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3 days ago · By drawing upon recent scholarship, original manuscript materials, and previously unpublished sources, this new biography presents an analytical narrative of King James VI & I’s life from his birth in 1566 to his accession to the throne of England and Ireland in 1603.The only son of Mary Stuart and heir (apparent but not uncontested) to ...
1 day ago · This paper also includes a link to modern portraits, contrasting the pictures of Elizabeth I with modern images of Claude Cahun, Marilyn Monroe and Gwyneth Paltrow. The authors argue that Elizabeth was an Early Modern ‘diva’ and a forerunner of the modern obsession with celebrity.
3 days ago · By the extinction of the direct line of the English royal family with Elizabeth, the succession was peaceably admitted to be in James VI. of Scotland, as great grandson of Margaret, eldest daughter of Henry VII ; who, as usual with all new kings, was proclaimed with great demonstrations of joy: an additional circumstance however concurred in ...
3 days ago · Edward VI and the Pope: An Allegory of the Reformation. This Elizabethan work of propaganda depicts the handing over of power from Henry VIII, who lies dying in bed, to Edward VI, seated beneath a cloth of state with a slumping pope at his feet. In the top right of the picture is an image of men pulling down and smashing idols.
1 day ago · The immensely popular Elizabeth exhibition at the National Maritime Museum ends with a contemporary pictorial record of Elizabeth’s funeral procession. Significantly, it is one of the first such depictions of an English sovereign.
2 days ago · If his relationship with James was sometimes strained, the circumstances of Melville’s career and the character of his scholarship prevented him from becoming a theorist of resistance. Melville’s dealings with James VI are central to a second dimension of his new reputation.
5 days ago · Charter by King James VI. under his Great Seal, granting in feu to Walter, Commendator of Blantyre, the lands and barony of Glasgow, and other lands and duties. Holyrood, 3d November 1587. [Latin text]
