The Royal Stuarts
The Royal Stuarts

Author: Allan Massie

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2011-12-20

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 142995082X

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"Compelling...A masterly feat...A magnificent, sweeping, authoritative, warm yet wry history."--The Wall Street Journal In this fascinating and intimate portrait of the Stuarts, author Allan Massie takes us deep into one of history's bloodiest and most tumultuous reigns. Exploring the family's lineage from the first Stuart king to the last, The Royal Stuarts is a panoramic history of the family that acted as a major player in the Scottish Wars of Independence, the Union of the Crowns, the English Civil War, the Restoration, and more. Drawing on the accounts of historians past and present, novels, and plays, this is the complete story of the Stuart family, documenting their path from the salt marshes of Brittany to the thrones of Scotland and England and eventually to exile. The Royal Stuarts brings to life figures like Mary, Queens of Scots, Charles I, and Bonnie Prince Charlie, uncovering a family of strong affections and fierce rivalries. Told with panache, this is the gripping true story of backstabbing, betrayal, and ambition gone awry.

Dynasty
Dynasty

Author: John Macleod

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2001-04-20

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 9780312272067

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Offers an irreverent take on the royal family that united Great Britain, chronicling the trials and triumphs of a dynasty that oversaw the rise of English Protestantism and the evolution of modern British democracy.

The Stuarts
The Stuarts

Author: John Miller

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2006-08-23

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9781852855451

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John Miller's book explains all there is to know about the Stuarts, their ruling ethos and their legacy. >

Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts
Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts

Author: Vaughan Hart

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-03-11

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 1134876785

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Spanning from the inauguration of James I in 1603 to the execution of Charles I in 1649, the Stuart court saw the emergence of a full expression of Renaissance culture in Britain. Hart examines the influence of magic on Renaissance art and how in its role as an element of royal propaganda, art was used to represent the power of the monarch and reflect his apparent command over the hidden forces of nature. Court artists sought to represent magic as an expression of the Stuart Kings' divine right, and later of their policy of Absolutism, through masques, sermons, heraldry, gardens, architecture and processions. As such, magic of the kind enshrined in Neoplatonic philosophy and the court art which expressed its cosmology, played their part in the complex causes of the Civil War and the destruction of the Stuart image which followed in its wake.

The Stuarts
The Stuarts

Author: Maurice Ashley

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9780520228009

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Each of these lavishly illustrated books serves up a brief and manageable portion of the Fraser-edited and much-touted Lives of the Kings and Queens of England. A set of six jewels for Fraser's crown.

Horrible Histories: Slimy Stuarts (New Edition)
Horrible Histories: Slimy Stuarts (New Edition)

Author: Terry Deary

Publisher: Scholastic UK

Published: 2016-03-03

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 140716189X

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I bet you've never even heard of the Stuarts. They don't sound very terrible, do they? But did you know some slimy Stuarts ate toads, snails and fleas?

An Illustrated Introduction to the Stuarts
An Illustrated Introduction to the Stuarts

Author: Pamela Womack

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2014-09-15

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 1445638002

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One of the first in a new series of short, accessible guides to popular history subjects, the Illustrated Introductions.

The Stuarts' Last Secret
The Stuarts' Last Secret

Author: Peter Pininski

Publisher: John Donald

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 9781862321991

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This work rewrites the final chapter in the history of the last Stuarts. It provides documentary evidence, previously unknown, which uncovers the fate of Prince Charles Edward's three grandchildren - the secret family of his daughter, Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany. Having discovered his private papers, Professor George Sherburn published a biography of Charlotte's son in 1960. But as James Lees-Milne wrote in 1983, nothing is known about the two daughters. Thus in 1996 John MacLeod claimed Charlotte's son was the last of the line by blood. In discovering the lives of the two daughters the author reveals that one had a son whose descendants survive to this day. The book is the untold story of the Stuart bloodline from the Old Pretender and Princess Clementina Sobieska - described by Professor Bruce Lenman as a vast and exciting panorama laid out over a grand sweep of time in a work whose scholarship is deliberately unobtrusive, but very extensive.