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This book rejects outright the stereotypical image of James VI and I as mindlessly extravagant and integrates crown finance with James's kingship. It offers both a fresh view of crown finance - one of the blackest elements in James's historical reputation - and a reconstruction of how the king who wrote on divine right monarchy operated his kingship in practice. Drawing on both his humanist education, particularly his reading of Xenophon's Cyropaedia, and his kingship in Scotland, James developed a clear, considered agenda for crown finance. He used it consciously to underwrite his novel position as the first king of "Great Britain" and to consolidate the Stuart dynasty outside of Scotland. This study analyses in detail how James fashioned and refashioned political regimes in England to further this agenda between 1603-25. JOHN CRAMSIE is Assistant Professor of British and Irish History at Union College, Schenectady, New York.

Monarchy --- Finance, Public --- History --- To 1500 --- James --- Jacobus --- Great Britain --- Politics and government --- Jakob --- Jacques --- Well affected subject of the kingdome of Scotland, --- C., --- Jacobo

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'James I and the Religious Culture of England' is a study of King James's influence, both direct and indirect, on various aspects of religious life in England during his reign; James emerges as more interested in religious matters than in any other aspect of English culture. It brings together literary, religious and political history to consider such topics as the poetic response to James's accession, prophetic poetry at court, the neo-Latin religious epigram, the politics of conversion, and the biblical iconography of peace-making applied to James; the short devotional lyric, religious narrative, philosophical or theological verse, works of religious satire and controversy, liturgical verse, and sermons are all examined, and relatively unstudied writers such as John Davies of Hereford, Joshua Sylvester, Andrew Melville, Joseph Hall, George Wither. Professor JAMES DOELMAN teaches in the Department of English at McMaster University.

Christian church history --- English literature --- James I [Great Britain] --- Christian literature, English --- History and criticism. --- James --- Influence. --- Religion. --- In literature. --- England --- Religious life and customs. --- Church history --- Jacobus --- Jakob --- Jacques --- Well affected subject of the kingdome of Scotland, --- C., --- Jacobo

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'A profound and sophisticated understanding of Howard's intellectual universe and literary production', JONATHAN WOOLFSON. Born the second son of the poet Earl of Surrey, Henry Howard was a Cambridge scholar, courtier and crypto-Catholic intriguer of suspicious repute; after falling in and out of favour with Elizabeth I, he eventually became the most important adviser to James I. Rather than view him through the prism of Jacobean court and political life, as the sparse previous critical attention has tended to do, this detailed reassessment places him in the context of scholarship on Renaissance humanism and its varied interactions with the different styles of argument and persuasion that Howard used, often to no avail, to improve his position during troubled times. The book will be of huge importance to all those interested in the intellectual, religious or political history of early modern England.

Scholars --- Renaissance --- Political consultants --- Advisors, Political --- Campaign consultants --- Political advisors --- Consultants --- Revival of letters --- Civilization --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Modern --- Humanism --- Middle Ages --- History --- Northampton, Henry Howard, --- James --- Jacobus --- Howard, Henry, --- Literary style. --- Friends and associates. --- Great Britain --- Court and courtiers --- Intellectual life --- Jakob --- Jacques --- Well affected subject of the kingdome of Scotland, --- C., --- Jacobo

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First full-lengthinvestigation of Elizabethan and Jacobean genealogy, showing how it could be manipulated to legitimise - and oppose.

Elizabeth --- Elisabeth --- James --- Great Britain --- Kings and rulers --- Genealogy. --- History --- Jacobus --- Jakob --- Jacques --- Well affected subject of the kingdome of Scotland, --- C., --- Jacobo --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- Cultural Influence. --- Elizabethan Era. --- European Royalty. --- Historical Manipulation. --- Legitimacy. --- Monarchy. --- Royal Genealogy. --- Shakespeare. --- Succession.

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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.

Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648. --- Church history --- Christianity --- Counter-Reformation --- James --- Jacobus --- Great Britain --- Scotland --- History --- Foreign relations --- Christian church history --- James I [Great Britain] --- Church history - 17th century. --- Arts and Humanities --- 28*0 <09> --- 28*0 <09> Oecumenische beweging. Oecumenische actie--Geschiedenis van ... --- Oecumenische beweging. Oecumenische actie--Geschiedenis van ... --- Oecumenische beweging. Oecumenische actie--Geschiedenis van --- Jakob --- Jacques --- Well affected subject of the kingdome of Scotland, --- C., --- Jacobo