This is a major new student edition of the text described as "the first modern classic of English history." Francis Bacon's insight into human motives, his life-long experience of politics and government, and his remarkable literary skills, render this History of the Reign of King Henry VII a major work of English literature and an important document in the history of political thought. The edition also includes other relevant writings by Bacon, generous editorial footnotes explaining the historical and political issues of the period, and a substantial glossary.
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"Vickers's edition--crisply introduced, fully annotated, meticulously glossed, and appending Bacon's fragmentary histories of other Tudor monarchs, together with five of the Essays--now becomes the standard one." The New Criterion
"This new edition of Bacon's The History of the Reign of King Henry VII offers the student of history a good introduction to Jacobean English and Tudor history, economics, and politics." Seventeenth-Century News
"This new edition of Bacon's The History of the Reign of King Henry VII offers the student of history a good introduction to Jacobean English and Tudor history, economics, and politics." Seventeenth-Century News
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This is a major new student edition of the text described as 'the first modern classic of English history'. Francis Bacon's penetration into human motives, his life-long experience of politics and government, and his remarkable literary skills, render this History of the Reign of King Henry VII a major work of English literature and an important document in the history of political thought. The edition also includes other relevant writings by Bacon, generous editorial footnotes explaining the historical and political issues of the period, and a substantial glossary.
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After that Richard, the third of that name, king in fact only, but tyrant both in title and regiment, and so commonly termed and reputed in all times since, was by the Divine Revenge, favouring the design of an exiled man, overthrown and slain at Bosworth Field; there succeeded in the kingdom the Earl of Richmond, thenceforth styled Henry the Seventh. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
French King, King of England, Duke of Brittany, King of Castile, King of Scotland, King Richard, Lady Margaret, Richard Duke of York, Earl of Warwick, King Charles, Earl of Lincoln, Lord Chamberlain, Edward Plantagenet, King Edward the Fourth, Lord Lovel, Lady Elizabeth, Lambert Simnel, Perkin Warbeck, Duke of Clarence, Prince Arthur, Archbishop of Canterbury, Duke of Orleans, King of Aragon, Lord Chancellor, Queen Elizabeth New!
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After that Richard, the third of that name, king in fact only, but tyrant both in title and regiment, and so commonly termed and reputed in all times since, was by the Divine Revenge, favouring the design of an exiled man, overthrown and slain at Bosworth Field; there succeeded in the kingdom the Earl of Richmond, thenceforth styled Henry the Seventh. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
French King, King of England, Duke of Brittany, King of Castile, King of Scotland, King Richard, Lady Margaret, Richard Duke of York, Earl of Warwick, King Charles, Earl of Lincoln, Lord Chamberlain, Edward Plantagenet, King Edward the Fourth, Lord Lovel, Lady Elizabeth, Lambert Simnel, Perkin Warbeck, Duke of Clarence, Prince Arthur, Archbishop of Canterbury, Duke of Orleans, King of Aragon, Lord Chancellor, Queen Elizabeth New!
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