Pori
Pori , Swed. Björneborg, city (1998 pop. 76,375), Western Finland prov., SW Finland, near the mouth of the Kokemaënjoki River. Timber and metals are exported, and chemical and wood products are manufactured. A deepwater harbor complex was opened in 1985 for the importation of oil and coal, but due to silting the city has become farther from the harbor waters. Pori was chartered in 1564 and was initially dominated by the Hanseatic League . By 1840 the city had the largest commercial fleet in Finland.
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Emblematica: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...rather daringly) on James I's Basilikon Doron (Bodleian MS Rawlinson Poetry 146...issues and concerns of the three Basilikon Doron Emblem Books: Peacham's relationship with James 1, his use of his Basilikon Doron, his ad
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The English Emblem Tradition: Vol. V: Henry Peacham's Manuscript Emblem Books.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...manuscripts based (perhaps rather daringly) on James I's Basilikon Doron (Bodleian MS Rawlinson Poetry 146, BL MSS Royal...grows out of, the issues and concerns of the three Basilikon Doron Emblem Books: Peacham's relationship with James...
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Deviceful Settings: The English Renaissance Emblem and its Contexts.
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...later that of Prince Henry, for whom James wrote Basilikon Doron. Young shows that Peacham's three manuscript emblem books are related not only to James's Basilikon Doron, but also (especially in case of the heraldic emblems...
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The Mental World of Jacobean Court.
Magazine article from: The Historian; 1/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...different perspectives. Two of these are worth mentioning here. Jenny Wormald explores the Scottish setting for Basilikon Doron and The Trew Law of Free Monarchies and argues persuasively that James, in the tradition of Marcus Aurelius and King...
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Shakespeare and Child's Play: Performing Lost Boys on Stage and Screen.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Bulletin; 6/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Shakespeare's recent performance history. Early modern texts, including school books, prayer books and James I's Basilikon Doron (1599), and performance practices, such as the apprentice player system and royal pageantry, are examined alongside...
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Ancient rituals bow to modern manners
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 3/9/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...mannered recluse and a sodomite, he was also hailed as a poet and thinker, the author of learned tomes such as the Basilikon Doron. As was common throughout polite society in Europe, men bowed before the king and their wives curtsied, and woe...
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Bringing the dead to life
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 10/5/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...gods' representatives upon earth. The closest parallel might be with the theories of James VI and I expounded in Basilikon Doron, a book which opens with the sonnet: God gives not Kings the style of Gods in vaine For on his throne his scepter...
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England's Internal Colonies: Class, Capital, and the Literature of Early Modern English Colonialism.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...terms of borderlands and the vagrants and gypsies who lived there. Here, Netzloff makes use of texts like James's Basilikon Doron (1599) and Ben Jonson's The Gypsies Metamorphosed (1621) to explore identity and boundaries. Chapter 5 discusses...
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The Performing Heir in Jonson's Jacobean Masques.(playwright Ben Jonson)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...family to the patriarchal king. The quintessential proof of the Stuart analogy between father and monarch is James's Basilikon Doron, the record of his "fatherly authoritie" published for the nation, but originally written as advice to four...
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The travels of ideology: Niccolo Machiavelli at the court of James VI.
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...in 1592-93, or it might have been undertaken as part of Fowler's involvement with James's composition of the Basilikon Doron. The last section of the paper analyses Fowler's dedication of the work to the Laird of Buccleuch, and the circumstances...
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Basilikon doron
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Basilikon doron (1598), a manual on the practice...view of kingly power. James wrote the Basilikon doron for his own enjoyment and initially...accession to the English throne, when the Basilikon quickly became a best seller and fuelled...
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Basilikon Doron
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Basilikon Doron [Gr.,=royal gift], book written by James VI of Scotland (subsequently James I of England) as a guide for the conduct of...
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Scottish Texts Society, the
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...of general literary interest, such as The Kingis Quair , Barbour's Bruce , Gawin Douglas's Eneados , and the Basilikon Doron of James I , and the poems of Dunbar , Henryson , Drummond of Hawthornden , and Sir D. Lindsay . It has also produced...
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Henry, prince of Wales
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...impressed the crowds by his fine horsemanship and erect bearing. He had absorbed the precepts laid down in his father's Basilikon doron , which not only stressed the patriarchal nature of kingship but encouraged self-restraint and modesty, only to...
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James VI
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
...moderates and reviving the office of bishop. He also used his learning to buttress his position. The Trew Law and the Basilikon doron , both written in the 1590s, proclaimed that kings were the images of God upon earth and should be venerated as such...
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