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James VI and I: Kingship, Government and Religion brings together early career and established scholars with a range of approaches to the reign. Their original, research-based essays on a series of broad and interconnected topics invite us to consider Jacobean kingship afresh.
King James VI and I (1566-1625) was the first monarch to rule over the three kingdoms of Scotland, England and Ireland. His practice of kingship – which often so skilfully played upon, and navigated between, the contradictory expectations of his contemporaries – provoked lively debate in his day. Four hundred years after James's death, it still does. This book looks again at some of the hottest of the controversies that still define the historiography of the period. With chapters on James's personal reign in Scotland before 1603, his government of Ireland, corruption, peace-making, and the parliamentary and religious politics of his kingship in England, the contributing authors present new archival discoveries, and more familiar materials and problems are reassessed.
This edited collection is a stimulating resource for students and researchers of Stuart monarchy and early modern British and Irish history.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Note on the Text
- Introduction
- 1 One King, and Many: New Perspectives on James’s Personal Reign in Scotland, c. 1578–c. 1603
- 2 To ‘Read a Perfect King Indeed’: James VI’s Printed Writings, c. 1584–1603
- 3 The Jacobean Union Revisited, 1603–1607
- 4 James VI and I: A Corrupt Reign or the Reign of Anti-Corruption?
- 5 Toleration and Ecumenism or Heretic-Burning and a Papal Antichrist?: Another Look at King James VI and I
- 6 Setting Down Roots: Establishing the Society of Jesus in Jacobean England
- 7 Rex Pacificus and the Short Peace, 1598–1625
- 8 Inconsistency Re-Established: James I and Government Policy in Ireland
- 9 Play It Again, Solomon: The Burning of Edward Elton’s Books and the Religious Policy of James I at the End of His Reign
- 10 (The Legacy of) James’s Common Cause, 1624–1625
- Index