Francis Bacon: The History of a Character AssassinationYale University Press, 1996 M01 1 - 592 páginas Beyond his own country Francis Bacon is remembered as a great man, founder of modern science and philosophy, a just judge and a teacher of kings. In England and America, however, he is seen more as a cruel, corrupt and power-hungry politician. Which appraisal is correct? In this fascinating re-evaluation of one of Britain's most significant figures, Nieves Mathews examines the charges against Bacon and reveals how distorted facts can be recast as historical truths. In 1621 Bacon fell from power as Lord Chancellor, the highest position in the land. Charged with accepting bribes, he was convicted, fined, imprisoned and exiled from the Court. He died five years later, disgraced and deeply in debt. In this illuminating study of the Jacobean administration - a system which depended on corruption at every level - Nieves Mathews shows Bacon to have been among the least tainted of the King's officials, the scapegoat in a political conspiracy aimed at dislodging the royal favourite. The destruction of Bacon's reputation followed Thomas Babington Macaulay's eloquent 'Essay on Bacon', published in 1837. Macaulay's depiction of a cloven-hearted genius, at once the greatest and meanest of mankind, launched a tireless search among Bacon's biographers for evidence of malice and corruption. Now, with the benefit of recent scholarship, Nieves Mathews portrays a man both single-minded and fallible, with qualities and flaws. Her penetrating reappraisal rescues Bacon from a long tradition of abuse and misrepresentation. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 89
Página iv
... hand of W. Hollar ' . The statue has been placed out of easy reach , but anyone willing to take a ladder into St Michael's Church , St Albans , and climb high enough will note that Hollar's engraving is a quite faithful reproduction ...
... hand of W. Hollar ' . The statue has been placed out of easy reach , but anyone willing to take a ladder into St Michael's Church , St Albans , and climb high enough will note that Hollar's engraving is a quite faithful reproduction ...
Página 23
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Página 30
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Página 31
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Página 37
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Contenido
The Peremptory Tides of Reputation That Angel from Paradise 3 The Horrible Old Rascal | 3 |
THE FAITHLESS FOLLOWER | 25 |
Who Abandoned his Patron | 27 |
And Betrayed | 44 |
Essex Hero and Martyr | 60 |
The Servant and the Dreamer | 73 |
THE CORRUPT CHANCELLOR | 89 |
A Tragedy in Three Acts | 91 |
The Venomous Atheist the Traitor and the Coward | 369 |
Englands One Scoundrel | 384 |
The False Persona | 394 |
The Sterile Philosopher | 406 |
89 | 421 |
The Secret of their Success | 429 |
91 | 442 |
99 | 444 |
Principal Members of the Cast | 99 |
A Double Scenario | 110 |
Two Attacks are Mounted and Silently Dropped | 127 |
1 | 158 |
3 | 165 |
7 | 189 |
25 | 195 |
27 | 197 |
44 | 199 |
60 | 203 |
Thirsting for Power | 229 |
Using his Ideas as Counters in the Power Game | 238 |
Hunting for Popularity | 256 |
Cravenly Suing for Power and Complacently Savouring | 266 |
73 | 279 |
With Not a Trace of Pity for Any Human Being | 283 |
The Lukewarm Hater | 295 |
Without Steady Attachments | 304 |
The Meanest of Mankind | 323 |
The TwoSouled Monster | 337 |
The Creeping Snake | 353 |
Appendix | 445 |
11 | 450 |
12 | 451 |
Bacon is Accused of Corruption in the Commons 13 Act II The Lords Join in the Hunt | 476 |
Surrender and Sentence | 480 |
Evaluation of the Trial 16 The Contemporary View of Bacons Fall | 484 |
Abuses of the Times | 487 |
Bacons Essential Justice 18 | 491 |
19 | 492 |
The Aftermath | 493 |
110 | 501 |
127 | 515 |
Bibliography | 561 |
566 | |
570 | |
582 | |
584 | |
585 | |
589 | |
592 | |
Términos y frases comunes
A. L. Rowse Abbott accused admired Apology Aubrey Baconian Ben Jonson Benjamin Farrington biographer Brian Vickers Buckingham Burghley Campbell Carteret Cecil century Chamberlain Chancery chapter cited Coke's Commons confession contemporaries corruption Court Cranfield critics death declared defend Dixon Earl Edward Coke England English Essays Essex favour favourite Francis Bacon Gardiner Gondomar Gray's Inn Henry Henry VII historians History honour House Hurstfield ibid impeachment Instauration James's John judge judgement justice King James King's Lady later letter looked Lord Bacon Lord Chancellor Lord Keeper Lucy Aikin Macaulay Macaulay's Marwil ment mind monopolies nature never noted Novum Organum Paolo Rossi Parliament philosopher political Pope praise Prestwich Ralegh Rawley reform remarked royal servant Shakespeare Somerset Spanish Spedding speech Star Chamber Strachey Thomas thought Toby Matthew torture trial truth Vickers viii writing wrote Zaller