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

Author
Porter, Linda, 1947-
Uniform Title
Crown of thistles
Published
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Description
xi, 523 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 25 cm

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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.
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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ISBN
9780312590741 (hardcover)
0312590741 (hardcover)
Note
First published in Great Britain as: Crown of thistles : the fatal inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots. London, Macmillan, 2013.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-508) and index.
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