James VI and I

Kingship, Government and Religion
Herausgeber: Courtney, Alexander; Questier, Michael

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Produktbeschreibung

James VI & I: Politics, 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032334707
• ISBN-10: 1032334703
• Artikelnr.: 71850184

Autorenporträt

Alexander Courtney is an independent scholar and Assistant Head (Teaching & Learning) at The Perse School, Cambridge, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the author of James VI, Britannic Prince: King of Scots and Elizabeth's Heir, 1566-1603 (2024). Michael Questier is Hon. Chair in the Centre for Catholic Studies, Department of Theology, University of Durham, and the author and editor of several works on early modern political and religious history, including most recently Dynastic Politics and the British Reformations, 1580-1630 (2019) and Catholics and Treason: Martyrology, Memory, and Politics in the Post-Reformation (2022).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. One King, and Many: New Perspectives on James's Personal
Reign in Scotland, c. 1578-c. 1603 2. 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