Download or read book James I written by John Matusiak and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few kings have been more savagely caricatured or grossly misunderstood than England's first Stuart. Yet, as this new biography demonstrates, the modern tendency to downplay his defects and minimise the long-term consequences of his reign has gone too far. In spite of genuine idealism and flashes of considerable resourcefulness, James I remains a perplexing figure – a uniquely curious ruler, shot through with glaring inconsistencies. His vices and foibles not only undermined his high hopes for healing and renewal after Elizabeth I's troubled last years, but also entrenched political and religious tensions that eventually consumed his successor. A flawed, if well-meaning, foreigner in a rapidly changing and divided kingdom, his passionate commitment to time-honoured principles of government would, ironically, prove his undoing, as England edged unconsciously towards a crossroads and the shadow of the Thirty Years War descended upon Europe.

Download or read book The True Law of Free Monarchies written by James I (King of England) and published by Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Counter blaste to Tobacco written by James I (King of England) and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Political Works of James I written by James I (King of England) and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Life of Mary Queen of Scots By James Grant written by Mary (Queen of Scots) and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Daemonologie written by King James and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-26 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daemonologie-in full Daemonologie, In Forme of a Dialogue, Divided into three Books: By the High and Mighty Prince, James &c.-was written and published in 1597 by King James VI of Scotland (later also James I of England) as a philosophical dissertation on contemporary necromancy and the historical relationships between the various methods of divination used from ancient black magic. This included a study on demonology and the methods demons used to bother troubled men while touching on topics such as werewolves and vampires. It was a political yet theological statement to educate a misinformed populace on the history, practices and implications of sorcery and the reasons for persecuting a witch in a Christian society under the rule of canonical law. This book is believed to be one of the main sources used by William Shakespeare in the production of Macbeth. Shakespeare attributed many quotes and rituals found within the book directly to the Weird Sisters, yet also attributed the Scottish themes and settings referenced from the trials in which King James was involved.

Download or read book Poetical Remains written by James I (King of Scotland) and published by . This book was released on 1783 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cradle King written by Alan Stewart and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the son of Mary Queen of Scots, born into her 'bloody nest', James had the most precarious of childhoods. Even before his birth, his life was threatened: it was rumoured that his father, Henry, had tried to make the pregnant Mary miscarry by forcing her to witness the assassination of her supposed lover, David Riccio. By the time James was one year old, Henry was murdered, possibly with the connivance of Mary; Mary was in exile in England; and James was King of Scotland. By the age of five, he had experienced three different regents as the ancient dynasties of Scotland battled for power and made him a virtual prisoner in Stirling Castle. In fact, James did not set foot outside the confines of Stirling until he was eleven, when he took control of his country. But even with power in his hands, he would never feel safe. For the rest of his life, he would be caught up in bitter struggles between the warring political and religious factions who sought control over his mind and body. Yet James believed passionately in the divine right of kings, as many of his writings testify. He became a seasoned political operator, carefully avoiding controversy, even when his mother Mary was sent to the executioner by Elizabeth I. His caution and politicking won him the English throne on Elizabeth's death in 1603 and he rapidly set about trying to achieve his most ardent ambition: the Union of the two kingdoms. Alan Stewart's impeccably researched new biography makes brilliant use of original sources to bring to life the conversations and the controversies of the Jacobean age. From James's 'inadvised' relationships with a series of favourites and Gentlemen of the Bedchamber to his conflicts with a Parliament which refused to fit its legislation to the Monarch's will, Stewart lucidly untangles the intricacies of James's life. In doing so, he uncovers the extent to which Charles I's downfall was caused by the cracks that appeared in the monarchy during his father's reign.

Download or read book The Life and Death of King James the First of Scotland written by Maitland Club and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life and Death of King James the First of Scotland written by Joseph Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Works of James the First King of Scotland to which is Prefixed a Historical and Critical Dissertation on His Life and Writings Also Some Brief Remarks on the Intimate Connexion of the Scots Language with the Other Northern Dialects And a Dissertation on Scottish Music Etc written by James I (King of Scotland) and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tudor Jacobean Portraits written by Roy Strong and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life of King James the First written by Robert Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom written by W. B. Patterson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-14 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows King James VI and I, king of Scotland and England, in an unaccustomed light. Long regarded as inept, pedantic, and whimsical, James is shown here as an astute and far-sighted statesman whose reign was focused on achieving a permanent union between his two kingdoms and a peaceful and stable community of nations throughout Europe.

Download or read book King James the VI of Scotland the I of England written by Stephen Alexander Coston and published by Konigswort Incorporated. This book was released on 1996 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pivotal one of a kind historical work about the true character of King James VI & I reveals rare & previously ignored documentary evidence recently brought to light & published in this revolutionary volume. Introduction by The Most Noble 10th Duke of Atholl, His Grace George Iain Murray. Coston provides a detailed account of the moral life of the most notable Price of Jacobean Great Britain & thoroughly refutes scandalous charges of His Royal Person. Walk through history & into the realm of 16th Century Great Britain, read rare documents from the King, works he authored, letters to & from contemporaries & love poetry composed to his wife. Coston uncovers the motives behind the would be assassins of the King's person & honor. All the critical, revisionist & pseudo-historian sources attacking the King's person are examined in detail in this unique book. "This work by Stephen Coston, Sr. is well timed to address the false accusations made against this Godly King...Each accusation is documented & discounted from facts not fiction."--Dr. John MacLennan. Order 1-800-659-1478.

Download or read book James III written by Norman Macdougall and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James III is the most enigmatic of the Stewart kings of Scotland. Variously characterised as artistic, peace-loving, morbidly suspicious, treacherous, pious, lecherous and lazy, King James was much criticised by contemporaries and later chroniclers for his failure to do his job in the manner expected of him, and particularly for his reliance on low-born favourites to the exclusion of his 'natural' counsellors, the nobility. Specific complaints included debasement of the coinage, royal hoarding of money, failure to staunch feuds and to enforce criminal justice. Yet James III has also been seen as a major patron of the arts, as Scotland's first Renaissance king, and as the architect of an intelligent and forward-looking foreign policy. In this new study, the author explores all these areas and seeks to explain why King James was challenged by a huge rebellion in 1482, which he narrowly survived, and why he succumbed to a further rising in 1488, which placed his eldest son on the throne as James IV.

Download or read book The Works of James the First King of Scotland written by James I (King of Scotland) and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: