Элеанор Херман — новинки

История отравлений неразрывно связана с представлениями о шикарных дворцах и королевских династиях. Правители на протяжении долгих веков приходили в агонию при одной мысли о яде, их одежду и блюда проверяли сотни слуг, а все ритуалы, даже самые интимные, были нарушены присутствием многочисленных приближенных, охраняющих правящую семью от беспощадного и совсем незаметного оружия расправы.

По иронии судьбы короли и королевы, так тщательно оборонявшиеся от ядов, ежедневно и бессознательно травили себя собственноручно – косметика на основе свинца и ртути, крем для кожи с мышьяком, напитки на основе свинцовых опилок и ртутные клизмы были совершенно привычными спутниками королевских особ.

В своей книге Элеанор Херман сочетает многолетние уникальные изыскания в медицинских архивах и передовые достижения судебно-медицинской экспертизы для того, чтобы рассказать правдивую историю блистательных и роскошных дворцов Европы: антисанитария, убивающая косметика, ядовитые лекарства и вездесущие экскременты.

История отравлений неразрывно связана с представлениями о шикарных дворцах и королевских династиях. Правители на протяжении долгих веков приходили в агонию при одной мысли о яде, их одежду и блюда проверяли сотни слуг, а все ритуалы, даже самые интимные, были нарушены присутствием многочисленных приближенных, охраняющих правящую семью от беспощадного и совсем незаметного оружия расправы. По иронии судьбы короли и королевы, так тщательно оборонявшиеся от ядов, ежедневно и бессознательно травили себя собственноручно — косметика на основе свинца и ртути, крем для кожи с мышьяком, напитки на основе свинцовых опилок и ртутные клизмы были…

The story of poison is the story of power. For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to their food or wine by an enemy. To avoid poison, they depended on tasters, unicorn horns, and antidotes tested on condemned prisoners. Servants licked the royal family’s spoons, tried on their underpants and tested their chamber pots.

Ironically, royals terrified of poison were unknowingly poisoning themselves daily with their cosmetics, medications, and filthy living conditions. Women wore makeup made with mercury and lead. Men rubbed turds on their bald spots. Physicians prescribed mercury enemas, arsenic skin cream, drinks of lead filings, and potions of human fat and skull, fresh from the executioner. The most gorgeous palaces were little better than filthy latrines. Gazing at gorgeous portraits of centuries past, we don’t see what lies beneath the royal robes and the stench of unwashed bodies; the lice feasting on private parts; and worms nesting in the intestines.

InThe Royal Art of Poison, Eleanor Herman combines her unique access to royal archives with cutting-edge forensic discoveries to tell the true story of Europe’s glittering palaces: one of medical bafflement, poisonous cosmetics, ever-present excrement, festering natural illness, and, sometimes, murder.

In Macedon, war rises like smoke, forbidden romance blooms and ancient magic tempered with rage threatens to turn an empire to dust

After winning his first battle, Prince Alexander fights to become the ruler his kingdom demands—but the line between leader and tyrant blurs with each new threat.

Meanwhile, Hephaestion, cast aside by Alexander for killing the wrong man, must conceal the devastating secret of a divine prophecy from Katerina even as the two of them are thrust together on a dangerous mission to Egypt.

The warrior, Jacob, determined to forget his first love, vows to eradicate the ancient Blood Magics and believes that royal prisoner Cynane holds the key to Macedon's undoing.

And in chains, the Persian princess Zofia still longs to find the Spirit Eaters, but first must grapple with the secrets of her handsome—and deadly—captor.

New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Herman entwines the real scandals of history with epic fantasy to reimagine the world's most brilliant ruler, Alexander the Great, in the second book of the Blood of Gods and Royals series.

Imagine a time when the gods turn a blind eye to the agony of men, when the last of the hellions roam the plains and evil stirs beyond the edges of the map. A time when cities burn, and in their ashes, empires rise.

Alexander, Macedonia’s sixteen-year-old heir, is on the brink of discovering his fated role in conquering the known world but finds himself drawn to a newcomer…

Katerina must navigate the dark secrets of court life while hiding her own mission: kill the Queen. But she doesn’t account for her first love…

Jacob will go to unthinkable lengths to win Katerina, even if it means having to compete for her heart with Hephaestion, a murderer sheltered by the prince.

And far across the sea, Zofia, a Persian princess and Alexander’s unmet betrothed, wants to alter her destiny by seeking the famed and deadly Spirit Eaters.

Weaving fantasy with the shocking details of real history, New York Times bestselling author of Sex with Kings Eleanor Herman reimagines the greatest emperor the world has ever known, Alexander the Great, in the first book of the Blood of Gods and Royals series.

Высокое искусство быть любовницей сильных мира сего - одна из самых древних профессий. Всесильных фавориток королей боготворили и ненавидели. Одни искали расположения этих женщин, другие плели против них интриги. Фаворитки были умны, коварны и властолюбивы, нередко диктовали моду, следили за здоровьем детей своего царственного любовника. Знаменитую фаворитку французского короля Генриха Орлеанского Диану де Пуатье запечатлевали на полотнах и олицетворяли с богиней охоты. Самая известная фаворитка маркиза де Помпадур сумела стать символом целой эпохи. Эта книга будет интересна всем любителям истории и любопытных фактов из биографии известных личностей.

In royal courts bristling with testosterone—swashbuckling generals, polished courtiers, and virile cardinals—how did repressed regal ladies find happiness?

Anne Boleyn flirted with courtiers; Catherine Howard slept with one. Henry VIII had both of them beheaded.
Catherine the Great had her idiot husband murdered and ruled the Russian empire with a long list of sexy young favorites.
Marie Antoinette fell in love with the handsome Swedish count Axel Fersen, who tried valiantly to rescue her from the guillotine.
Princess Diana gave up her palace bodyguard to enjoy countless love affairs, which tragically led to her early death.
In this impeccably researched, scandalously readable follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Sex with Kings, Eleanor Herman reveals the truth about what has historically gone on behind the closed door of the queen's boudoir.

Throughout the centuries, royal mistresses have been worshiped, feared, envied, and reviled. They set the fashions, encouraged the arts, and, in some cases, ruled nations. As she did with Sex with the Queen, Eleanor Herman takes readers into the throne rooms and bedrooms of Europe's most powerful monarchs to relate history from the women's point of view. She finds that in most cases, the main function of a royal mistress was not providing the king with sex as much as with companionship.