Author: Henry J. EllisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Original Letters Illustrative of English History, 3
Author: Henry J. EllisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The Cradle King
Author: Alan StewartPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448104572
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
As the son of Mary Queen of Scots, born into her 'bloody nest', James had the most precarious of childhoods. Even before his birth, his life was threatened: it was rumoured that his father, Henry, had tried to make the pregnant Mary miscarry by forcing her to witness the assassination of her supposed lover, David Riccio. By the time James was one year old, Henry was murdered, possibly with the connivance of Mary; Mary was in exile in England; and James was King of Scotland. By the age of five, he had experienced three different regents as the ancient dynasties of Scotland battled for power and made him a virtual prisoner in Stirling Castle. In fact, James did not set foot outside the confines of Stirling until he was eleven, when he took control of his country. But even with power in his hands, he would never feel safe. For the rest of his life, he would be caught up in bitter struggles between the warring political and religious factions who sought control over his mind and body. Yet James believed passionately in the divine right of kings, as many of his writings testify. He became a seasoned political operator, carefully avoiding controversy, even when his mother Mary was sent to the executioner by Elizabeth I. His caution and politicking won him the English throne on Elizabeth's death in 1603 and he rapidly set about trying to achieve his most ardent ambition: the Union of the two kingdoms. Alan Stewart's impeccably researched new biography makes brilliant use of original sources to bring to life the conversations and the controversies of the Jacobean age. From James's 'inadvised' relationships with a series of favourites and Gentlemen of the Bedchamber to his conflicts with a Parliament which refused to fit its legislation to the Monarch's will, Stewart lucidly untangles the intricacies of James's life. In doing so, he uncovers the extent to which Charles I's downfall was caused by the cracks that appeared in the monarchy during his father's reign.
Reading and Writing during the Dissolution
Author: Mary C. ErlerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107435331
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
In the years from 1534, when Henry VIII became head of the English church until the end of Mary Tudor's reign in 1558, the forms of English religious life evolved quickly and in complex ways. At the heart of these changes stood the country's professed religious men and women, whose institutional homes were closed between 1535 and 1540. Records of their reading and writing offer a remarkable view of these turbulent times. The responses to religious change of friars, anchorites, monks and nuns from London and the surrounding regions are shown through chronicles, devotional texts, and letters. What becomes apparent is the variety of positions that English religious men and women took up at the Reformation and the accommodations that they reached, both spiritual and practical. Of particular interest are the extraordinary letters of Margaret Vernon, head of four nunneries and personal friend of Thomas Cromwell.
Catalogues of Items for Auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1850-1880
Author: Catalogue
Author: Sotheby, Wilkinson & HodgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of the College of St. Margaret Ad St. Bernard, Commonly Called Queen's College
Author: Queens' College (University of Cambridge) LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Regesta regum Anglo-Normannorum 1066-1154 ...: Regesta Willelmi Conquestoris et Willelmi Rufi 1066-1100. Edited with introductions, notes and indexes by H. W. C. Davis with the assistance of R. J. Whitwell
Author: Great Britain. SovereignPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Book-auction Records
Author: Book Auction Records
Author: Frank KarslakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.
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Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description