... Roussolakkos, meaning “red pit,” named for its fine, impermeable building clay, which has a deep ruddy hue. The British School at Athens has carried out three excavation campaigns at Palaikastro. Robert Carr Bosanquet and Richard MacGillivray Dawkins directed the first campaign, which began in 1902 and lasted...

... James merchants impositions Burges John corruption bedchamber Ludovick Stewart second duke of Lennox Sir George Home of Spott earl of Dunbar Sir James Hay Sir John Ramsay Robert Carr Prince Henry’s court Queen Anna’s masques royal progresses Christian IV of Denmark The court in early...

...This chapter focuses mainly on the Robert Carr-Frances Howard relationship, her divorce from the Earl of Essex, and subsequent marriage to Carr in an elaborate wedding on 26 December. This marriage solidified the political power of the Howard family. For the wedding, Thomas Campion wrote the first...

... study, examining it alongside other manuscript poems addressed to one of James’s most powerful courtiers, Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, and exploring the biographical relationship between Donne and Somerset, one of the most misunderstood episodes in Donne’s life. Donne John Drury family Drury Lady...