Elizabethan Espionage
Plotters and Spies in the Struggle Between Catholicism and the Crown
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ISBN-13:
9781476662558
Veröffentl:
2016
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
25.04.2016
Seiten:
370
Autor:
Patrick H. Martin
Gewicht:
695 g
Format:
254x178x20 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
In the wake of the 1588 destruction of the Spanish Armada, English Catholics launched an ingenious counterespionage effort to undermine the Tudor government's anti-Catholic machinations. This Jesuit-connected network secretly transmitted intelligence to Brussels, Antwerp, Madrid and Rome. Its central figure was William Sterrell, a brilliant Oxford philosopher. Sterrell moved at the highest levels of government, working for the ill-fated Earl of Essex and for the powerful 4th Earl of Worcester, secret sponsor of the Jesuits. This is the story of Sterrell's secret network--undetected for 400 years--brought to life in vivid detail, based on close examination of hundreds of original letters and documents never before transcribed or published.
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