Ebook {Epub PDF} Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart by John Guy

 · In Mary Queen of Scots, John Guy creates an intimate and absorbing portrait of one of history’s most famous women, depicting her world and her place in the sweep of history with stunning immediacy. Bringing together all surviving documents and uncovering a trove of new sources for the first time, Guy dispels the popular image of Mary Stuart as a romantic leading lady—achieving her ends Edition description: Movie Tie-In Edition. Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart (Book Review) To create this thoroughgoing biography of Mary Stuart, historian John Guy examined primary sources in the archives of France, England and Scotland, reading them in the original Renaissance English, French and bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 3 mins. Queen of Scots: the true life of Mary Stuart by Guy, J. A. (John Alexander) Publication date Topics Mary, Queen of Scots, , Maria (Schottland, Königin, ), Queens Publisher Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; chinaUser Interaction Count:

John Guy is an award-winning historian of Tudor England. A Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, he is the author of Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart, a major international bestseller that won the Whitbread Award and the Marsh Biography Award and was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. This is a highly readable, balanced and nuanced account of the life of a controversial figure. John Guy describes Mary Queen of Scots as he finds her: not among the countless pro- and anti-Mary propaganda tracts that have piled up over the centuries, but in the archives and primary sources, some of them not reviewed for many years and some not discovered until Guy came along. Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart by John Guy starting at $ Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart has 2 available editions to buy at Half Price Books Marketplace.

Queen of Scots: the true life of Mary Stuart Item Preview Queen of Scots: the true life of Mary Stuart by Guy, J. A. (John Alexander) Publication date Topics. Bringing together all surviving documents and uncovering a trove of new sources for the first time, Guy dispels the popular image of Mary Queen of Scots as a romantic leading lady achieving her. Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart (Book Review) To create this thoroughgoing biography of Mary Stuart, historian John Guy examined primary sources in the archives of France, England and Scotland, reading them in the original Renaissance English, French and Scottish.