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Mann A (2025) James VII in Biography and Autobiography: The First and Forgotten Jacobite. In: Falkirk Muir Papers 2024. Falkirk Muir Trust Conference, Falkirk, 01.2024. Falkirk: The Falkirk Muir (1746), pp. 11-20. https://www.falkirkmuir1746.scot/2024Papers
Abstract
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King James VII of Scotland. He is of course the father of Jacobitism, the origin of the label – James, Latin Jacobus and so Jacobitism. Even though I wrote and taught about Jacobitims long before my biography of James was published almost a decade ago James VII, Duke and King of Scots, 1633-1701 (John Donald, 2014), I’m essentially a
Restoration historian, contrasting James more with his brother Charles than with his son and grandson. Biography is a problem and there is always the fear of becoming the person you write about. There is a considerable amount of negative history written about James – failure, cowardice, delusion, stupidity etc. F.C. Turner published a good, source-rich biography of James in 1948 in which he judged his easy-to-read handwriting a sign of low IQ. God help them, my former students must have thought me a genius as they struggled to read my comments on their essays. I for one delight in James’s hand
being easy on the eye.
Status | Published |
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Publication date | 31/01/2025 |
URL | http://hdl.handle.net/1893/37184 |
Publisher | The Falkirk Muir (1746) |
Publisher URL | https://www.falkirkmuir1746.scot/2024Papers |
Place of publication | Falkirk |
ISBN | 9781036907709 |
Conference | Falkirk Muir Trust Conference |
Conference location | Falkirk |
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