{"product_id":"elizabeth-book-lisa-hilton-9780544577848","title":"Elizabeth","description":"\u003cb\u003e[An] ambitious re-examination of the intersection of gender and monarchy. \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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\u003ci\u003eElizabeth, \u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElizabeth \u003c\/i\u003edepicts 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 VI s wildest hopes for his new dynasty. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lisa Hilton is the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eAthenais, Mistress Peachum s Pleasure, Queens Consort\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Horror of Love. \u003c\/i\u003eShe is also the author of three novels, the best-selling \u003ci\u003eWolves in Winter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe House with Blue Shutters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e which was short-listed in the UK for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and\u003ci\u003e The Stolen Queen.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49583403696401,"sku":"GOR009173979","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50413605028113,"sku":"GOR013940968","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52724238844177,"sku":"CIN0544577841G","price":5.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52816037216529,"sku":"CIN0544577841VG","price":4.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53683683098897,"sku":"CIN0544577841A","price":5.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0544577841.jpg?v=1751072762","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/elizabeth-book-lisa-hilton-9780544577848","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}