James VI and I: Collected Essays by Jenny Wormald
The renowned historian Jenny Wormald was a ground-breaking expert on early modern Scottish history, especially Stewart kingship, noble power and wider society. She was most controversial in her book-length critique of Mary, Queen of Scots. Unfortunately, Jenny never got round to producing a similar monograph on a monarch she was infinitely more fond of, King James VI and I, before her untimely death in 2015.

In the absence of such a book, this volume brings together all the major essays by Jenny on James. She wrote on almost every aspect and every major event of James' reign, from the famous Gunpowder Plot, the Plantation of Ulster, the Gowrie Conspiracy, to the witchcraft panics, as well as James' extensive writings. She wrote extensively on James' Scottish rule, but she was also keenly interested in James as the first king of all of Britain, and many of her essays unpick the issues surrounding the Union of the Crowns and James' rule over all three of his kingdoms.

This book is an invaluable resource for any scholar on this crucial time in the history of the British Isles.
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James VI and I: Collected Essays by Jenny Wormald
The renowned historian Jenny Wormald was a ground-breaking expert on early modern Scottish history, especially Stewart kingship, noble power and wider society. She was most controversial in her book-length critique of Mary, Queen of Scots. Unfortunately, Jenny never got round to producing a similar monograph on a monarch she was infinitely more fond of, King James VI and I, before her untimely death in 2015.

In the absence of such a book, this volume brings together all the major essays by Jenny on James. She wrote on almost every aspect and every major event of James' reign, from the famous Gunpowder Plot, the Plantation of Ulster, the Gowrie Conspiracy, to the witchcraft panics, as well as James' extensive writings. She wrote extensively on James' Scottish rule, but she was also keenly interested in James as the first king of all of Britain, and many of her essays unpick the issues surrounding the Union of the Crowns and James' rule over all three of his kingdoms.

This book is an invaluable resource for any scholar on this crucial time in the history of the British Isles.
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James VI and I: Collected Essays by Jenny Wormald

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James VI and I: Collected Essays by Jenny Wormald

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The renowned historian Jenny Wormald was a ground-breaking expert on early modern Scottish history, especially Stewart kingship, noble power and wider society. She was most controversial in her book-length critique of Mary, Queen of Scots. Unfortunately, Jenny never got round to producing a similar monograph on a monarch she was infinitely more fond of, King James VI and I, before her untimely death in 2015.

In the absence of such a book, this volume brings together all the major essays by Jenny on James. She wrote on almost every aspect and every major event of James' reign, from the famous Gunpowder Plot, the Plantation of Ulster, the Gowrie Conspiracy, to the witchcraft panics, as well as James' extensive writings. She wrote extensively on James' Scottish rule, but she was also keenly interested in James as the first king of all of Britain, and many of her essays unpick the issues surrounding the Union of the Crowns and James' rule over all three of his kingdoms.

This book is an invaluable resource for any scholar on this crucial time in the history of the British Isles.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781910900253
Publisher: Birlinn, Limited
Publication date: 01/04/2022
Pages: 368
Product dimensions: 6.70(w) x 9.45(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jenny Wormald was one of the most influential Scottish historians of her generation. She taught history at Glasgow University for 20 years, and was then appointed to a fellowship in Modern History at St Hilda's College, Oxford, for a further 20 years. After retirement to Edinburgh she became an Honorary Fellow in Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. She wrote a number of significant books and articles, including Court, Kirk and Community: Scotland 1470-1625 (1981), 'James VI and I: Two Kings or One?' (1983) and 'Gunpowder, Treason and Scots' (1985).

Table of Contents

List of Plates vii

Foreword Diarmaid MacCulloch ix

Acknowledgements xv

Abbreviations xix

Introduction Miles Kerr-Peterson 1

Part 1 James's Biography and Historiography 7

1 James VI and I (1566-1625), King of Scotland, England and Ireland 9

2 James VI and I: Two Kings or One? 75

Part 2 James's Rule of Scotland before the Union of the Crowns 105

3 Scottish Politics 1567-1625 107

4 James VI: New Men for Old? 129

5 Ecclesiastical Vitriol: The Kirk, the Puritans and the Future King of England 131

6 The Gowrie Conspiracy: Do We Need to Wait until the Day of Judgement? 153

Part 3 James the Writer and Philosopher 169

7 James VI of Scotland, I of England: Literary Biography 171

8 James VI and I, Basilikon Down and The Trew Law of Free Monarchies: The Scottish context and the English Translation 194

9 The Witches, the Devil and the King 219

Part 4 Making of the Union of the Crowns in 1603 239

10 'A Union of Hearts and Minds?' The Making of the Union between Scotland and England, 1603 241

11 Royal Dunfermline to Royal Whitehall: The Stresses of Moving House 158

Part 5 James's Rule of Scotland after the Union of the Crowns 267

12 No Bishop, No King: The Scottish Jacobean Episcopate, 1600-1625 269

13 The Happier Marriage Partner: The Impact of the Union of the Crowns on Scotland 278

14 The Headaches of Monarchy: Kingship and the Kirk in the Early Seventeenth Century 297

Part 6 James as Ruler of Three Kingdoms 323

15 Gunpowder, Treason and Scots 325

16 The Union of 1603 353

17 James VI, James I and the Identity of Britain 378

18 O Brave New World? The Union of England and Scotland in 1603 401

19 The 'British' Crown, the Earls and the Plantation of Ulster 429

Epilogue 440

'Tis True I am a Cradle King': The View from the Throne 440

Appendices 457

1 Maurice Lee, 'James VI and the Aristocracy' 457

2 Review of King James and Letters of Homoerotic Desire David M. Bergeron 464

Bibliographical Notes and Further Reading 466

Index 493

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