The Earl of Essex was the last great favorite of Elizabeth I and the leading cultural patron of the final years of her reign. Dazzled by the "romantic" relationship with the queen, modern writers have branded Essex a dandy, a military incompetent, and a political dabbler, and have blamed him for the bitter factionalism that plagued English politics in the 1590s. Using an unparalleled range of manuscript and printed sources, this book presents a very different image of Essex and of the outbreak of factionalism in Elizabethan politics.
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"...Hammer's book is compulsive reading - a real page-turner - and will ist well on the shelf of scholar and general reader alike...highly recommended reading." Sixteenth Century Journal
"...richly detailed...This book will be invaluable for specialists studying court politics of the later Elizabethan period..." American Historical Review
"Written with the clarity and good judgment that comes from thorough familiarity with these co,plex material, it at once establishes its author as the leading scholar of late Elizabethan studies. Let us hope that the second volume will emerge as soon as possible, to complete an outstanding feat of historical research and writing." Jrnl of Early Modern history
"All those wanting to know about the earl's career, the character of English court society and politics, or the state of international relations at the end of the sixteenth century will find important new information and insight in it. Readers of this present volume will eagerly await a sequel." Journal of Modern History
"...richly detailed...This book will be invaluable for specialists studying court politics of the later Elizabethan period..." American Historical Review
"Written with the clarity and good judgment that comes from thorough familiarity with these co,plex material, it at once establishes its author as the leading scholar of late Elizabethan studies. Let us hope that the second volume will emerge as soon as possible, to complete an outstanding feat of historical research and writing." Jrnl of Early Modern history
"All those wanting to know about the earl's career, the character of English court society and politics, or the state of international relations at the end of the sixteenth century will find important new information and insight in it. Readers of this present volume will eagerly await a sequel." Journal of Modern History
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The Earl of Essex was the last great favourite of Elizabeth I and the leading cultural patron of the final years of her reign. Dazzled by the 'romantic' relationship with the queen, modern writers have branded Essex a dandy, a military incompetent, and a political dabbler, and have blamed him for the bitter factionalism which plagued English politics in the 1590s. Using an unparalleled range of manuscript and printed sources, this book presents a very different image of Essex and of the outbreak of faction in Elizabethan politics.
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Like any aristocrat of the sixteenth century, Robert Devereux was, in a sense, born into politics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
true relacion, conciliar colleagues, old lord treasurer, martial aspirations, pocket dial, disbursement books, martial honour, late stepfather, leading councillors, lord admiral, earl marshal, late earle, quest for greatness, seventeenth earl, other councillors, royal anger, military patronage, young favourite, confidential instructions, ordnance office Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Anthony Bacon, Francis Bacon, Low Countries, Queen Elizabeth, Earl Walter, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Robert Cecil, Accession Day, New York, Sir Roger Williams, Antonio Perez, Lord Cobham, Robert Devereux, Henry Wotton, Sir Robert Sidney, Edward Reynoldes, Sir John Norris, Anthony Standen, Robert Dudley, Essex House, Sir Henry Unton, Walter Devereux, Cinque Ports, Fulke Greville, Lord Henry Howard New!
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true relacion, conciliar colleagues, old lord treasurer, martial aspirations, pocket dial, disbursement books, martial honour, late stepfather, leading councillors, lord admiral, earl marshal, late earle, quest for greatness, seventeenth earl, other councillors, royal anger, military patronage, young favourite, confidential instructions, ordnance office Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Anthony Bacon, Francis Bacon, Low Countries, Queen Elizabeth, Earl Walter, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Robert Cecil, Accession Day, New York, Sir Roger Williams, Antonio Perez, Lord Cobham, Robert Devereux, Henry Wotton, Sir Robert Sidney, Edward Reynoldes, Sir John Norris, Anthony Standen, Robert Dudley, Essex House, Sir Henry Unton, Walter Devereux, Cinque Ports, Fulke Greville, Lord Henry Howard New!
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- The Return of the Armadas: The Last Years of the Elizabethan War Against Spain, 1595-1603 by R. B. Wernham on 6 pages
- The works of Francis Bacon (Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon - 14 Volumes) by Francis Bacon on 4 pages
- Sir Francis Drake by Julian Stafford, Sir Corbett on page 74, and page 231
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- Literature, Satire and the Early Stuart State by Andrew McRae in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Myth of Elizabeth by Susan Doran on page 75, and page 220
- Elizabethan Rhetoric: Theory and Practice (Ideas in Context) by Peter Mack on page 209, and Back Matter
- Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance by David Norbrook on page 115, and Back Matter
- Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature by Jessica Wolfe in Back Matter
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