Bibliograph

Tudors versus Stewarts, the fatal inheritance of Mary, Queen of Scots, Linda Porter

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Tudors versus Stewarts, the fatal inheritance of Mary, Queen of Scots, Linda Porter

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-508) and index

Illustrations

platesgenealogical tablesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Tudors versus Stewarts

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

857982332

Responsibility statement

Linda Porter

Sub title

the fatal inheritance of Mary, Queen of Scots

Summary

Evaluates the rivalry between the fertile Stewarts and barren Tudors as critical to the sixteenth-century British Isles, tracing three generations of feuding that led to the violent competition for the throne between Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots

Table Of Contents

Part 1: Ill-gotten thrones, 1485-1488. 'This pretty lad' ; The Field of Stirling -- Part 2: The road to Flodden Field, 1488-1513. Uneasy crowns ; The impostor ; A summer wedding ; Brothers in arms -- Part 3: Half a Tudor, 1513-1542. Queen and country ; The young King ; Uncle and nephew ; Solway Moss -- Part 4: 'The most perfect child', 1542-1568. 'Rough wooings' and Reformation ; Daughter of France ; The return of the Queen ; Downfall

Target audience

adult

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