James I and His Literary Assistantsстатья из журнала
Аннотация: A WELL-KNOWN trait of James I was his fondness for learned lXconversation, especially at the dinner table. As a boy in Scotland he was accustomed to the reading and discussion of the Scriptures during his meals; and later in England he loved to gather round him at table his favorite divines and a few selected laymen whose learning and dispositions were such as he could appreciate. It was the custom of King James, wrote Francis Osborne, ... to discourse during meals with the chaplain that said grace or other divines concerning some point of controversy in philosophy. That King's table was a trial of wits, wrote Hacket. The reading of some books before him was very frequent while he was at his repast. Otherwise he collected knowledge by variety of questions which he carved out to the capacity of [those about him].... He was ever in chase after some disputable doubts which he would wind and turn about with the most stabbing objections that ever I heard. And was as pleasant and fellow-like in all those discourses as with his huntsmen in the field.2 On these occasions, to be sure, James sat enjoying his dinner while those who attended him stood reverently behind his chair without having dined themselves. Doubtless he often paraded his knowledge, as in the famous audience he gave to Sir John Harington. His interest was not in scholarship or in the general field of letters but in a kind of theological lore which justified the position of the Anglican Church
Год издания: 1944
Авторы: David Harris Willson
Издательство: University of Pennsylvania Press
Источник: Huntington Library Quarterly
Ключевые слова: Reformation and Early Modern Christianity, Scottish History and National Identity, American Constitutional Law and Politics
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Том: 8
Выпуск: 1
Страницы: 35–57