The royal art of poison
Subtitle: filthy palaces, fatal cosmetics, deadly medicine, and murder most foul
By: Eleanor Herman
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781250140869
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Murder victims; Poisoning; Biography; History
Description: Traces the history of poison in centuries of royal courts, from the intentional posionings to the unintentional side effects of commonly used makeup and medications.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-277) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Poison, poison, everywhere. Poison from the banquet table to the royal underpants; title: Unicorn horns and rooster dung : poison detectors and antidotes; title: Dying to be beautiful : dangerous cosmetics; title: Murderous medicine : mercury enemas and rat turd elixirs; title: Putrid palaces : a poisoned environment; title: Part II. The poison chronicles : where rumors of royal poisoning meet scientific analysis. Henry VII of Luxembourg, Holy Roman Emperor, 1275-1313; title: Cangrande della Scala, Italian warlord, 1291-1329; title: Agnes Sorel, mistress of King Charles VII of France, 1422-1450; title: Edward VI, king of England, 1537-1553; title: Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre, 1528-1572; title: Eric XIV, King of Sweden, 1533-1577; title: Ivan IV, the Terrible, Czar of Russia, 1530-1584; his mother, Elena Glinskaya, ca. 1510-1538; and his first wife, Anastasia Romanovna, 1530-1560; title: Grand Duke Francesco de Medici of Tuscany, 1541-1587, and Grand Duchess Bianca Cappello, 1548-1587; title: Gabrielle d'Estrées, mistress of King Henri IV of France, 1573-1599; title: Tycho Brahe, astronomer and imperial mathematician, 1546-1601; title: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, artist to Italy's elite, 1572-1610; title: Henry Stuart, Prince of Wales, 1594-1612; title: Sir Thomas Overbury, royal adviser at the court of James I, 1581-1613; title: Princess Henrietta Stuart of England, Duchesse d'Orléans, 1644-1670; title: Mademoiselle de Fontanges, mistress of Louis XIV of France, 1661-1681, and the affair of the poisons; title: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, imperial court musician, 1756-1791; title: Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France, 1769-1821; title: Part III. Poison in the modern era. Scientific advances in the Victorian age; title: The democratization of poison; title: Modern Medicis : the rebirth of political poison; title: The royal art of living and dying; title: Pick your poison; title: The poison hall of fame.