The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life Of The Duke Of Buckingham by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

With a novelist’s touch, Lucy Hughes-Hallett transports us into a courtly world of masques and dancing, exquisite clothes, the art of Rubens and van Dyck, gender-fluidity, same-sex desire and appallingly rudimentary medicine. Witch hunts coexisted with Francis Bacon’s empiricism and public opinion was becoming a political force. Falling from grace spectacularly, Buckingham came to represent everything that was wrong with the country. From kidnappings and murder plots to men weeping in Parliament over civil liberties, The Scapegoat navigates love, war-fever and pacifism in a society on the brink of cataclysmic change. This 2024 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Paperback is in near mint condition. Heavy. Unread copy.

ISBN: 9780008126575 SKU: 1580812 This image is of the actual book.

SKU: 1580812
Location: History