A follower of Archbishop William Laud, Viscount Scudamore was an ambitious politician. This closely researched study examines how he sought power and prestige through his support of the Crown's financial, religious and military policies; it also examines how he manipulated concepts of honor to present himself on various stages. Through the career of one man, Ian Atherton illuminates much recent work on Laudianism, the Personal Rule of Charles I, Caroline foreign policy, royalism and the outbreak of the civil war.
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Atherton's book seeks to reconstruct the life and world of the first viscount. . .The book contains many precious insights and its findings are convincing. Seventeenth-Century News
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Ian Atherton is Lecturer in History at the University of Keele.
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This review is from: Ambition and Failure in Stuart England: The Career of John, 1st Viscount Scudamore (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain) (Hardcover)
This is a fine study of a 17th century provincial magnate who who labored hard to gain recognition and promotion from the Court of Charles I, was given an Irish peerage for his vocal support of the Duke of Buckingham in Parliament, and finally was appointed ambassador to France (1635-9), a position he was little fitted for in view of his dogmatic rigidity and lack of international experience. He also performed disastrously as the leader of the king's party in Herefordshire in the early stages of the Civil War. He was a staunch royalist and a friend and disciple of Archbishop Laud in his religious views, as evidenced by his extant correspondence with him. Scudamore's own notes on and extracts of his readings are apparently lost, and Atherton makes no attempt to describe his theological beliefs in detail. Instead, he carefully describes Scudamore's recorded behavior in religious matters. Atherton deserves credit for considerable research and scrupulous adherence to the factual record.
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