Francis Bacon : : The Temper of a Man /

Francis Bacon : : The Temper of a Man / / Catherine Drinker Bowen.

The portrait Bowen paints of this controversial man, Francis Bacon (1561-1626), balances the outward life and actions of Bacon with the seemingly contradictory aspects of his refined philosophical reflections. As Lord Chancellor of England, Bacon was impeached by Parliament for taking bribes in offi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
VerfasserIn:
Drinker Bowen, Catherine,
MitwirkendeR:
Balestra, Dominic J.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021]
©1993
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (245 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION. Dueling Ambitions
  • PROLOGUE. Lord Bacon's Reputation
  • I. An Elizabethan Eden 1561-1579
  • II. The Struggle to Rise 1579-1613
  • 1. Two Conflicting Ambitions
  • 2. Bacon and Essex
  • 3. Bacon Begins to Write
  • 4. The Ambition of the Understanding
  • 5. The Ambition of the Will
  • III. Bacon Ascending. A Time of Glory 1613-1620
  • 1. Lord Coke's Defeat
  • 2. Lord Chancellor
  • IV. Impeachment 1621
  • V. A Noble Five Years 1621-1626
  • A Noble Five Years
  • Author's Note
  • Index

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