TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carroll,Stuart
TI  - Martyrs and murderers: the Guise family and the making of Europe 
SN  - 9780191804571 (ebook) :
AV  - DC36.8.G84 C37 2011
U1  - 944.0290922 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Guise, House of.
KW  - Nobility
KW  - France
KW  - Biography
KW  - Political activity
KW  - History
KW  - Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598
N1  - Originally published: 2009; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - The House of Guise was one of the greatest princely families of the sixteenth century, or indeed of any age. Today they are best remembered through the tragic life of one family member, Mary Queen of Scots. But the story of her Guise uncles, aunts, and cousins is if anything more gripping - and certainly of greater significance in the history of Europe. The Guise family rose to prominence as the greatest enemy of the House of Habsburg and had dreams of a great dynastic empire that included the British Isles and southern Italy
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199596799.001.0001
ER  -