![]() This was the world that created the King James Bible. ![]() Jacobean England was both more godly and less godly than it had ever been, and the entire culture was drawn taut between the polarities. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson and Bacon of the Gunpowder Plot the worst outbreak of the plague England had ever seen Arcadian landscapes murderous, toxic slums and, above all, of sometimes overwhelming religious passion. In God's Secretaries, Adam Nicolson gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the accession and ambition of the first Stuart king of the scholars who labored for seven years to create his Bible of the influences that shaped their work and of the beliefs that colored their world, immersing us in an age whose greatest monument is not a painting or a building, but a book.Ī network of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. ![]()
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