James VI and Noble Power in Scotland 1578-1603

Kerr-Peterson, M. and Reid, S. J. (Eds.) (2017) James VI and Noble Power in Scotland 1578-1603. Series: Routledge research in early modern history. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138946064

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Abstract

James 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 1578 until his accession to the English throne in 1603. The collection assesses James’ relationship with his nobility, detailing how he interacted with them, and how they fought, co-operated with and understood each other. It includes case studies from across Scotland from the Highlands to the Borders and burghs, and on major individual events such as the famous Gowrie conspiracy. Themes such as the nature of government in Scotland and religion as a shaper of policy and faction are addressed, as well as broader perspectives on the British and European nobility, bloodfeuds, and state-building in the early modern period. The ten chapters together challenge well-established notions that James aimed to be a modern, centralising monarch seeking to curb the traditional structures of power, and that the period represented a period of crisis for the traditional and unrestrained culture of feuding nobility. The book as a whole demonstrates that King James was a competent and successful manager of his kingdom who demanded a new level of obedience as a ‘universal king’, and offers the first new corporate study of James VI in his Scottish context in almost twenty years.

Item Type:Edited Books
Status:Published
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Kerr-Peterson, Dr Miles and Reid, Professor Steven
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Subjects:D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain
College/School:College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > History
Publisher:Routledge
ISBN:9781138946064
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Project CodeAward NoProject NamePrincipal InvestigatorFunder's NameFunder RefLead Dept
585871Bridging the Continental divide: neo-Latin and its cultural role in Jacobean Scotland, as seen in the Delitiate Poetarum Scotorum (1637)Steven ReidArts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)AH/J007331/1HU - HISTORY