James I of England

King James was the king of England and Scotland. James started his rule over Scotland when he was only 13 months old. He was born on June 19, 1566 and the only son of Queen Mary of Scotland. He ruled Scotland from July 24, 1567 to his death. His father’s death was the reason he was crowned so early. Though he was technically king, he wasn’t able to actually rule until he was old enough. So in reality, the priest was king until he took over. King James also ruled England from March 24, 1603…

Elizabethan Era was a time of many popular skilled sports. The Elizabethan era was from 1558-1603. There were a numerous amount of sports and activities people could participate in. Sports gained popularity immensely during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. All social classes, genders, and ages could play. Some sports were played individually while others were played with a team. Sports were used as a pastime for some people, and others used it as skill training. There were many popular sports…

“Eadmer’s Account of Queen Edith-Matilda” was a part of collected document from Medieval England 1500-1000: A Reader edited by Emilie Amt. Her document was edited from Edmer’s History of Recent Event in England: Historia Novorum in Anglia. This book was published by Geoffrey Bonsanquet, who translated Eadmer’s book from Latin to English. This text describes Queen Edith-Matilda’s trial. It is our job as a historian to analysis the document to understand conception of history. Too understand and…

Frankestein gives no importance to women and loses out the support he could gotten to overcome tragedy. Frankestein says, “she presented Elizabeth to me as her promised gift, I, with childish seriousness, interpreted her words literally and looked upon Elizabeth as mine--mine to protect, love, and cherish. All praises bestowed on her I received as made to a possession of my own”, Frankestein treats Elizabeth as a property and not really giving her the value of a real human. It would have been…

power King Henry manipulates the situation so that his followers believe that the crusade is for the greater good of England and not for his personal repentance. The religious allusion of Jesus in “which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed/ for our advantage on the bitter cross” is shakespeare representation of the infighting between the protestant and catholic faction of England in the Elizabethan Era. In addition shakespeare representation of the crusades in the play is his claim that an…

Many historians wonder what is the most sole significant achievement of Henry VII’s – making the crown of England dynasty or making the country itself better. On 21st April 1509 Henry VII sadly passed away, leaving the crown to his youngest son, Henry VIII. Henry VIII then later married Catherine of Aragon on 11th June and after had their coronation on 24th June 1509 at Westminster Abby. Henry VII’s sole achievement was to pass the throne onto his son, which he did manage to pass the throne…

throughout time as the powerful words of the first queen to ever be publicly executed. Anne stated calmly, “Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die, but I pray God save the king and send him long to reign over you, for a gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never: and…

posed to the Elizabethan religious settlement; the death of advisers such as Burghley, Walsingham and the Earl of Leicester which meant Elizabeth I was now surrounded by new advisers she didn’t know if she could trust; the issue of succession which posed a threat to the Tudor dynasty. In order to assess the seriousness of these problems that Elizabeth I was facing at the end of her reign it is necessary to look at whether these problems posed a direct threat to her life, the Tudor dynasty or the…

presented in the Jacobean and Elizabethan times? In this essay I will be discussing and comparing the way different forms of love are presented in Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet. Macbeth was written in the Jacobean times and Romeo and Juliet was written in the Elizabethan times, two very different time periods and I will be showing how these two different time periods affect the way the plays have been written. The Jacobean period was when James the first was ruling which was 1600s and the…

One of the most distinctive qualities of Machiavelli’s essay The Prince is its lack of interest in personal morality. Machiavelli’s primary interest is in the end justifying the means and how the ambition for power can be achieved and maintained, thus leaving little room for questions of morality. The distinctive quality of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is the play’s focus on the complex moral question of what would drive a good man to commit an evil act, believing he was doing it not for his own…