The Murder of King James I

The Murder of King James I
ISBN-10
030021782X
ISBN-13
9780300217827
Category
History
Pages
659
Language
English
Published
2015-10-15
Publisher
Yale University Press
Authors
Thomas Cogswell, Alastair Bellany

Description

A year after the death of James I in 1625, a sensational pamphlet accused the Duke of Buckingham of murdering the king. It was an allegation that would haunt English politics for nearly forty years. In this exhaustively researched new book, two leading scholars of the era, Alastair Bellany and Thomas Cogswell, uncover the untold story of how a secret history of courtly poisoning shaped and reflected the political conflicts that would eventually plunge the British Isles into civil war and revolution. Illuminating many hitherto obscure aspects of early modern political culture, this eagerly anticipated work is both a fascinating story of political intrigue and a major exploration of the forces that destroyed the Stuart monarchy.

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