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Article: The Accession of James I: Historical and Cultural Consequences.(Book review)
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- December 22, 2008
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The Accession of James I: Historical and Cultural Consequences. Edited by Glenn Burgess, Rowland Wymer, and Jason Lawrence. (New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. xxvii, 215. $79.99.)
Conferences and their consequent published papers are frequently troubled by a lack of cohesion; however, the four-hundredth anniversary of James I's accession offered a sharp focus for the 2003 conference in Hull from which these essays come. The central concerns are admirably laid out in the editors' introduction and in Conrad Russell's opening essay. Any accession in the early modern period brought with it the possibility of abrupt cultural and political change, but ...