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James VI & I: Kingship, 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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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).
Summary
James VI & I: Kingship, 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.
