The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585 1597 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521434850)

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.

Author: Paul E. J. Hammer
ISBN-10: 0521434858
ISBN-13: 9780521434850
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/24/1999
Pages: 468
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.92lbs
Size: 8.64h x 5.90w x 1.32d