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- Hardcover
- 352
- Elizabeth: Apprenticeship
- David Starkey
- English
- 24 November 2020
- 9780701169398
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Elizabeth: Apprenticeship review à 109 Elizabeth's own speeches and writings Starkey lays novel emphasis on two things her faith made her see religion as a purely personal relationship between the individual conscience and God yet her sophisticated education led her to a smoke and mirrors view of politics in which clever image making and speech writing could solve or postpone real problems The result was a surprisingly contemporary appro. view spoiler Bettie s Books hide spoiler
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Elizabeth: Apprenticeship review à 109 An abused child yet confident of her destiny to reign a woman in a man's world passionately sexual yet she said a virgin famed as England's most successful ruler yet actually doing very little Elizabeth I is a bundle of contradictions In this new lavishly illustrated biography published to accompany a Channel 4 series presented by the author David Starkey turns the paradox into a person Starting with. Learned opinionated and witty this is an excellent biography of Elizabeth I s early years While some knowledge of British and European history in the sixteenth century is presumed this book should not be beyond the reach of a high school student Indeed unlike many other historians of the period Starkey is usually careful to provide definitions either directly or by context of some of the archaic terms which vividly color his portrayal of the behaviors of aristocrats and high churchmen of the times He is also unusually good at keeping the main players individuals and families and their relations with one another clearly definedThis is the story of the upper classes of the Tudor era in general and of Elizabeth in particular Indeed it borders on a psychobiography of the ueen of whom the author has a pretty clear sense however debatable and towards whom he has no small affection It is also appropriately enough a history of England s conversion from Roman Catholicism to something no longer Roman and not uite ProtestantI cannot emphasize enough how fun this book was to read how effortlessly its author instructed me I am no expert on Tudor history nor had I formerly held any fondness for this monarch I remain inexpert but a little bit of the glamour carried over enough to cause me to want to rethink what I have thought about Elizabeth and her reign I ll be keeping my eye open for of Starkey s books about the Tudors
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Elizabeth: Apprenticeship review à 109 Ach to some very modern uestions like civil strife in Scotland and Ireland and the risk of England's absorption into a European super state This new approach to the enigma of the ueen's character is presented within a lively and readable retelling of her reign; her love for Robert Dudley the tragi comedy of her favourites and suitors and her epic struggles with Mary ueen of Scots and Philip II of Spa. David Starkey writes with the assumption that he is always right He never argues his point just states it while dismissing other historian s research I love the subject matter but cannot bear his tone