Courtier, Scholar, and Man of the Sword

Lord Herbert of Cherbury was a flamboyant Stuart courtier, soldier, and diplomat, known for his duelling and extravagance but also for his great intellect. His life and writings offer a unique window into the aristocratic world and culture of the early seventeenth century and the outbreak and impact of the Thirty Years War and British Civil Wars.

Christine Jackson is Emeritus Fellow and Dean of Degrees at Kellogg College, Oxford. She was previously Associate Professor in Early Modern History at Oxford University Department for Continuing Education where she directed and taught undergraduate and postgraduate programmes for twenty-five years. Her research interests and publications have migrated from the early modern economy and society to early modern elites, and over the past decade she has been focussing on the study of the extraordinary life and extensive writings of Lord Herbert of Cherbury.

Introduction
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
1: A Promising Youth
2: Chafing at the Bit
COURTLY ADVENTURES
3: French Leave
4: Courtier and Swordsman
5: Citizen of the World
DIPLOMATIC INTERVENTIONS
6: Changing Times
7: My Lord, the Ambassador
8: The Fickleness of Princes
INTELLECTUAL OCCUPATIONS
9: Intellectual Ambitions and Interests
10: Philosopher and Theologian
11: Royal Historian
12: Musician and Poet
COURT AND COUNTRY
13: Noble Preoccupations
14: 'Treacherous Herbert' or Man of Honour?
Epilogue