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The Love Affairs of Mary Queen of Scots - A Political History
Andrew Sharp Hume
Publisher: Racehorse Publishing
Summary
This classic political biography of the sixteenth century queen and rival of Elizabeth I examines how her personal life contributed to her downfall. Mary Queen of Scots, also known as Mary Stuart, was one of the most well-known and controversial monarchs of the sixteenth century. She ascended to the throne of Scotland at only six days old and would eventually become ruler of four countries at once—Scotland, England, Ireland, and France. She was intelligent, compassionate, and tolerant, despite the popularity of that time for religious persecution. Yet Mary’s reign was a tumultuous one: she was married three times, was forced to abdicate her throne, and was eventually imprisoned and beheaded by her cousin, Elizabeth I of England. In this classic work of political history, first published in 1903, Martin Hume analyzes Mary Queen of Scots’s fall from power based on her love affairs. Though many previous historians had assumed that her downfall was caused by her lack of virtue, Hume posits that Mary’s ruin was not based on her “goodness or badness as a woman, but from a certain weakness of character.”
Available since: 04/28/2020.
Print length: 458 pages.
