About this Event
This lecture series will look at Francis Bacon's (1561-1626) positions within English and, then, British foreign policy from the 1590s to the 1620s considering Bacon's parliamentary speeches, governmental briefs, diplomatic correspondence, statements in judicial pleadings and court judgments, as well as observations on matters of foreign policy in Bacon's philosophical works, dialogues, essays, apophthegms, psalms, and civil and natural histories on matters of treaties, alliances, embassies, espionage and considerations of war and peace.
Event Venue
Ship Street Centre, Jesus College, Oxford, United Kingdom












