Elizabethan espionage : plotters and spies in the struggle between Catholicism and the crown /
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Author / Creator: | Martin, Patrick H., author. |
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Imprint: | Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016] |
Description: | x, 358 pages ; 26 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10772858 |
Summary: | 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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Physical Description: | x, 358 pages ; 26 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781476662558 147666255X |