The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England. News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603-1660.(Book Review)

Canadian Journal of History | August 1, 2003| | Copyright

by Alastair Bellany. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvii, 312 pp. $70.00 US (cloth).

This book will ensure that court scandal is never more regarded as merely colour with which to supplement a history of elite mores. Bellany provides a stunning analysis of the well-known Overbury affair, the 1613 poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury by those associated with his master--and the king's favourite--Sir Robert Carr (Earl of Somerset) and his betrothed, Frances Howard. Though familiar, the affair has never ...

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