Witches have been culturally relevant for centuries, but where did our perception of witches good and bad come from? Steven Veerapen traces witches, witchcraft, and witch-hunters from the explosion of mass-trials under King James VI and I in the l...Daugiau...
In this new biography, the story of James VI and I is laid bare, and a welter of scurrilous assumptions penned by his political opponents put to rest.James VI and I, the first monarch to reign over Scotland, England and Ireland, has long endured a mi...Daugiau...
James VI and I has long endured a mixed reputation. To many, he is the homosexual King, the inveterate witch-roaster, the smelly sovereign who never washed, the colourless man behind the authorised Bible bearing his name, the drooling fool whose spee...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 02-Mar-2023, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited, ISBN-13: 9781846976292)
Spring, 1523. The Kings chief minister, Cardinal Wolsey, prepares to open Parliament at Blackfriars, but all is not well in Wolseys household. A visiting critic of the Cardinal is found brutally slain whilst awaiting an audience at Richmond Palace....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 05-May-2022, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited, ISBN-13: 9781846976131)
Summer, 1522. In a wave of pomp, Henry VIIIs court welcomes the Imperial emperor, Charles V. Anthony Blanke, the son of the kings late black trumpet, John Blanke, is called to Hampton Court by his former employer, Cardinal Wolsey. The cardinal...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 20-Dec-2021, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, ISBN-13: 9781789973419)
On the death of Elizabeth I, Anna of Denmark, wife to James VI and I, became the first queen consort of both England and Scotland. She offered her subjects north and south of the border an ideal of consortship: an attractive, fecund woman with a f...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 10-Dec-2019, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, ISBN-13: 9781789976731)
The Elizabethan era is generally understood to coincide with the blossoming of English language it was the age of Shakespeare, Sidney, and Marlowe. Yet it is known also as a period of brutality and repression: saying or writing anything against...Daugiau...
