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1587 to 1587 with Fotheringhay Castle, England in view: 1 life, 1 place story, and 1 named historical windows to move through.
Place in focus: Fotheringhay Castle, England
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Renaissance
1400 to 1600
Art, learning, and authority concentrated in courts, studios, and city-states.
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13 place stories active in the same years
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Fotheringhay Castle, England · 1587 CE to 1587 CE
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Focused place from the globe: Fotheringhay Castle, England
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Britain and Ireland
1587 · Fotheringhay Castle, England
Fotheringhay turns dynastic rivalry into judicial killing, making a crowned body answer to the survival fears of another crown.
Mary keeps the event human because regime security is forced here through one captive queen walking to her own execution.
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1587 - Fotheringhay Castle
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Captivity, misrepresentation, and royal intelligence under sentence.
Confined at Fotheringhay, a queen who was never allowed to rule writes her account before her cousin's axe falls.
1587 to 1587 across the atlas
1587 - Fotheringhay Castle
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