The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585 1597

By Paul E.J. Hammer

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521434858
• ISBN13: 9780521434850
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.6"