Majestie
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Majestie

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Majestie

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In the Beginning, James.

Orphaned, bullied, lonely, and unloved as a boy, in time the young King of Scots overcame his troubled beginnings to ascend the English throne at the height of England's Golden Age. In an effort to pacify rising tensions in the Anglican Church, and to reflect the majesty of his new reign, he spearheaded the most important literary undertaking in Western history—the translation of the Bible into a beautiful, lyrical, and accessible English.

David Teems's narrative crackles with wit, using a thoroughly modern tongue to reanimate the life of this seventeenth century king—a man at the intersection of political, literary, and religious thought, yet a man of contrasts, dubbed by one French king as "the wisest fool in Christendom."

Warm, insightful, even at times amusing, Teems's depiction of King James has all the elements of a grand tale—conspiracy, kidnapping, witchcraft, murder, love, despair, loss. Majestie offers an engaging new look at the world's most cherished, revered, and influential translation of Sacred Writ and the king behind it.

"Engrossing and entertaining…a delightful read in every way." – Publishers Weekly

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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Year
2010
ISBN
9781595553812
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
History of Christianity

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Prologue: For a Penny’s Worth of Hamlet
  7. 1. Mom and Dad (or An Evening with the Macbeths)
  8. 2. A Fawn Among Jackals
  9. 3. Rockabye Sweet Baby James
  10. 4. The Most Valuable Life in Scotland
  11. 5. Greek Before Breakfast, Latin Before Scots
  12. 6. A Timid, Friendless Boy
  13. 7. Speak of Me As I Am
  14. 8. You Don’t Know Jack
  15. 9. Mum
  16. 10. The Age Was Lousy with Poets
  17. 11. Double, Double, Toil, and Trouble
  18. 12. The Supremest Thing on Earth
  19. 13. 1603
  20. 14. The Hampton Court Conference
  21. 15. With All the Lightness of an Afterthought
  22. 16. The Elizabethan Aesthetic
  23. 17. All the King’s Men
  24. 18. The Lost Bois
  25. 19. To the Chief Musician
  26. 20. Finishing Touches
  27. Epilogue: The Pan King
  28. Appendix A: Chronology
  29. Appendix B: The Stuart Succession
  30. Appendix C: The Rules
  31. Notes
  32. Bibliography
  33. Acknowledgments
  34. About the Author
  35. Index