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ABOUT THIS BOOK; First edition, first print run, hardback intact and clean and undamaged with original paper cover in good condition. Almost as new, very very slight yellowing of page edges as per age. A brilliant and in-depth biog of Isabella of France, born 1292. In three parts: Isabella and Mortimer; Isabella and Edward; and Isabella. 35 images and plates, 2 maps. Contact me for further info via Amazon.
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"Gripping . . . a highly readable tour de force that brings Queen Isabella vividly to life."--"The Washington Post Book World"
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"[Isabella's] story has a distinctly modern appeal. . . . Full of violent men with short tempers, conniving politicians and wildly domineering parents, it's a period-piece melodrama that doubles as a timeless morality play."--"The New York Times Book Review
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"Fascinating . . . a work of extraordinary historical reporting that is rich, alive, and truly exciting."--"Tucson Citizen"
Gripping . . . a highly readable tour de force that brings Queen Isabella vividly to life. "The Washington Post Book World"
Insightful and compelling . . . [offers] surprise after surprise about the sensual, rather avaricious but eminently admirable Isabella. "USA Today"
[Isabella s] story has a distinctly modern appeal. . . . Full of violent men with short tempers, conniving politicians and wildly domineering parents, it s a period-piece melodrama that doubles as a timeless morality play. "The New York Times Book Review
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Fascinating . . . a work of extraordinary historical reporting that is rich, alive, and truly exciting. "Tucson Citizen""
"Gripping . . . a highly readable tour de force that brings Queen Isabella vividly to life."--The Washington Post Book World
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The first full-length biography of a much maligned - but astonishingly colourful - Queen of England.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The first full-length biography of a much maligned - but astonishingly colourful - Queen of England. In Newgate Street, in the city of London, stand the meagre ruins of Christ Church. On the same site once stood a royal mausoleum set to rival Westminster Abbey in the fourteenth century. Among the many crowned heads buried there was Isabella of France, Edward II's queen - one of the most notorious femme fatales in history. Today, popular legends speak of how her angry ghost can be glimpsed among the ruins, clutching the heart of her murdered husband, and even the reputable publications of English Heritage maintain that the Queen's maniacal laughter can be heard on stormy nights at Castle Rising in Norfolk. Such stories paint a picture of a tragic, tormented, cruel and evil woman. In literature and poetry, she has fared no better with Christopher Marlowe calling her 'that unnatural Queen, false Isabel'; Thomas Gray appropriating Shakespeare's epithet 'She-Wolf of France' in The Bard (1757); and Kenneth Fowler describing her as ' a woman of evil character, a notorious schemer.' How, then, did Isabella acquire such a reputation? Isabella is known to have lived adulterously with Roger Mortimer for at least four years. But the evidence surrounding accusations of murder and regicide is unsubstantiated. Thus, what has condemned Isabella, in ways which no other queen has had to endure, is her sexual transgression. Had it not been for her unfaithfulness, history may have immortalised her as a liberator - the saviour who unshackled England from a weak and vicious monarch and helped put a strong king - her Lover Mortimer - on the throne. In the first, full-length biography of Isabella, Alison Weir revisits the facts of Isabella's life in a scholarly context in which women's personal lives do not dictate wholly the way we interpret their roles in the public world. A dramatic and startling biography which will change the way we think of Isabella and her world for ever. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR001275829
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. list of illustrations, acknowledgements, author's note, notes on the chief sources, select bibliography, abbreviation used in the notes and references, notes and references, genealogical tables and index. dark blue coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with two inserts, of eight pages each, of both colour and black-and-white photographs / illustrations. Black coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with gilt and blue coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. The biography of Isabella of France, vilified and repudiated through history. Born in 1292  daughter of Philip IV of France, and, sister of three French kings, married at 12 to Edward II  a pawn in international politics. Though she bore four children, she was constantly humiliated by her husband's preference for male favourites. Had she not lived adulterously with Roger Mortimer, first Earl of March, history may have celebrated her as a liberator of England, who removed a weak and vicious monarch. there is on the half title page at the bottom a birthday wish for November 2015, the book is otherwise without damage, and has no further annotations. Full number line. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [11], XII, [5] 2-494 pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Royalty; Britain/UK; Medieval 10th to 15thc; Politics & Government. ISBN: 0224063200. ISBN/EAN: 9780224063203. Inventory No: 0273440. Seller Inventory # 0273440
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