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A net of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This is the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the Gunpowder Storyline; the most detrimental outbreak of the plague England had ever seen; arcadian landscapes; murderous, toxic slums; and, most importantly, sometimes overwhelming religious passion. Jacobean England was both more godly and less godly than it had have you been, and the whole culture was drawn taut between your polarities. This was the planet that created the Ruler James Bible. It's the very best work of English prose ever written, which is no coincidence that the translation was made at this time "Englishness" and the English language had come into its first keen maturity. Boisterous, fashionable, refined, majestic, finely nuanced, sonorous, and musical, the English of Jacobean England has a more encompassing idea of its reach and scope than any before or since. It is a form of the language that drips with potency and sensitivity. This, with all its issues, explains the reserve. The sponsor and guide of the whole Bible job was the ruler himself, the fantastic, unsightly, and profoundly peace-loving Wayne the Sixth of Scotland and First of England. Trained almost from birth to control the rivalries of politics factions at home, Wayne saw in England the chance for sort of irenic Eden over that your new translation of the Bible was to preside. It was to be always a Bible for everyone, as God's lieutenant on earth, he would utilize it to unify his kingdom. The imagine Jacobean peace, guaranteed by an elision of royal vitality and divine glory, lies behind a Bible of outstanding sophistication and everlasting literary vitality. Adam Nicolson is the author of Seamanship, God's Secretaries, and Seize the Flames. He has won both the Somerset Maugham and William Heinemann honours, and he lives along with his family at Sissinghurst Castle in England.
