King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom - 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 King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom write by William Brown Patterson. This book was released on 2014-05-14. King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Paperback edition of a prize-winning account of the reign of King James VI and I.
King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom
King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom - 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 King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom write by W. B. Patterson. This book was released on 2000-09-14. King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
King James VI and I: Political Writings
King James VI and I: Political Writings - 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 King James VI and I: Political Writings write by James I (King of England). This book was released on 1994. King James VI and I: Political Writings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. James VI and I united the crowns of England and Scotland. His books are fundamental sources of the principles which underlay the union. In particular, his Basilikon Doron was a best-seller in England and circulated widely on the Continent. Among the most important and influential British writings of their period, the king's works shed light on the political climate of Shakespeare's England and the intellectual background to the civil wars which afflicted Britain in the mid-seventeenth century. James' political philosophy was a moderated absolutism, with an emphasis on the monarch's duty to rule according to law and the public good. Locke quoted his speech to parliament of 1610 approvingly, and Hobbes likewise praised 'our most wise king'. This edition is the first to draw on all the early texts of James' books, with an introduction setting them in their historical context.
Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560–1633
Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560–1633 - 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 Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560–1633 write by Donna B. Hamilton. This book was released on 2017-03-02. Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560–1633 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this new study, Donna B. Hamilton offers a major revisionist reading of the works of Anthony Munday, one of the most prolific authors of his time, who wrote and translated in many genres, including polemical religious and political tracts, poetry, chivalric romances, history of Britain, history of London, drama, and city entertainments. Long dismissed as a hack who wrote only for money, Munday is here restored to his rightful position as an historical figure at the centre of many important political and cultural events in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. In Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560-1633, Hamilton reinterprets Munday as a writer who began his career writing on behalf of the Catholic cause and subsequently negotiated for several decades the difficult terrain of an ever-changing Catholic-Protestant cultural, religious, and political landscape. She argues that throughout his life and writing career Munday retained his Catholic sensibility and occasionally wrote dangerously on behalf of Catholics. Thus he serves as an excellent case study through which present-day scholars can come to a fuller understanding of how a person living in this turbulent time in English history - eschewing open resistance, exile or martyrdom - managed a long and prolific writing career at the centre of court, theatre, and city activities but in ways that reveal his commitment to Catholic political and religious ideology. Individual chapters in this book cover Munday's early writing, 1577-80; his writing about the trial and execution of Jesuit Edmund Campion; his writing for the stage, 1590-1602; his politically inflected translations of chivalric romance; and his writings for and about the city of London, 1604-33. Hamilton revisits and revalues the narratives told by earlier scholars about hack writers, the anti-theatrical tracts, the role of the Earl of Oxford as patron, the political-religious interests of Munday's plays, the implications of Mu
Naming Thy Name
Naming Thy Name - 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 Naming Thy Name write by Elaine Scarry. This book was released on 2016-11-29. Naming Thy Name available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fascinating case for the identity of Shakespeare’s beautiful young man SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS ARE indisputably the most enigmatic and enduring love poems written in English. They also may be the most often argued-over sequence of love poems in any language. But what is it that continues to elude us? While it is in part the spellbinding incantations, the hide-and-seek of sound and meaning, it is also the mystery of the noble youth to whom Shakespeare makes a promise—the promise that the youth will survive in the breath and speech and minds of all those who read these sonnets. “How can such promises be fulfilled if no name is actually given?” Elaine Scarry asks. This book is the answer. Naming Thy Name lays bare William Shakespeare’s devotion to a beloved whom he not only names but names repeatedly in the microtexture of the sonnets, in their architecture, and in their deep fabric, immortalizing a love affair. By naming his name, Scarry enables us to hear clearly, for the very first time, a lover’s call and the beloved’s response. Here, over the course of many poems, are two poets in conversation, in love, speaking and listening, writing and writing back. In a true work of alchemy, Scarry, one of America’s most innovative and passionate thinkers, brilliantly synthesizes textual analysis, literary criticism, and historiography in pursuit of the haunting call and recall of Shakespeare’s verse and that of his (now at last named) beloved friend.
