The Mirror of Great Britain: A Life of King James VI and I

A major reassessment of King James I of England and VI of Scotland, revealing the long origins of an uneasily united kingdom. Bible-thumper, witch-hunter: history has not been kind to King James. A cradle king who was crowned in Scotland in 1567 and England and Ireland in 1603, James VI and I has long been eclipsed in fame and reputation by his cousin and predecessor, Elizabeth I, and his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots. Now, four hundred years after his death, Wolfson History Prize–winning histori