Bacon: The History of the Reign of King Henry VII and Selected Works

by Francis Bacon, Brian Vickers

Overview

This 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521586634
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	02/19/1998
Series:	Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	338
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.87(d)

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.

Editorial Reviews

"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

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