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The politics of court scandal in early modern England

by Alastair Bellany, Alastair James Bellany

2002 312 pages eng

"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. The book rejects earlier approaches to the history of court scandal, assuming neither that scandal inevitably undermined royal…

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