Francis Bacon: The History of A Character Assasinatio.(Review)

Renaissance Quarterly | December 22, 1998| | Copyright

Nieves Mathews. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996. xiii + 592 pp. $50. ISBN: 0300-06441-1.

At first glance these two books under review look very similar. Both are hefty volumes on well-known early modern English intellectuals and lawyers. On closer inspection, however, they turn out to be entirely different volumes. Whereas Paul Christianson has written a detailed study of John Selden's historical writings and parliamentary career before the English Civil War, Nieves Mathews's book on Selden's older contemporary, Francis Bacon, is more difficult to ...

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