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Kingship and crown finance under James VI and I, 1603-1625, John Cramsie

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Kingship and crown finance under James VI and I, 1603-1625, John Cramsie

Language

eng

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Kingship and crown finance under James VI and I, 1603-1625

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electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1097122374

Responsibility statement

John Cramsie

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Summary

This book rejects outright the stereotypical image of James VI and I as mindlessly extravagant and integrates crown finance with James's kingship. It offers both a fresh view of crown finance - one of the blackest elements in James's historical reputation - and a reconstruction of how the king who wrote on divine right monarchy operated his kingship in practice. Drawing on both his humanist education, particularly his reading of Xenophon's <I>Cyropaedia</I>, and his kingship in Scotland, James developed a clear, considered agenda for crown finance. He used it consciously to underwrite his novel position as the first king of "Great Britain" and to consolidate the Stuart dynasty outside of Scotland. This study analyses in detail how James fashioned and refashioned political regimes in England to further this agenda between 1603-25. JOHN CRAMSIE is Assistant Professor of British and Irish History at Union College, Schenectady, New York.--, Provided by publisher

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Kingship & Crown Finance under James VI & I, 1603–1625

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