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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"maff" |
| Date: |
03 Sep 2005 12:08:54 PM |
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OT: Alison Weir |
French mistress
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1560911,00.html
Alison Weir is untroubled by postmodernism or the remoteness of the
late middle ages in her biography of Queen Isabella, says Kathryn
Hughes
Saturday September 3, 2005
The Guardian
Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England
by Alison Weir
512pp, Cape, =A320
Alison Weir is a one-off. To describe her as a popular historian would
be to state a literal truth - her chunky explorations of Britain's
early modern past sell in the kind of multiples that others can only
dream of. Her "brand" is seldom out of the public eye, since she
publishes at a rate which suggests that she must habitually go without
sleep (her hefty Mary Queen of Scots and The Murder of Lord Darnley
came out a bare 30 months ago). Her turf is peopled with sneaky popes,
princesses with serious jewellery, and peasants who are either starving
or revolting or, most likely of all, doing both at the same time. Nor
do postmodern concerns about history's status as a series of fluid and
competing discourses trouble Weir, who commands a master narrative that
trounces any alternative argument that dare raise its puny head above
the parapet.
Alison Weir
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