Contents: Reading James writing: the subjects of royal writings in Jacobean Britain / Kevin Sharpe -- "Enregistrate speech": stratagems of monarchic writing in the work of James IV and I / Daniel Fischlin and Mark Fortier -- "Best of poets, best of kings": King James VI and I and the scene of monarchic verse / Peter C. Herman -- "The fountain and very being of truth": James VI, poetic invention, and national identity / Carolyn Ives and David J. Parkinson -- The Amatoria of James VI: loving by the Reulis / Morna R. Fleming -- Discovering desire in the Amatoria of James VI / Sarah M. Dunnigan --"Pairt of my taill is yet untolde": James VI and I, the Phoenix, and the royal gift / Simon Wortham -- "If proclamations will not serve": the late manuscript poetry of James I and the culture of libel / Curtis Perry -- Britain's Solomon: King James and the law / Louis A. Knafla -- Equity and ideas: Coke, Ellesmere, and James VI and I / Mark Fortier -- King James VI and I and John Selden: two voices on history and the constitution / Johann P. Sommerville -- "Precious stinke": James I's A counterblaste to tobacco / Sandra J. Bell -- Writing King James's sexuality / David M. Bergeron -- The making of Rex pacificus: James VI and I and the problem of peace in an age of religious war / Malcolm Smuts -- "To eate the flesh of kings": James VI and I, apocalypse, nation, and sovereignty / Daniel Fischlin -- James I and King David: Jacobean iconography and its legacy / John N. King -- The reception of King James's psalter / James Doelman -- Reading and misreading King James 1622-42: responses to the Letter and directions touching preaching and preachers / Joseph Marshall
