Bacon: The History of the Reign of King Henry VII and Selected Works
Bacon: The History of the Reign of King Henry VII and Selected Works
Brian Vickers, Centre for Renaissance Studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
$48.00
USDThis is a major new student edition of the text described as "the first modern classic of English history." Francis Bacon's insight into human motives, his life-long experience of politics and government, and his remarkable literary skills, render this History of the Reign of King Henry VII a major work of English literature and an important document in the history of political thought. The edition also includes other relevant writings by Bacon, generous editorial footnotes explaining the historical and political issues of the period, and a substantial glossary.
- Major edition of major Renaissance text by senior scholar
- Important literary/Renaissance studies crossover audience
- Important complement to Erasmus and More editions in same series
Reviews & endorsements
"Vickers's edition--crisply introduced, fully annotated, meticulously glossed, and appending Bacon's fragmentary histories of other Tudor monarchs, together with five of the Essays--now becomes the standard one." The New Criterion
"This new edition of Bacon's The History of the Reign of King Henry VII offers the student of history a good introduction to Jacobean English and Tudor history, economics, and politics." Seventeenth-Century News
Product details
February 1998Paperback
9780521586634
338 pages
216 × 138 × 22 mm
0.455kg
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Table of Contents
- Editor's Note
- Introduction
- Principal events in Bacon's Life
- Select bibliography
- The History of the Reign of King Henry VII
- Bacon's fragmentary histories
- Selections from the Essays (1625) including of simulation and dissimulation
- Of seditions and troubles
- Of empire
- Of counsel
- Of the true greatness of kingdoms and estates
- Glossary
- Index.
