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Elizabethan espionage : plotters and spies in the struggle between Catholicism and the crown
Record details
- ISBN: 1476623597
- ISBN: 9781476623597
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Physical Description:
1 online resource
remote - Publisher: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2016.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The Persons-Campion Jesuit mission of 1580-1581 -- Tainted in blood -- A wolf by the ears -- The MP from Morpeth: gentleman pensioner and assassin -- Persecution of Catholic gentry -- Aboard the ambassador's boat -- Mary Stewart and the theatre of the world -- The Spanish Armada and English Catholics -- The Essex, Phelippes and Bacon intelligence initiative -- In Spanish lands: the Bisley-Moody Plot -- The Parliament of 1593: Sterrell and Marlowe -- Who can protect the queen? A rivalry over assassins -- The General Factor and Arbella Stewart -- Co-opting the Privy Council -- Trustworthy men at the Fountainhead in the Council -- The network at work: tricks of strong imagination -- Charles Paget, meet Monsieur Boulant -- Treaty negotiations and Burgundian jewels -- Essex's dismal tumult -- The war between the priests -- Scenes of a dying queen -- Transitions and treasons, 1603 -- From intelligence to entertainment -- Measure for measure: a sermon to a king -- Cecil's interrogations: Phelippes's lies and Sterrell's equivocations -- A stir in Wales; the Whitsun commotion, 1605 -- The Gunpowder Treason -- Conclusion: the state of the English Counter-Reformation after Gunpowder. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Genre: | History. |
