The Jacobean Era

The Jacobean Era - Important Key Facts

-Named after James I [renamed for English rule]
-Dates: 1603-1625
-The era tries to imitate Elizabeth; it backfires
-The era over which James oversaw was a much darker era.

-James dies, Charles I comes to throne and is eventually kicked off

-1660 was the era known as the interregnum [between monarchs when parliament was ruling]
○ Prosperity of previous era isn't going to happen
○ Era of disillusionment
○ Find ourselves in the world of growing disillusionment where everything seems dead

Basilikon Doron
-Means "the kingly gift". A book about how to be a good king - James gives to his son Charles I.

-The work preaches the concept of "god on earth".

-In the work, James says that if you hide any treacherous thought, he would find it and 'cut it out'

-The work, according to James, was accidentally leaked before his arrival in England - some say he did it intentionally to see how people would respond to his doctrine of rule before on English soil

-Theory of absolutism - the notion of ruling absolutely. James is famous for saying 'there shall be no parliament'. It is the sense that kings and monarchs, like the pope were invested with two bodies

Kate McAvoy, Ian's Section 1E