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Queen Elizabeth I - A Lean Life

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  • FormatePub
  • ISBN8232301538
  • EAN9798232301538
  • Date de parution26/09/2025
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  • ÉditeurHamza elmir

Résumé

Elizabeth I: A Lean LifeOn a raw March morning in 1554, a twenty-year-old princess stepped from a barge into the Tower of London. Thirty-four years later, on an August day in 1588, the same woman rode into the mud at Tilbury in a corselet over silk and steadied a nation with a sentence. This book follows the road between those moments-and the quiet rooms where power is really made. Told in clean, scene-driven prose, Elizabeth I: A Lean Life strips away gilt and gossip to show a working monarch at her desk: signing "Stay" in a margin that will spare a life; reading ciphered letters that will end a plot; measuring coins and ships against sermons and theater, poor relief and plague.
You'll walk the grain of the era-through the Settlement that made English worship sound like home, the secret state that opened letters before they opened doors, the Armada summer of fireships and cold math, the stages of Southwark, Ireland's hard winters, and the charter that quietly sent English trade beyond the Cape. No invented dialogue. No footnote clutter. Dates are precise, stakes are human, and scenes close on the breath of real rooms.
If you like history that moves-Hilary-Mantel vivid, Mary-Beard exact, but written for your commute-you'll want to start here. Open to page one. Cross the wharf, ride to Tilbury, and watch a kingdom learn the discipline of calm.
Elizabeth I: A Lean LifeOn a raw March morning in 1554, a twenty-year-old princess stepped from a barge into the Tower of London. Thirty-four years later, on an August day in 1588, the same woman rode into the mud at Tilbury in a corselet over silk and steadied a nation with a sentence. This book follows the road between those moments-and the quiet rooms where power is really made. Told in clean, scene-driven prose, Elizabeth I: A Lean Life strips away gilt and gossip to show a working monarch at her desk: signing "Stay" in a margin that will spare a life; reading ciphered letters that will end a plot; measuring coins and ships against sermons and theater, poor relief and plague.
You'll walk the grain of the era-through the Settlement that made English worship sound like home, the secret state that opened letters before they opened doors, the Armada summer of fireships and cold math, the stages of Southwark, Ireland's hard winters, and the charter that quietly sent English trade beyond the Cape. No invented dialogue. No footnote clutter. Dates are precise, stakes are human, and scenes close on the breath of real rooms.
If you like history that moves-Hilary-Mantel vivid, Mary-Beard exact, but written for your commute-you'll want to start here. Open to page one. Cross the wharf, ride to Tilbury, and watch a kingdom learn the discipline of calm.
Angie: Angela White
Aliado Nepson
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