Nolanus Nullanus
Charles Nicholl, 12 March 1992
Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair
by John Bossy.
Yale, 294 pp., £16.95, September 1991,0 300 04993 5 Show More
by John Bossy.
Yale, 294 pp., £16.95, September 1991,
The Elizabethan Secret Service
by Alison Plowden.
Harvester Wheatsheaf, 158 pp., £30, September 1991,0 7108 1152 7 Show More
by Alison Plowden.
Harvester Wheatsheaf, 158 pp., £30, September 1991,
The Lord of Uraniborg: A Biography of Tycho Brahe
by Victor Thoren.
Cambridge, 523 pp., £40, May 1991,0 521 35158 8 Show More
by Victor Thoren.
Cambridge, 523 pp., £40, May 1991,
“... they could tell you about other people. If Bossy’s study is a triumph of close historical focus, Alison Plowden’s The Elizabethan Secret Service is an achievement in the opposite direction. She covers the history of the service over a period of about thirty-five years, touching on covert operations in Scotland, France, Spain and the Low Countries, as ... ”
