Lord Henry Howard (1540-1614): an Elizabethan Life

First full biography of the Elizabethan Henry Howard, one of the most influential noblemen of his time, tracing his chequered career and placing him in the context of Renaissance humanism. `A profound and sophisticated understanding of Howard's intellectual universe and literary production'. JONATHAN WOOLFSON Born the second son of the poet Earl of Surrey, Henry Howard was a Cambridge scholar, courtier and crypto-Catholic intriguer of suspicious repute; after falling in and out of favour with El