Alastair Bellany

The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England

News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603 1660

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This is the first detailed study of the political significance of the seventeenth century's most notorious and sensational court scandal - the Overbury murder. The book challenges earlier approaches to the history of court scandal, rejecting both the assumption that it inevitably undermined royal authority and the tendency to dismiss scandal as politically insignificant. The book adopts a multi-layered, interdisciplinary approach to the Overbury affair and its complex political meanings. It explores the factional politics that made and destroyed Overbury and his murderers, reconstructs the news culture through which information about the scan… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-521-03543-9
EAN: 9780521035439
Produktnummer: 2712801
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Seitenangabe: 336 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.9 cm 517 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 517

Über den Autor

English-born Alastair Bellany was educated at Oxford and at Princeton, NJ. He was a lecturer at Stanford University, 1995-96, and is the author of several articles in both journals and edited books. The Politics of Court Scandal is his first book.