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Queen Victoria by Michael Ledger-Lomas, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Michael Ledger-Lomas

Current price: $48.50
Queen Victoria by Michael Ledger-Lomas, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Queen Victoria by Michael Ledger-Lomas, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Queen Victoria by Michael Ledger-Lomas, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Michael Ledger-Lomas

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Size: 25.4 x 198 x 600

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This biography evokes the pervasive importance of religion to Queen Victoria's life but also that life's centrality to the religion of Victorians around the globe. The first comprehensive exploration of Victoria's religiosity, it shows how moments in her life - from her accession to hermarriage and her successive bereavements - enlarged how she defined and lived her faith. It portrays a woman who had simple convictions but a complex identity that suited her multinational Kingdom: a determined Anglican who preferred Presbyterian Scotland; an ardent Protestant who revered herhusband's Lutheran homeland but became sympathetic towards Roman Catholicism and Islam; a moralizing believer in the religion of the home who scorned Sabbatarianism. Drawing on a systematic reading of her journals and a rich selection of manuscripts from British and German archives, Michael Ledger-Lomas sheds new light not just on Victoria's private beliefs but also on her activity as a monarch, who wielded her powers energetically in questions of church andstate. Unlike a conventional biography, this book interweaves its account of Victoria's life with a panoramic survey of what religious communities made of it. It shows how different churches and world religions expressed an emotional identification with their Queen and Empress, turning her into anembodiment of their different and often rival conceptions of what her Empire ought to be. The result is a fresh vision of a familiar life, which also explains why monarchy and religion remained close allies in the nineteenth-century British world. | Queen Victoria by Michael Ledger-Lomas, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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