King James I's love of books
I knew sundry things about James I but not that he was a book-lover. Writing in his Anatomy of Melancholy, the Oxford scholar Robert Burton (1577-1640) left us an unexpected portrait of the king who contrasts the claustral office of the monarch with the freedom of the life of a scholar. Burton recalls that
King James 1605, when he came to see our Univers…
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