Tudors versus Stewarts : the fatal inheritance of Mary, Queen of Scots /
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.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
2014.
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: | First published in Great Britain as: Crown of thistles : the fatal inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots. London, Macmillan, 2013. |
| Physical Description: | xi, 523 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-508) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780312590741 (hardcover) 0312590741 (hardcover) |