Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince

This surprising portrait of the Tudor queen offers an “ambitious re-examination of the intersection of gender and monarchy” ( The  New York Times Book Review ).   Queen Elizabeth I was all too happy to play on courtly conventions of gender when it suited her “‘weak and feeble’ woman’s body” to do so for political gain. But in Elizabeth , historian Lisa Hilton offers ample evidence why those famous words should not be taken at face value. With new research out of France, Italy, Russia,