The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics
Subtitle: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585-1597
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 8, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 467
ISBN-13: 9780521019415
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1000 to c 1500; Politics and government; History - General History; Favorites, Royal; History; Political History; History: World; British Isles; Western Continental Europe; Europe - Great Britain - General; Political; Biography & Autobiography-Political; Essex, Robert Devereux, --Earl of, --1566-160; Essex, Robert Devereux,--Earl of,--1566-1601; History / Great Britain; History-Europe - Great Britain - General; Western Europe - General; 1558-1603; Biography; Great Britain; Nobility
First sentence: Like any aristocrat of the sixteenth century, Robert Devereux was, in a sense, born into politics.