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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"King James"”.
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King James' Daemonologie and Scottish Witchcraft Trials
This study examines the impacts of King James’ <em>Daemonologie</em> on how witches were identified, prosecuted, and executed in Scotland during the early modern period. It is an analytical look at how the intervention of King James during the North Berwick trials influenced the writing of …
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Royal Self-Fashioning: King James VI and his Demonology
King James is one of the most widely studied royal historical figures of the early modern period. This dissertation examines King James VI’s Daemonologie as it relates to the themes of masculinity and self-fashioning. By analysing James, through his demonological treatise, I illuminate James’s …
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King James holds court: A qualitative examination of the athlete brand community phenomenon
… with purposefully selected members of a LeBron James fan club and analyzed related documents associated with the studied athlete brand community. Four prevalent themes emerged from the analysis of the interviews including athlete brand community adoption, culture, ideological uniformity, and …
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The impact of King James II on the departments of the royal household
… the thesis are the political activities of the king's servants and the administration of the departments of the royal household during the reign of James II. In order to provide essential background, it does not confine itself just to that reign and so contains new information about the court of …
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The Scottish literary renaissance reborn: a re-evaluation of the cultural directives of King James VI, as defined in his 'Essayes of a Prentise in the Divine Art of Poesie' (1584)
… critical lexicon with which to analyse James VI’s cultural revival. Bawcutt condemns the imprudent scholarly acceptance, and the ensuing promulgation, of Shire’s ‘Castalian Band’ theoretic as nothing more than a fabrication of a scholarly fiction which culminates in a widespread …
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Sounding sacred: The adoption of biblical archaisms in the Book of Mormon and other 19th century texts
… it exhibits many linguistic features of the King James translation of the Bible. Such stylistic imitation has been little studied, though a notable exception is Sigelman & Jacoby (1996).</p> <p>Three hypotheses are considered: that this is a feature of 19th century religious texts, and the …
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All This the World Well Knows: a symphonic cantata in Sonnets and Proverbs for mixed chorus, four solo voices, and orchestra
… Shakespeare's Dark Lady sonnets and from the King James Bible's book of Proverbs in a loose narrative of love, betrayal, and reconciliation. The composition's pitch material includes microtonality that arises from the just intonation of sonorities derived from the harmonic series. In passages …
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The influence of the Book of Common Prayer on the prose style of Samuel Johnson's prayers
… of English literature, the greatness of the King James Bible and its influence on all of English literature since 1611 have been pointed out. Unquestionably, all men of letters in the English language since that time have known of the King James Bible; and many of them may have been decidedly …
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"Invidiam viam aut faciam": "I will find a way or make one" The poetic practice of political counsel in the courts of Elizabeth I and James I
… responded to the efforts of Elizabeth I and James I to restrict the power of the aristocracy by claiming a right to offer counsel to their monarch. Though no one of them could claim a position from which to offer direct counsel, they each exploited the Petrarchan discourse of love to assert …
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Third person narrator for reader engagement craft paper with Courtesan witches creative writing
… whose mother burned at the stake and who thwarts King James I of England, an infamous witch hunter.
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Biblical Family Systems
… Bowenian, and narrative, the family of King David, as presented in the first and second Books of Samuel and the beginning of the first Book of Kings, is investigated and explored. Using the King James Version of the Bible as the main text, consideration is given to what each theory has …
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The religious origins of the glorious revolution
… of the heir apparent to the English throne, James, Duke of York, later James II, had a direct impact on the social, political, and religious life of a predominately Protestant, anti-Catholic England in the latter decades of the seventeenth century. James's religion and the prospect of his …
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An Analysis of Kirkwall's Royal Charters
In 1486, King James III of Scotland gave Kirkwall the status of a royal burgh along with a grant of lands and special privileges consistent with this status. While Kirkwall would eventually operate as a typical Scottish burgh, there are some unique features associated with its charters making it …
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And the Word Became Flesh: Visual Thoughts on the Book of John
… verses from the Book of John, as found in the King James translation of the Holy Bible. These art works often rely on the addition of scriptural text to an image. The second suite is a collection of works without text inspired by the creation of the art works from the first suite. Together, …
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Plaine, simple, short, and profitable’: The Theology of A Short Sum of the Whole Catechism (or Craig’s Catechism) and its Place in Scottish Reformed Catechesis from Geneva to Westminster
… in Aberdeen, and as a chaplain in Holyrood for King James VI. He is best known for writing the King’s Confession in 1581, yet today his catechetical writing is often overlooked. This study seeks to fill part of that gap.<br/>The central thesis of this study is that the theology of Craig’s …
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Balancing Blood, Balancing Books: Medicine, Commerce, and the Royal Court in Seventeenth-Century England
… courtiers, and that it emerged at the courts of King James and King Charles, alongside a new conceptualizations of commercial circulation. As a brother to merchants and a physician to kings during the commercial crises of the 1620s, Harvey was exposed to ways of thinking about circulation that he …
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A World of Reading:An Intertextual Study of Janet Frame's Novels
… of her texts. I examine Frame’s use of the King James Bible, focussing on the less considered area of Frame’s use of the Bible’s poetry, before analysing her references to key Shakespeare plays. Finally I explore Frame’s allusion to folklore, European and Maori myth and oral literature. I …
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The Bishops' Bible and the Church of England, 1560-1640
… in use in churches until the publication of the King James Bible in 1611. Widely rejected as a ‘bad’ translation by historians, this dissertation seeks to understand its creation, use, and place in the Elizabethan Church. The first part of this dissertation explores the making of the Bishops’ …
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Assessing the Role of the Transient Receptor Potential Melastatin 3 (TRPM3) Ion Channel in Visceral Sensation
Abdominal pain is a significant clinical problem impacting many individuals including patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Current therapeutics for IBD-related pain include opioids which are addictive and associated with increased mortality in IBD patients. Thus, novel mechanisms for …
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