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

by Alastair Bellany

Book Overview

This is a detailed 2002 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521035430
• ISBN13: 9780521035439
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"