Alison Weir – Queen Isabella (2005) (64)
General Information
=========
Title: Queen Isabella
Author: Alison Weir
Read By: Lisette Lecat
Copyright: 2005
Genre: Nonfiction
File Information
======
Number of MP3s: 18
Total Duration: 21:52:56
Total MP3 Size: 602.76
Encoded At: CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Mono
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3
Book Description
======
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Isabella of France (1295?û1358) married the bisexual
Edward II of England as a 12-year-old,
lived with him for 17 years, bore him four children, fled to France
in fear of his powerful favorite,
returned with her lover, Roger Mortimer, to lead a rebellion and place
her son on the throne
and eventually saw Mortimer executed as her son asserted his power.
Veteran biographer Weir (Eleanor of Aquitaine, etc.) battles Isabella’s
near-contemporaries and later storytellers
and historians for control of the narrative, successfully rescuing the
queen from writers all too willing to
imagine the worst of a medieval woman who dared pursue power.
Weir makes great use of inventories to recreate Isabella’s activities
and surroundings and, strikingly,
to establish the timing of the queen’s turn against her husband and
her probable ignorance of the plot to kill him.
Weir convincingly argues that the infamous story of Edward II being
murdered with a red-hot iron emerged from propaganda against
Isabella and Mortimer. (Her unlikely assertion that Edward escaped and
lived out his life as a hermit is less believable.)
Weir presents a fascinating rewriting of a controversial life that should
supersede all previous accounts.
Isabella is so intertwined with the greatest figures of her century
and the next that any reader of English history will want this book.
Copyright ⌐ Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
All rights reserved. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable
edition of this title.
From AudioFile
Lisette Lecat’s elegant style portrays a wide array of characters during
the time of Queen Isabella.
Weir paints a sympathetic picture of the notorious queen, best known
for murdering her husband, King Edward II.
This is also a new look at Edward, a weak and corrupt leader more interested
in his homosexual lovers than his family or his nation.
What makes Weir a stand-out historian is the marvelous job she does
putting listeners into a place and time.
Lecat depicts all the pageantry and horror of medieval court life with
an immediacy that might have come directly from today’s headlines.
Download from RapidGator
Code:Copy to clipboard
https://rapidgator.net/file/3e8bc5f54468b5be6e15e6cb205a4fce/g0lax0yij0o9.rar
Download from 1Fichier
Code:Copy to clipboard
https://1fichier.com/?pbyy4dm9v4j1xak1x1yo/g0lax0yij0o9.rar