Bloody Mary
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Behind the notorious epithet lies a woman of extraordinary complexity — and Carolly Erickson's Bloody Mary presents the definitive biographical portrait of Mary I of England, the first queen regnant of a kingdom that had never imagined a woman on its throne. Born to the imperious Henry VIII and his discarded Spanish queen, Catherine of Aragon, Mary's life was a crucible of dynastic upheaval, religious war, and personal anguish. Erickson chronicles her subject's tortured journey from beloved princess to disinherited bastard, and ultimately to crowned sovereign — a woman whose fierce Catholic convictions would ignite the flames that burned nearly three hundred Protestant martyrs and forever brand her name in the public imagination. Erickson writes with the narrative drive of a novelist and the scholarly rigour of a historian, drawing on a wealth of primary sources to reconstruct the vivid texture of Tudor court life. Bloody Mary argues powerfully against the caricature of a fanatical tyrant, instead illuminating a deeply human figure shaped by decades of rejection, loss, and an unshakeable sense of divine mission. The result is a biography that not only rehabilitates one of history's most maligned monarchs but raises unsettling questions about how power, gender, and faith conspire to forge — and destroy — a legacy.
Author: Carolly Erickson
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Behind the notorious epithet lies a woman of extraordinary complexity — and Carolly Erickson's Bloody Mary presents the definitive biographical portrait of Mary I of England, the first queen regnant of a kingdom that had never imagined a woman on its throne. Born to the imperious Henry VIII and his discarded Spanish queen, Catherine of Aragon, Mary's life was a crucible of dynastic upheaval, religious war, and personal anguish. Erickson chronicles her subject's tortured journey from beloved princess to disinherited bastard, and ultimately to crowned sovereign — a woman whose fierce Catholic convictions would ignite the flames that burned nearly three hundred Protestant martyrs and forever brand her name in the public imagination. Erickson writes with the narrative drive of a novelist and the scholarly rigour of a historian, drawing on a wealth of primary sources to reconstruct the vivid texture of Tudor court life. Bloody Mary argues powerfully against the caricature of a fanatical tyrant, instead illuminating a deeply human figure shaped by decades of rejection, loss, and an unshakeable sense of divine mission. The result is a biography that not only rehabilitates one of history's most maligned monarchs but raises unsettling questions about how power, gender, and faith conspire to forge — and destroy — a legacy.