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.

• Superior document: Rulers & Elites. Comparative Studies in Governance, Volume 9
• TeilnehmendeR: Edwards, Peter; Graham, Elspeth, 1953-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• 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.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• ISSN: 2211-4610
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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 Wars, and the ensuing Commonwealth and Restoration of the monarchy. William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, and his Political, Social and Cultural Connections: Authority, Authorship and Aristocratic Identity in Seventeenth Century England brings together a series of interrelated essays that present William Cavendish, his family, household and connections as an aristocratic, royalist case study, relating the intellectual and political underpinnings and implications of their beliefs, actions and writings to wider cultural currents in England and mainland Europe.