Queenship and Political Discourse in the Elizabethan Realms
This book re-evaluates the nature of Elizabethan politics and Elizabeth's queenship in late sixteenth-century England, Wales and Ireland. Natalie Mears shows that Elizabeth took an active role in policy-making and suggests that Elizabethan politic...
Jan Brueghel and the Senses of Scale
Unlike the work of his contemporaries Rubens and Caravaggio, who painted on a grand scale, seventeenth-century Flemish painter Jan Brueghel's tiny, detail-filled paintings took their place not in galleries but among touchable objects. This first b...
Elizabeth
'The best account in English of the early years of Elizabeth' Evening Standard A woman in a man's world, Queen Elizabeth I was to become England's most successful ruler. Confident in her destiny, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she...
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Wydeville, Queen consort to Edward IV, has traditionally been portrayed as a scheming opportunist. As this extraordinary biography shows, the first queen to bear the name Elizabeth lived a tragedy, love, and loss that no other queen has ...
Elizabeth
Sarah Bradford's Elizabeth is the definitive biography of the Queen, revealing the real woman behind the public figure The Queen lived through nearly a century of immense change and upheaval. Her own family experiences, a mixture of happi...
Elizabeth
Fully revised and updated. Queen Elizabeth II was the longest-serving monarch in British history, with a reign even longer than Queen Victoria. Her extraordinary life is expertly portrayed by Jennie Bond, former BBC royal correspondent, in this magnificent visually led biography. On February 6, 1952, Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, became Queen on the death of her father, King George VI. The reign that was to see major changes both in the country and Commonwealth and in the role of the monarchy began far away from Britain in a game reserve in Kenya. Elizabeth: A Celebration in Photographs, looks at this remarkable period in the history of Britain's monarchy in lavish and fascinating detail, featuring over 250 photographs. Constantly under scrutiny the entire time she was on the throne, this book presents a balanced and absorbing account of the Queen's life and of her role as the head of state in a country and a world that have changed almost beyond recognition in the seventy
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Taylor is known internationally as one of the most beautiful and talented women ever to grace the silver screen. She has won two Academy Awards and starred in over sixty films. She is just as well known for her tempestuous personal life,...
Elizabeth
THE NO 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A personal account of the life and character of Britain's longest-reigning monarch, from the writer who knew her family best 'Compelling . . . Fascinating' DAILY MAIL 'The writer who got closest to the human truth ...
Elizabeth
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 int...
Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature
16th-century Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder redefined how people perceived human nature. Bruegel turned his critical eye to mankind's labours and pleasures, its foibles and rituals of daily life. Portraying landscapes, peasant life and b...
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Elizabeth, the Queen
Elizabeth the Queen begins as the young Elizabeth ascends the throne in the wake of her sister Mary's disastrous reign - both a woman and a queen, Elizabeth's story is an extraordinary phenomenon in a patriarchal age. From Elizabeth's intriguing, ...
Elisabeth
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Alice, Sweet Alice
OBS! Import. Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.1970s US slasher horror. When nine-year-old Karen (Brooke Shields) is murdered at her Holy Communion, the blame immediately falls on her seemingly innocent 12-year-old sister Alice (Paula Sheppard). Despite the fact that all the evidence points to her being guilty, Alice's family refuse to believe she is the killer. However, the investigation becomes more complicated when other members of her family are attacked, leaving sweet little Alice as the prime suspect...Typ: Blu-ray
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop dedicated her poetry to telling 'what really happened'. Yet what really happened in the life on one of the twentieth century's finest and most beloved American poets has eluded readers for years. In this first full biography, Bret...
Elizabeth I
This long-awaited and masterfully edited volume contains nearly all of the writings of Queen Elizabeth 1: the clumsy letters of childhood, the early speeches of a fledgling queen, and the prayers and poetry of the monarch's later years. The first ...
Elizabeth Bishop
In this finely written companion to Elizabeth Bishop's poetry, Bonnie Costello gives a compelling use of Bishop and her ways of seeing and writing.
Elizabeth Peyton
Elizabeth Peyton s work has been acclaimed since the early 1990s, when she began exhibiting her intimate portraits of artists, musicians, historical figures, and friends. This new volume, prepared by the artist in collaboration with designer Brend...
Elizabeth Blackadder
This extensively illustrated book is devoted to the art of Dame Elizabeth Blackadder, one of Scotland's best loved painters. Blackadder's art explores a diverse range of subjects through many mediums. The artist draws on experiences of foreign tra...
Becoming Elizabeth
OBS! Import. Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.All eight episodes of the historical drama which stars Alicia von Rittberg as Elizabeth Tudor and explores the future monarch's early life. After the death of her father Henry VIII, Elizabeth's younger half brother Edward (Oliver Zetterström) becomes king and she is sent to live with Catherine Parr (Jessica Raine) and her new husband Thomas Seymour (Tom Cullen). Elizabeth soon finds herself caught in the middle of the feud between Edward and their half sister Mary (Romola Garai) while she also learns to navigate the increasingly dangerous royal court. The episodes are: 'Keep Your Knife Bright', 'You Cannot Keep the Birds from Flying Over Your Head', 'Either Learn Or Be Silent', 'Lighten Our Darkness', 'Necessity Compels Me to Plague You', 'What Cannot Be Cured', 'To Laugh to Lie, to Flatter, to Face' and 'To Death We Must Stoop'.Typ: DVD
Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop represents a full-scale examination of Bishop's work-poetry, prose, and selected unpublished material-to reveal how personal loss becomes implicated in her vision of self as fluid and unfixed and, at the same time, how gender and ...
Becoming Elizabeth
OBS! Import. Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.All eight episodes of the historical drama which stars Alicia von Rittberg as Elizabeth Tudor and explores the future monarch's early life. After the death of her father Henry VIII, Elizabeth's younger half brother Edward (Oliver Zetterström) becomes king and she is sent to live with Catherine Parr (Jessica Raine) and her new husband Thomas Seymour (Tom Cullen). Elizabeth soon finds herself caught in the middle of the feud between Edward and their half sister Mary (Romola Garai) while she also learns to navigate the increasingly dangerous royal court. The episodes are: 'Keep Your Knife Bright', 'You Cannot Keep the Birds from Flying Over Your Head', 'Either Learn Or Be Silent', 'Lighten Our Darkness', 'Necessity Compels Me to Plague You', 'What Cannot Be Cured', 'To Laugh to Lie, to Flatter, to Face' and 'To Death We Must Stoop'.Typ: Blu-ray
Elizabeth I
Recently the University of Chicago Press published "Elizabeth I: Collected Works" to considerable critical acclaim. "Collected Works" brought together for the first time in one volume the speeches, poems, prayer...
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor
The first volume to examine the iconic Elizabeth Taylor in this light, Elizabeth Taylor: A Private Life for Public Consumption paints Taylor as the seminal representation of "celebrity." A figure of enormous charisma and cultural sway, s...
Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell
Lady Elizabeth
England, 1536. Home to the greatest, most glittering court in English history. But beneath the dazzling façade lies treachery . . . Elizabeth Tudor is daughter to Henry VIII, the most powerful king England has ever known. She is destined to ascend...
