1st Edition
James VI and I Kingship, Government and Religion
Introduction
Alexander Courtney and Michael Questier
1. One King, and Many: New Perspectives on James’s Personal Reign in Scotland, c. 1578–c. 1603
Steven J. Reid
2. To ‘Read a Perfect King Indeed’: James VI’s Printed Writings, c. 1584–1603
Alexander Courtney
3. The Jacobean Union Revisited, 1603–1607
Andrew Thrush
4. James VI and I: A Corrupt Reign or the Reign of Anti-Corruption?
David Chan Smith
5. Toleration and Ecumenism or Heretic-Burning and a Papal Antichrist?: Another Look at King James VI and I
Anthony Milton
6. Setting Down Roots: Establishing the Society of Jesus in Jacobean England
Thomas M. McCoog
7. Rex Pacificus and the Short Peace, 1598–1625
Noah Millstone
8. Inconsistency Re-Established: James I and Government Policy in Ireland
David Heffernan
9. Play It Again, Solomon: The Burning of Edward Elton’s Books and the Religious Policy of James I at the End of His Reign
Peter Lake
10. (The Legacy of) James’s Common Cause, 1624–1625
Kathryn Marshalek
Biography
Alexander Courtney is an independent scholar and Assistant Head (Teaching & Learning) at The Perse School, Cambridge, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the author of James VI, Britannic Prince: King of Scots and Elizabeth’s Heir, 1566-1603 (2024).
Michael Questier is Hon. Chair in the Centre for Catholic Studies, Department of Theology, University of Durham, and the author and editor of several works on early modern political and religious history, including most recently Dynastic Politics and the British Reformations, 1580-1630 (2019) and Catholics and Treason: Martyrology, Memory, and Politics in the Post-Reformation (2022).
