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Agrippa's De Occulta Philosophia
Agrippa’s De Occulta Philosophia
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Amsterdam Group
Author_Astrid Stilma
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Basilikon Doron
Buchanan's Rerum Scoticarum Historia
Buchanan’s Rerum Scoticarum Historia
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Cornelis Claesz
De Iure Regni
Demonic Pact
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Du Bartas
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Dutch interpretations of Stuart texts
early modern political thought
Emanuel Van Meteren
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Henri III
Home Town
James's Contemporaries
James's Daemonologie
James's Meditations
James's Poem
James's Works
James's Writings
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James’s Contemporaries
James’s Daemonologie
James’s Meditations
James’s Poem
James’s Works
James’s Writings
North Berwick Witches
Protestant Demonology
Protestant Reformation studies
religious polemics
Rex Pacificus
Scottish intellectual history
St Thomas Aquinas
translation reception theory
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Van Der Myl
Witch Lore
Witchcraft Debate
witchcraft historiography
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Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138115538
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 May 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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King James is well known as the most prolific writer of all the Stuart monarchs, publishing works on numerous topics and issues. These works were widely read, not only in Scotland and England but also on the Continent, where they appeared in several translations. In this book, Dr Stilma looks both at the domestic and international context to James's writings, using as a case study a set of Dutch translations which includes his religious meditations, his epic poem The Battle of Lepanto, his treatise on witchcraft Daemonologie and his manual on kingship Basilikon Doron. The book provides an examination of James's writings within their original Scottish context, particularly their political implications and their role in his management of his religio-political reputation both at home and abroad. The second half of each chapter is concerned with contemporary interpretations of these works by James's readers. The Dutch translations are presented as a case study of an ultra-protestant and anti-Spanish reading from which James emerges as a potential leader of protestant Europe; a reputation he initially courted, then distanced himself from after his accession to the English throne in 1603. In so doing this book greatly adds to our appreciation of James as an author, providing an exploration of his works as politically expedient statements, which were sometimes ambiguous enough to allow diverging - and occasionally unwelcome - interpretations. It is one of the few studies of James to offer a sustained critical reading of these texts, together with an exploration of the national and international context in which they were published and read. As such this book contributes to the understanding not only of James's works as political tools, but also of the preoccupations of publishers and translators, and the interpretative spaces in the works they were making available to an international audience.
strid Stilma Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
