| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 345 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, genealogical tables, portraits |
| Contents |
Invitation to a massacre -- "All for one: one for all" -- Dreams of empire -- Chacun à son tour -- Congregations, conspiracies, and coups -- The cardinal's compormise -- Bloodfeud -- Interlude: Princes Margot and the "Negress" -- A wedding and four thousand funerals -- False kings and true Catholics -- The invasion of England -- Revolution -- Counter-revolution -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
The House of Guise was one of the greatest princely families of the sixteenth century, or indeed of any age. Today they are best remembered through the tragic life of one family member, Mary Queen of Scots. But the story of her Guise uncles, aunts, and cousins is if anything more gripping - and certainly of greater significance in the history of Europe. The Guise family rose to prominence as the greatest enemy of the House of Habsburg and had dreams of a great dynastic empire that included the British Isles and southern Italy |
| Notes |
Originally published in hardback in 2009 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-318) and index |
| Subject |
Guise, House of.
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Guise, House of fast |
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Nobility -- France -- Biography
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Nobility -- Political activity -- France -- History -- 16th century
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Power (Social sciences) -- France -- History -- 16th century
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Nobility
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Nobility -- Political activity
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Power (Social sciences)
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France -- History -- Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051298
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Europe -- History -- 1517-1648. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045697
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Europe
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France
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199596799 |
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0199596794 |
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9780191804571 |
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0191804576 |
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