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Richard I
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Richard I
Gustav Vasa
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Gustav Vasa
Henry of Navarre
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Henry of Navarre
The Antichrist
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The Antichrist
History of Germany 1740-1914
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History of Germany 1740-1914
History of the German Empire
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History of the German Empire
Jane Austen and Her Times
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Jane Austen and Her Times
Stuyvesant
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Stuyvesant
Stories of the Vikings
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Stories of the Vikings
History of the United States
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History of the United States
Utopia
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Utopia
William the Conqueror
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William the Conqueror
William the Third
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William the Third
Constantine the Great
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Constantine the Great
Herman Melville
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Herman Melville
David Crockett
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David Crockett
Gibbon
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Gibbon
Junipero Serra
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Junipero Serra
The Medici Popes
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The Medici Popes
Auguste Comte and Positivism
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Auguste Comte and Positivism
Power and Glory: Jacobean England and the Making of the King James Bible (Text o
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A fascinating, lively account of the making of the King James Bible. James VI of Scotland – now James I of England – came into his new kingdom in 1603. Trained almost from birth to manage rival political factions, he was determined not only to hold his throne, but to avoid the strife caused by religious groups that was bedevilling most European countries. He would hold his God-appointed position and unify his kingdom. Out of these circumstances, and involving the very people who were engaged in the bitterest controversies, a book of extraordinary grace and lasting literary appeal was created: the King James Bible. 47 scholars from Cambridge, Oxford and London translated the Bible, drawing from many previous versions, and created what many believe to be the greatest prose work ever written in English – the product of a culture in a peculiarly conflicted era. This was the England of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson and Bacon; but also of extremist Puritans, the Gunpowder plot, the Plague, of slum dwellings and crushing religious confines. Quite how this astonishing translation emerges is the central question of this book. Far more than Shakespeare, this Bible helped to create and shape the language. It is the origin of many of our most familiar phrases, and the foundations of the English-speaking world. It was a generous and deliberate decision to make the Bible available to the common man: not an immediate commercial success, but which later became a bestseller, and has remained one ever since. Adam Nicolson gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the early years of the first Stewart ruler, and the scholars who laboured for seven years to create the world's greatest book; immersing us in a world of ingratiating bishops, a fascinating monarch and London at a time unlike any other.
