Author: E. Sadlack
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230118569
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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A fresh biography of Mary Tudor which challenges conventional views of her as a weeping hysteric and love-struck romantic, providing instead the portrait of a queen who drew on two sources of authority to increase the power of her position: epistolary conventions and the rhetoric of chivalry that imbued the French and English courts.

Author: Queen of Great Britain Victoria
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465529462
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2808

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Entrusted by His Majesty the King with the duty of making a selection from Queen Victoria's correspondence, we think it well to describe briefly the nature of the documents which we have been privileged to examine, as well as to indicate the principles which have guided us throughout. It has been a task of no ordinary difficulty. Her Majesty Queen Victoria dealt with her papers, from the first, in a most methodical manner; she formed the habit in early days of preserving her private letters, and after her accession to the Throne all her official papers were similarly treated, and bound in volumes. The Prince Consort instituted an elaborate system of classification, annotating and even indexing many of the documents with his own hand. The result is that the collected papers form what is probably the most extraordinary series of State documents in the world. The papers which deal with the Queen's life up to the year 1861 have been bound in chronological order, and comprise between five and six hundred volumes. They consist, in great part, of letters from Ministers detailing the proceedings of Parliament, and of various political memoranda dealing with home, foreign, and colonial policy; among these are a few drafts of Her Majesty's replies. There are volumes concerned with the affairs of almost every European country; with the history of India, the British Army, the Civil List, the Royal Estates, and all the complicated machinery of the Monarchy and the Constitution. There are letters from monarchs and royal personages, and there is further a whole series of volumes dealing with matters in which the Prince Consort took a special interest. Some of them are arranged chronologically, some by subjects. Among the most interesting volumes are those containing the letters written by Her Majesty to her uncle Leopold, King of the Belgians, and his replies.1 The collection of letters from and to Lord Melbourne forms another hardly less interesting series. In many places Queen Victoria caused extracts, copied from her own private Diaries, dealing with important political events or describing momentous interviews, to be inserted in the volumes, with the evident intention of illustrating and completing the record.

Author: Jeanne D’Albret
Publisher: Iter Press
ISBN: 9780866985451
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This edition presents in English, for the first time, Jeanne d’Albret’s Letters to the king, his mother, his brother, her own brother-in-law, and the queen of England, together with her Ample Declaration (1568) defending her decampment to the Protestant stronghold of La Rochelle. A historical-biographical introduction situates these writings in the larger context of Reformation politics and examines in detail the specific literary characteristics of her memoir. In her works, Jeanne d’Albret asserts her own position as legal sovereign of Béarn and Navarre and situates herself at the nexus of overlapping political, religious, and familial tensions.

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Languages : en
Pages : 22

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Author: Mary (Queen of Scots)
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Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Author: Queen Victoria
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732624269
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 622

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Reproduction of the original.

Author: Maria (Schottland, Königin)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 442

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Author: Mary (Queen of Scots)
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Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Author: Mary (Queen of Scots)
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Languages : en
Pages : 450

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Author: Sarah Bryson
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445673894
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409

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The life of the beautiful Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII, through her own words and letters and the correspondence of those who knew her.