Author: Ambrose PhilipsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The Life of John Williams ... in the Reigns of King James and King Charles the First ...
Author: Ambrose PhilipsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The Life of John Williams ... in the Reigns of King James, and King Charles the First
Author: Ambrose PhilipsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Life of John Williams ... in the Reigns of King James, and King Charles the First
Author: Ambrose PhilipsCatalogus Bibliothecae Harleianae
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Catalogue of books on British history
Author: British historyKing James and Letters of Homoerotic Desire
Author: David M. BergeronPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587292726
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
What can we know of the private lives of early British sovereigns? Through the unusually large number of letters that survive from King James VI of Scotland/James I of England (1566-1625), we can know a great deal. Using original letters, primarily from the British Library and the National Library of Scotland, David Bergeron creatively argues that James' correspondence with certain men in his court constitutes a gospel of homoerotic desire. Bergeron grounds his provocative study on an examination of the tradition of letter writing during the Renaissance and draws a connection between homosexual desire and letter writing during that historical period. King James, commissioner of the Bible translation that bears his name, corresponded with three principal male favorites—Esmé Stuart (Lennox), Robert Carr (Somerset), and George Villiers (Buckingham). Esmé Stuart, James' older French cousin, arrived in Scotland in 1579 and became an intimate adviser and friend to the adolescent king. Though Esmé was eventually forced into exile by Scottish nobles, his letters to James survive, as does James' hauntingly allegorical poem Phoenix. The king's close relationship with Carr began in 1607. James' letters to Carr reveal remarkable outbursts of sexual frustration and passion. A large collection of letters exchanged between James and Buckingham in the 1620s provides the clearest evidence for James' homoerotic desires. During a protracted separation in 1623, letters between the two raced back and forth. These artful, self-conscious letters explore themes of absence, the pleasure of letters, and a preoccupation with the body. Familial and sexual terms become wonderfully intertwined, as when James greets Buckingham as "my sweet child and wife." King James and Letters of Homoerotic Desire presents a modern-spelling edition of seventy-five letters exchanged between Buckingham and James. Across the centuries, commentators have condemned the letters as indecent or repulsive. Bergeron argues that on the contrary they reveal an inward desire of king and subject in a mutual exchange of love.
A Chronicle of the Kings of England, from the Time of the Romans Government Unto the Death of King James. Containing All Passages of State and Church, with All Other Observations Proper for a Chronicle. Faithfully Collected of Authors Ancient and Modern; and Digested Into a Method. By Sir Richard Baker ... Whereunto is Added, The Reign of King Charles the First, and the First Thirteen Years of His Sacred Majesty, King Charles the Second ... All which Additions are Revised in this Fifth Impressio, and Free from Many Errors and Mistakes of the Former Editions
Author: Richard BakerBibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English Literature Made During the Years 1893-1903
Author: William Carew HazlittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Men of Letters and the English Public in the Eighteenth Century, 1660-1744
Author: Alexandre BeljamePublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415176101
Category : Authors and readers
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Robert Shiells