Authority, authorship and aristocratic identity in seventeenth-century England : : William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, and his political, social and cultural connections / / edited by Peter Edwards and Elspeth Graham.

The lives of William Cavendish, first duke of Newcastle, and his family including, centrally, his second wife, Margaret Cavendish, are intimately bound up with the overarching story of seventeenth-century England: the violently negotiated changes in structures of power that constituted the Civil War...

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Superior document:Rulers & Elites. Comparative Studies in Governance, Volume 9
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Rulers & elites ; Volume 9.
Physical Description:1 online resource (384 pages) :; illustrations (some color), photographs.
Notes:"Papers based on those presented at a conference on the life and career of William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, held at Bolsover Castle in Derbyshire on 14-15 April, 2012"--Acknowledgements.
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