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Exploring Early Modern Sexualities: The Desires of King James VI & I Jason O'Toole 9781350541672
Booksplease Price: $104.14How might we understand early modern sexuality prior to contemporary interpretations of sexuality? What does the sex life of James VI and I tell us about the history of sexuality? Jason O'Toole... -
James I: Scotland's King of England by John Matusiak 9780750986830
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.33Few kings have been more savagely caricatured or grossly misunderstood than England's first Stuart. Yet, as this biography demonstrates, the modern tendency to downplay his defects and minimise the... -
The Early Life of James VI: A Long Apprenticeship, 1566–1585 by Steven J. Reid
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $90.91Shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Award James VI and I was arguably the most successful ruler of the Stewart Dynasty in Scotland, and the first king of a united... -
Raiders along the Anglo-Scottish Border: A History of those ‘Pacified’ by King James Jon Tait 9781036135638
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $24.81Like Gomorrah with horses - that's probably the best way to describe the stories of those inhabiting the heather-clad hills between England and Scotland who were strung up on gallows during the... -
James VI and I: Collected Essays by Jenny Wormald Jenny Wormald 9780859767507
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $28.78The 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... -
King James and the History of Homosexuality by Michael Young 9781781555439
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.19James VI & I, the namesake of the King James Version of the Bible, had a series of notorious male favourites. No one denies that these relationships were amorous, but were they sexual? Michael B... -
King James VI and I: Political Writings by James VI and I,King
Booksplease Price: $44.48James VI and I united the crowns of England and Scotland. His books are fundamental sources of the principles which underlay the union. In particular, his Basilikon Doron was a best-seller in England... -
The Wisest Fool: The Lavish Life of James VI and I by Steven Veerapen 9781780278162
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $31.19James VI and I, the first monarch to reign over Scotland, England and Ireland, has long endured a mixed reputation. To many, he is simply the homosexual King, the inveterate witch-roaster, the smelly... -
James VI and I: Collected Essays by Jenny Wormald by Jenny Wormald
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $114.69The 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... -
When God Spoke English: The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson 9780007431007
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68A fascinating, lively account of the making of the King James Bible. James VI of Scotland - now James I of England - came into his new kingdom in 1603. Trained almost from birth to manage... -
The Apocrypha: King James Version by King James VI & Apocryphal Translators
RRP: $25.22Booksplease Price: $20.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781387591466Author King James VI & Apocryphal TranslatorsFormat PaperbackP -
A King Translated: The Writings of King James VI & I and their Interpretation in the Low Countries, 1593-1603 Astrid Stilma 9781138115538
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $60.36King James is well known as the most prolific writer of all the Stuart monarchs, publishing works on numerous topics and issues. These works were widely read, not only in Scotland and England but... -
James VI and Noble Power in Scotland 1578-1603 by Dr. Steven J. Reid
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $57.78James VI and Noble Power in Scotland explores how Scotland was governed in the late sixteenth century by examining the dynamic between King James and his nobles from the end of his formal minority in... -
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When God Spoke English: The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson 9780007431007 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.84A fascinating, lively account of the making of the King James Bible. James VI of Scotland - now James I of England - came into his new kingdom in 1603. Trained almost from birth to manage... -
Theatre and Empire: Great Britain on the London Stages Under James vi and I by Tristan Marshall 9781526151728
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.37Theatre and empire explores the genesis of British national identity in the reign of King James VI and I. While devolution is currently decentralising Britain, this book examines how the idea of a... -
The Early Stuart Kings, 1603-1642 by Graham E. Seel
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $49.01In 1603 King James I ascended the throne to become the first King of a united England and Scotland. There followed a period of increasing religious and political discord, culminating in the English... -
James VI and I: King of Great Britain by Irene Carrier 9780521499477
Booksplease Price: $23.79James VI and I is a new title in the Cambridge Topics in History series. It covers all of the important areas of James VI and I's reign, focusing on the personality of the King, Anglo-Scottish Union,... -
The Mirror of Great Britain: A Life of King James VI and I by Clare Jackson 9781324094999
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $32.52History has not been kind to King James. A cradle king who was crowned in Scotland in 1567 and England and Ireland in 1603, James VI and I has long been eclipsed in fame and reputation by his... -
The Duke of Lennox, 1574-1624: A Jacobean Courtier's Life by 9781399500449
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $115.84This is the first biography of Ludovic Stuart, Duke of Lennox, who served in the court of King James VI of Scotland from 1583 until his unexpected death in 1624. Lennox arrived in Scotland in... -
King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom by W. B. Patterson 9780521793858
Booksplease Price: $44.87This book shows King James VI and I, king of Scotland and England, in an unaccustomed light. Long regarded as inept, pedantic, and whimsical, James is shown here as an astute and far-sighted... -
The Duke of Lennox, 1574-1624: A Jacobean Courtier's Life by David M. Bergeron 9781399500456
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $24.55A biography of the second Duke of Lennox, the most consequential person in the Jacobean court in Scotland and England Provides an overview of the politics and culture of Scottish and English life... -
King James by Pauline Croft 9780333613962
Booksplease Price: $47.50The accession of James VI of Scotland to the English throne in 1603 created a multiple monarchy covering the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland which endured until 1922. Clear and... -
The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart by Sarah Fraser 9780007548101
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.55Henry Stuart's life is the last great forgotten Jacobean tale. Shadowed by the gravity of the Thirty Years' War and the huge changes taking place across Europe in seventeenth-century... -
James VI, Britannic Prince: King of Scots and Elizabeth’s Heir, 1566–1603 by Alexander Courtney 9781138606265
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $50.09By drawing upon recent scholarship, original manuscript materials, and previously unpublished sources, this new biography presents an analytical narrative of King James VI & I’s life from his birth... -
A Protestant Lord in James VI's Scotland - George Keith, Fifth Earl Marischal (1554-1623) by Miles Kerr-Peterson
Booksplease Price: $124.37A study of the life and career of one of Scotland's leading magnates during a turbulent period. George Keith, fifth Earl Marischal, is an outstanding example of long-term successful Protestant... -
Rebellion: Britain's First Stuart Kings, 1567-1642 by Tim Harris
RRP: $30.30Booksplease Price: $25.67A gripping new account of one of the most important and exciting periods of British and Irish history: the reign of the first two Stuart kings, from 1567 to the outbreak of civil war in 1642 - and... -
The Subject of Britain, 1603–25 Christopher Ivic 9781526191137
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.37The subject of Britain analyses key seventeenth-century texts by Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare within the context of the English reign of King James VI and I, whose desire to create a united Britain... -
Rebellion: Britain's First Stuart Kings, 1567-1642 by Tim Harris 9780199209002
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $38.29A gripping new account of one of the most important and exciting periods of British and Irish history: the reign of the first two Stuart kings, from 1567 to the outbreak of civil war in 1642 - and... -
Sonnets of King James VI & I by James Charles Stuart 9781088142790
RRP: $6.44Booksplease Price: $5.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088142790Author James Charles StuartFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imp -
Great Western Railway Stars, Castles and Kings by Allen Jackson
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $24.42Great Western Railway Stars, Castles and Kings examines the history and workings of these legendary classes of passenger steam locomotives, the first of which, the North Star, was built in 1906. ... -
Henry VI by David Grummitt
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $59.97In this new assessment of Henry VI, David Grummitt synthesizes a wealth of detailed research into Lancastrian England that has taken place throughout the last three decades to provide a fresh... -
The Forgotten Tudor Royal: Margaret Douglas, Grandmother to King James VI & I by Beverley Adams 9781399085908
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $21.44As the daughter and cousin of queens and the granddaughter and niece of kings, Lady Margaret Douglas was an integral part of the Tudor royal dynasty. A favourite of her uncle King Henry VIII and a... -
James VI & I: Kingship, Government and Religion Alexander Courtney 9781032334707
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20James VI & I: Politics, 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... -
The King's Evil (James Marwood & Cat Lovett, Book 3) by Andrew Taylor 9780008119195
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66Winner of The HWA Gold Crown 2020 From the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court comes the next book in the phenomenally successful... -
Writing the Monarch in Jacobean England: Jonson, Donne, Shakespeare and the Works of King James by Jane Rickard 9781107120662
Booksplease Price: $123.18King James VI and I's extensive publications and the responses they met played a key role in the literary culture of Jacobean England. This book is the first sustained study of how James's subjects... -
Writing the Monarch in Jacobean England: Jonson, Donne, Shakespeare and the Works of King James by Jane Rickard 9781107546769
Booksplease Price: $45.76King James VI and I's extensive publications and the responses they met played a key role in the literary culture of Jacobean England. This book is the first sustained study of how James's subjects... -
James I , The King Who United Scotland and England by Keith Coleman 9781399093590
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $24.81The life of King James VI who united England and Scotland under one crown and became James I in 1603 is marked by contradictions. Generally praised as a good king of Scotland and a poor English one,... -
James the Third by Maggie Ballinger
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22In 1936, the Duke of York unexpectedly became King George VI, and his ten-year-old daughter, Princess Elizabeth, became heir presumptive. However, she was never heir apparent, because a male sibling... -
Witches: A King's Obsession Steven Veerapen 9781780279527
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.94Witches - whether broomstick-riding spell-casters or Wiccan earth-worshippers - have been culturally relevant for centuries. For centuries, too, belief in the potency of witchcraft has been debated,... -
Constructing Kingship: The Capetian Monarchs of France and the Early Crusades by James Naus 9781526127259
Booksplease Price: $30.37Crusading kings such as Louis IX of France and Richard I of England exert a unique hold on our historical imagination. For this reason, it can be easy to forget that European rulers were not always...