Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Patrick Collinson
- 1 Nicolas Pithou: experience, conscience and history in the French civil wars
- 2 Elizabethan players and minstrels and the legislation of 1572 against retainers and vagabonds
- 3 Cleanliness and godliness in early modern England
- 4 Blood is their argument: men of war and soldiers in Shakespeare and others
- 5 Pragmatic readers: knowledge transactions and scholarly services in late Elizabethan England
- 6 The gardens of Sir Nicholas and Sir Francis Bacon: an enigma resolved and a mind explored
- 7 The Protestant idea of marriage in early modern England
- 8 James VI and I: furnishing the churches in his two kingdoms
- 9 A British patriarchy? Ecclesiastical imperialism under the early Stuarts
- 10 The Anglo-Scottish Union 1603–1643: a success?
- 11 Popery, purity and Providence: deciphering the New England experiment
- 12 Provincial preaching on the eve of the Civil War: some West Riding fast sermons
- 13 Popular form, Puritan content? Two Puritan appropriations of the murder pamphlet from mid-seventeenth-century London
- 14 The two ‘National Churches’ of 1691 and 1829
- Bibliography of the published writings of Patrick Collinson, 1957–1992
- Index
8 - James VI and I: furnishing the churches in his two kingdoms
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Patrick Collinson
- 1 Nicolas Pithou: experience, conscience and history in the French civil wars
- 2 Elizabethan players and minstrels and the legislation of 1572 against retainers and vagabonds
- 3 Cleanliness and godliness in early modern England
- 4 Blood is their argument: men of war and soldiers in Shakespeare and others
- 5 Pragmatic readers: knowledge transactions and scholarly services in late Elizabethan England
- 6 The gardens of Sir Nicholas and Sir Francis Bacon: an enigma resolved and a mind explored
- 7 The Protestant idea of marriage in early modern England
- 8 James VI and I: furnishing the churches in his two kingdoms
- 9 A British patriarchy? Ecclesiastical imperialism under the early Stuarts
- 10 The Anglo-Scottish Union 1603–1643: a success?
- 11 Popery, purity and Providence: deciphering the New England experiment
- 12 Provincial preaching on the eve of the Civil War: some West Riding fast sermons
- 13 Popular form, Puritan content? Two Puritan appropriations of the murder pamphlet from mid-seventeenth-century London
- 14 The two ‘National Churches’ of 1691 and 1829
- Bibliography of the published writings of Patrick Collinson, 1957–1992
- Index
Summary
In his preface to The Religion of Protestants Patrick Collinson wrote, ‘The sometimes deceptive advantage of reading history backwards makes it difficult to appreciate that Church’ (the Church of England) ‘as it appeared to its contemporaries and defenders and even as it evidently … was.’
This is undoubtedly true for those who see the Church of England through the nineteenth-century eyes of the Oxford Movement or English nonconformity or the twentieth-century eyes of secular sociologists. By progressing from the Elizabethan Puritan movement to the Jacobean church Collinson has produced a series of splendid tapestries that has helped us see ‘the intrinsic merits’ of the Jacobean church before the ‘post revolutionary history of a Church of England erected on narrower and more exclusive principles deceived historians’.
In his preface to these memorable Ford Lectures Collinson refers to the destruction of ‘the archaeological’ remains of the Jacobean church interiors due to the ‘Victorian restorations’. It is to the reconstruction of these scattered remains that this essay is addressed.
When James VI of Scotland heard that he was also James I of England he was, said the man who brought him the news, ‘like a poor man bereft wandering forty years in the wilderness and barren soil and now arrived at to the land of promise’. But he was still king of the wilderness and barren soil, and he brought to his rule of the land of promise the skills and presuppositions he had acquired during his considerable time of rule over Scotland.
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- Religion, Culture and Society in Early Modern BritainEssays in Honour of Patrick Collinson, pp. 182 - 208Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994
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