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Issue 29 – December 2025

Reframing King James VI and I Edited by Kate Anderson, Jemma Field, and Catriona Murray.

Drawing. A colourful drawing on white paper showing a man on a white, decorated horse wearing a crown and a royal robe, being led to the right of the image by another man in a black cape and patterned coat. Behind the horse are two more men wearing fitted coats and knee-length skirts. Handwritten text runs along the top and bottom of the drawing. — “James VI and I with three attendants going to Parliament” (dithered detail), from Michael van Meer’s album amicorum, 1614–15, pen and brown ink, watercolour with gold on paper, 13 × 19 cm. Collection of The University of Edinburgh (La.III.283, fol. 159v). Digital image courtesy of The University of Edinburgh.

INTRODUCTION

Introduction: The Visual and Material Worlds of James VI and I

By Jemma Field Catriona Murray

ARTICLE

“Certane Picturis of His Majesties Visage”: Tracing James VI’s Succession Campaign through Visual and Material Display and Dissemination

By Kate Anderson

ARTICLE

Painting the Queen Black: Paint, Portraiture, and Seeing Queen Anna as a Daughter of Niger

By Mia L. Bagneris

ARTICLE

Visualising James VI and I in Continental Europe

By Susan Doran David Hasberg Zirak-Schmidt Paulina Kewes

ARTICLE

Dressing the Stuarts: The Sartorial Politics of Mourning and Matrimony, 1612–1613

By Jemma Field

ARTICLE

“Unseemly Caresses”: The Queer Style of James VI and I

By James Loxley

ARTICLE

Distant Relations: The Palatine Family, Propaganda, and Print in Early Stuart Britain

By Catriona Murray

ARTICLE

His Majesty in His Closet: Chapel Closets and the Construction of the Jacobean Royal Image

By Oscar Patton

ARTICLE

“From the Chimney to the Chamber”: Recovering a Jacobean Satirical Print

By Helen Pierce

ARTICLE

“May They Associate”: Decoding an Illuminated Book Designed for King James VI in Paris by Agents of Mary, Queen of Scots

By Alexandra Plane

ARTICLE

Limnings of James VI and I and the Jacobean World in Alba Amicorum

By Sophie Ninetta Rhodes

ARTICLE

Prince Henry’s Feast: Anglo-Dutch Relations and European Politics in Early 1610

By R. Malcolm Smuts

ARTICLE

James VI and I’s Banqueting Houses: A Transatlantic Perspective

By Lauren Working

ONE OBJECT

“A Gift with Strings Attached”: Deciphering a Jacobean Watch

Convened by Kate Anderson

CONVERSATION PIECE

Papering over Division? James VI and I’s Misleading Materialisation of Union

Convened by Anna Groundwater Catriona Murray