The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England: News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603 1660 by Alastair Bellany

The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England: News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603 1660

Alastair Bellany

336 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 murder of Sir Thomas Overbury. Insisting that images of the scandalous court had serious political import...

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