Buy this book on-line GUY,JOHN: : Queen of Scots: THE TRUE LIFE OF MARY STUARTUS.BOSTON/NY.HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY,2004. ISBN 0618254110.
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portrait painting - courtesy of National Portrait Gallery,London),
with white and gilt lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents
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backstrip and immaculate facsimile reproduction of Mary's last letter,
hours before her execution,
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table,acknowledgements,prologue,30 chapters and an epilogue,24pp contemporary b/w illus+reproductions
in 3 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp106/7,pp266/7 and pp426/7 respectively,a chronology,notes,a biblio,an index and illustration credits.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,dedication,an epigram,3pp genealogies,3 b/w maps (16thC Scotland and France),title separator page,and 4pp blanks at the
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The eminent historian John Guy has unearthed a wealth of evidence that upends the popular notion of Mary Queen of Scots as a femme fatale and
establishes her as the intellectual and political equal of Elizabeth I.
Guy draws on sources as varied as the secret communiques of English spies and Mary's own letters (many hitherto unstudied) to depict her world and her actions with stunning immediacy.Here is a revelatory reappraisal of her multifaceted character and prodigious political skill.Guy dispels the ingrained popular image of Mary as a romantic leading lady,achieving her ends through her feminine wiles,driven by
love to murder,undone by passion and bad judgement.Through his pioneering research,we come to see her as an emotionally intricate woman and an adroit diplomat,
maneuvering ingeniously among a dizzying array of factions - the French,the English,duplicitous Scottish nobles,and religious zealots - who sought to control or dethrone her.Guy's investigation of Mary's storied downfall throws sharp
new light on questions that have baffled historians for centuries,and
offers convincing new evidence that she was framed for the murder for which she was beheaded.
'Queen of Scots',the first full-scale biography of Mary in more than
thirty years (then 2004),offers a singularly novel,nuanced,and dramatic portrait of one of history's greatest women.
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