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Patterson, W. B. King James VI and I and the Reunion of Chri
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The sixteenth century, like the fifth, eleventh, and twentieth, was characterized by religious schism. Protestants and Roman Catholics in Western Europe all recognized their manifold separation from each other in belief and practice, while simultaneously defending their own perceived membership in the true church. Ending the grievous disunity which had fueled or exacerbated decades of European wars was a life-long aim of Scotland's and England's monarch James VI and I (1566-1625). W. B. Patterson's vigorous and persuasive work, depicting James as a "shrewd, determined, flexible, and resourceful political leader," makes two significant historical contributions: it carefully and accurately distills a generation of scholarship which has recons
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