James III

by Norman Macdougall

James III is the most enigmatic of the Stewart kings of Scotland. Variously characterised as artistic, peace-loving, morbidly suspicious, treacherous, pious, lecherous and lazy, King James was much criticised by contemporaries and later chroniclers for his failure to do his job in the manner expected of him, and particularly for his reliance on low-born favourites to the exclusion of his 'natural' counsellors, the nobility. Specific complaints included...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 190460787X
• ISBN13: 9781904607878
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: John Donald Publishers
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"