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Treason In Tudor England: Politics and Paranoia

By Smith , Lacey Baldwin

Book information

Publisher
Random House
Year
2011
Language
english
Format
EPUB
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539 kB (551555 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00

Description

Overview: Tudor England abounded with traitors great and small, whose ill-timed, self-defeating and irrational antics guaranteed their failure. Yet from the inept and calamitous intrigues of 'Sweet-Lips' Gregory Botolf in 1540 and Lord Admiral Thomas Seymour during the reign of Edward VI, to the bungling efforts at a palace coup by Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, during the final years of Elizabeth's reign, treason didn't prosper. Modern historians tend to dismiss the wave of political disasters as the works of men of unsound mind. Here, Lacey Baldwin Smith re-evaluates this mania for conspiracy in the light of psychological and social impulses peculiar to the age.

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