🚚 Free delivery on orders over $99, or try 'Click & Collect' for stocked items!

Majestie

David Teems

Paperback 2010-10-18

Publisher Description

Written with a touch of the irreverent, Majestie is a shared biography: that of the first Stuart King of England, James I, and the Bible that goes by his name. It is part tabloid, part history lesson, part speculation; but it's all James.

A biography of James Stuart is a study in paradox, one that entertains as much as it informs. James I waddles through history, sidewise and crablike. Intellectually astute, he can dazzle and charm with the polish of his rhetoric one minute, and speak with the vulgarity of a tavern bawd the next. James is an amusing mix of bombast and majesty, of sparkle and grime, of smut and brilliance, of visionary headship and foolishness. "And only he, this all-too-human king, our flawed James, could have given us the great book he did."

Read more

$24.99

Publisher Description

Written with a touch of the irreverent, Majestie is a shared biography: that of the first Stuart King of England, James I, and the Bible that goes by his name. It is part tabloid, part history lesson, part speculation; but it's all James.

A biography of James Stuart is a study in paradox, one that entertains as much as it informs. James I waddles through history, sidewise and crablike. Intellectually astute, he can dazzle and charm with the polish of his rhetoric one minute, and speak with the vulgarity of a tavern bawd the next. James is an amusing mix of bombast and majesty, of sparkle and grime, of smut and brilliance, of visionary headship and foolishness. "And only he, this all-too-human king, our flawed James, could have given us the great book he did."

Koorong Code305619
ISBN1595552200
EAN9781595552204
Pages320
DepartmentBooks
CategoryBiography
PublisherThomas Nelson Publishers
Publication DateOct 2010
Dimensions25 x 140 x 201mm
Weight0.281kg