James VI and Noble Power in Scotland 1578-1603 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook James VI and Noble Power in Scotland 1578-1603 write by Miles Kerr-Peterson. This book was released on 2016-12-19. James VI and Noble Power in Scotland 1578-1603 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. James VI and Noble Power in Scotland explores how Scotland was governed in the late sixteenth century by examining the dynamic between King James and his nobles from the end of his formal minority in 1578 until his accession to the English throne in 1603. The collection assesses James’ relationship with his nobility, detailing how he interacted with them, and how they fought, co-operated with and understood each other. It includes case studies from across Scotland from the Highlands to the Borders and burghs, and on major individual events such as the famous Gowrie conspiracy. Themes such as the nature of government in Scotland and religion as a shaper of policy and faction are addressed, as well as broader perspectives on the British and European nobility, bloodfeuds, and state-building in the early modern period. The ten chapters together challenge well-established notions that James aimed to be a modern, centralising monarch seeking to curb the traditional structures of power, and that the period represented a period of crisis for the traditional and unrestrained culture of feuding nobility. It is demonstrated that King James was a competent and successful manager of his kingdom who demanded a new level of obedience as a ‘universal king’. This volume offers students of Stuart Britain a fresh and valuable perspective on James and his reign.
James VI, Britannic Prince
James VI, Britannic Prince - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook James VI, Britannic Prince write by Alexander Courtney. This book was released on 2024-06-03. James VI, Britannic Prince available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By drawing upon recent scholarship, original manuscript materials, and previously unpublished sources, this new biography presents an analytical narrative of King James VI & I’s life from his birth in 1566 to his accession to the throne of England and Ireland in 1603. The only son of Mary Stuart and heir (apparent but not uncontested) to Elizabeth I, James VI of Scotland was, from the moment of his birth, a focal point of countervailing hopes and fears for the confessional and dynastic future of the kingdoms of the British Isles. This study examines material from across the UK and beyond, as well as the newly deciphered letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, to reveal James as a highly capable, resourceful, deeply provocative and ruthless political actor. Analysis of James’s own writings is integrated within the narrative, providing fresh insights into the king’s inventive tactical engagement in the politics of publicity. Through a chronological approach, the events of his life are linked to wider issues associated with the early modern court, government, religion, and political and ideological conflict. James VI, Britannic Prince is of interest to all scholars of Scottish and British history in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
Political Culture, the State, and the Problem of Religious War in Britain and Ireland, 1578-1625
Political Culture, the State, and the Problem of Religious War in Britain and Ireland, 1578-1625 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Culture, the State, and the Problem of Religious War in Britain and Ireland, 1578-1625 write by R. Malcolm Smuts. This book was released on 2023-02-23. Political Culture, the State, and the Problem of Religious War in Britain and Ireland, 1578-1625 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the period between 1575 and 1625, civic peace in England, Scotland, and Ireland was persistently threatened by various kinds of religiously inspired violence, involving conspiracies, rebellions, and foreign invasions. Religious divisions divided local communities in all three kingdoms, but they also impacted relations between the nations, and in the broader European continent. The challenges posed by actual or potential religious violence gave rise to complex responses, including efforts to impose religious uniformity through preaching campaigns and regulation of national churches; an expanded use of the press as a medium of religious and political propaganda; improved government surveillance; the selective incarceration of English, Scottish, and Irish Catholics; and a variety of diplomatic and military initiatives, undertaken not only by royal governments but also by private individuals. The result was the development of more robust and resilient, although still vulnerable, states in all three kingdoms and, after the dynastic union of Britain in 1603, an effort to create a single state incorporating all of them. R. Malcolm Smuts traces the story of how this happened by moving beyond frameworks of national and institutional history, to understand the ebb and flow of events and processes of religious and political change across frontiers. The study pays close attention to interactions between the political, cultural, intellectual, ecclesiastical, military, and diplomatic dimensions of its subject. A final chapter explores how and why provisional solutions to the problem of violent, religiously inflected conflict collapsed in the reign of Charles I.
The Early Life of James VI
The Early Life of James VI - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Early Life of James VI write by Steven J. Reid. This book was released on 2023-03-09. The Early Life of James VI available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. James VI and I was arguably the most successful ruler of the Stewart Dynasty in Scotland, and the first king of a united Great Britain. His ableness as a monarch, it has been argued, stemmed largely from his Scottish upbringing. This book is the first in-depth scholarly study of those formative years. It tries to understand exactly when in James' 'long apprenticeship' he seized political power and retraces the incremental steps he took along the way. It also poses new answers to key questions about this process. What relationship did he have with his mother Mary Queen of Scots? Why did he favour his kinsman Esmé Stuart, ultimately Duke of Lennox, to such an extent that it endangered his own throne? And was there a discernible pattern of intent to the alliances he made with the various factions at court between 1578 and 1585? This book also analyses James' early reign as an important case study of the impact of the Reformation on the monarchy of early modern Europe, and examines the cultural activity at James' early court.
The Hawthornden Manuscripts of William Fowler and the Jacobean Court 1603–1612
The Hawthornden Manuscripts of William Fowler and the Jacobean Court 1603–1612 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hawthornden Manuscripts of William Fowler and the Jacobean Court 1603–1612 write by Allison L. Steenson. This book was released on 2020-09-07. The Hawthornden Manuscripts of William Fowler and the Jacobean Court 1603–1612 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the unedited material contained in the Hawthornden manuscripts of William Fowler, a Scottish poet attached to the court of Queen Anna of Denmark between 1590 and 1612. The material is representative of Fowler’s ephemeral and occasional production, largely unknown to modern scholars. Through the lenses of the Hawthornden fragments, this book engages in the exploration of one of the "cultural places of the European Renaissance", represented by the extensive use of emblems and other literary devices, and by the use of manuscript copies to circulate them. The discourse mainly focuses on the Jacobean courtly establishment in the first decade of the seventeenth century, from the point of view of a Scottish insider. By focusing on the intellectual makeup of the court in the newly united Great Britain, this work aims at bridging manuscript scholarship and literary studies with a wider perspective on contemporary society, politics and culture.
