...
    Narrated by Anna Wilson-Jones ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 18 min

    In this groundbreaking biography of Queen Anne Boleyn, learn how the ill-fated second wife of Renaissance England's Henry XVIII met her downfall–and how she came to be so vilified and misunderstood.Anne Boleyn has mesmerized the general public for centuries. Her tragic execution at the Tower of London on the 19th of May, 1536—orchestrated by her own husband—never ceases to intrigue. While many ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Forgotten Queens in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

    Political Agency, Myth-Making, and Patronage

    Edited by Valerie Schutte, Estelle Paranque ...
    Forgotten Queens in Medieval and Early Modern Europe examines queens dowager and queens consort who have disappeared from history or have been deeply misunderstood in modern historical treatment.Divided into eleven chapters, this book covers queenship from 1016 to 1800, demonstrating the influence of queens in different aspects of monarchy over eight centuries and furthering our knowledge of the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France

    Reputation, Reinterpretation, and Reincarnation

    Edited by Estelle Paranque ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This collection examines the afterlives of early modern English and French rulers. Spanning five centuries of cultural memory, the volume offers case studies of how kings and queens were remembered, represented, and reincarnated in a wide range of sources, from contemporary pageants, plays, and visual art to twenty-first-century television, and from premodern fiction to manga and romance novels. ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe

    The Roles of Powerful Women and Queens

    Edited by Estelle Paranque, Nate Probasco, Claire Jowitt ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This collection brings together essays examining the international influence of queens, other female rulers, and their representatives from 1450 through 1700, an era of expanding colonial activity and sea trade. As Europe rose in prominence geopolitically, a number of important women—such as Queen Elizabeth I of England, Catherine de Medici, Caterina Cornaro of Cyprus, and Isabel Clara Eugenia of ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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    Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber

    The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale

    by Sean O'Driscoll ...
    Narrated by Gerry O'Brien ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 36 min

    Brought to you by penguin.The astonishing story of the English heiress who devoted her life to the IRAShe grew up in a Chelsea townhouse and on a Devon estate.She was presented to the Queen at Buckingham Palace as a debutante in 1958.She trained at Oxford as an academic economist and had a love affair with a female professor (who was on the rebound from Iris Murdoch).At thirty, she comm... ... Read more

    $17.45 USD

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  • Divide and Rule

    Royal Women and Their Battles

    by Catherine Mayer ...
    From Elizabeth I to Diana to Kate and Meghan, these are the complex and utterly engrossing stories of Britain's royal women behind the public façade. Saints or sinners? Perfect princesses or difficult duchesses? Monarchy’s saviours or its destroyers?They rank among the world’s most famous women – and the most misunderstood. Throughout history, royal women have been sanitised and sanctified by ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    The Siege of Loyalty House

    A new history of the English Civil War

    by Jessie Childs ...
    Narrated by Miranda Raison ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 49 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The Civil War was the most traumatic conflict in British history, pitting friends and family members against each other and tearing down the old order.Award-winning historian Jessie Childs plunges the reader into the shock of the struggle through one of its most dramatic episodes: the siege of Basing House. To the parliamentarian Roundheads, the Hampshire mansion was a ... Read more

    $17.45 USD

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    Devil-Land

    England Under Siege, 1588-1688

    by Clare Jackson ...
    Narrated by Emma Gregory ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 10 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.**A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021, AS CHOSEN BY THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTA ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history**Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as 'Devil-Land': a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal collapse ... Read more

    $21.48 USD

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