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King James VI and I - Selected Writings (Hardcover, New Ed)
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King James VI and I - Selected Writings (Hardcover, New Ed)
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'Yet hath it been ever esteemed a matter commendable to collect
[works] together, and incorporate them into one body, that we may
behold at once, what divers Off-springs have proceeded from one
braine.' This observation from the Bishop of Winchester in his
preface to King James's 1616 Workes is particularly appropriate,
since James's writings cross the boundaries of so many different
fields. While several other monarchs engaged in literary
composition, King James VI and I stands out as 'an inveterate
scribbler' and is certainly the most extensively published of all
British rulers. King James VI and I provides a broad representative
selection of King James's writings on a range of secular and
religious topics. Each text is provided in full, creating an
invaluable reference tool for 16th and 17th century scholars
working in different disciplines and a fascinating collection for
students and general readers interested in early modern history and
literature. In contrast to other editions of James's writings,
which have been confined to a single aspect of his work, the
present edition brings together for the first time his poetry and
his religious writing, his political works and his treatises on
witchcraft and tobacco, in a single volume. What makes this
collection of James's writings especially significant is the
distinctiveness of his position as both writer and ruler, an author
of incontestable authority. All his authorly roles, as poet,
polemicist, theologian, political theorist and political orator are
informed by this fact. James's writings were also inevitably
influenced by the circumstances of his reigns and this volume
reflects the turbulent issues of religion, politics and nationhood
that troubled his three kingdoms.
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