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The Life and Times of King James VI of Scotland, I of England
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This biography follows James VI of Scotland as he became James I of England and ruled over the joined crowns after Elizabeth I’s death. Fraser examines his Scottish upbringing, accession to the English throne, court politics, religious policy, dynastic ambitions and the Jacobean crises that included the Gunpowder Plot. The book treats James as a complex Stuart monarch: intellectually ambitious, politically cautious, vulnerable to favourites and central to the transition from Tudor rule to the conflicts of the seventeenth century.
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