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Basilikon Doron (bəsĭ`lĭkən dô`rən) [Gr.,=royal gift], book written by James VI of Scotland (subsequently James I of England) as a guide for the conduct of his son Henry when he became king. The work was completed in manuscript in 1598 and published the following year. James warned Henry of meddlesome ministers and expounded the doctrine of the divine right of kings. Henry died in 1612 before he could succeed his father.
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The strength of Shuger's analysis becomes evident when she looks at Measure for Measure's duke, an example of a "sacred monarch" whose type is illustrated in such texts as Desiderius Erasmus' Education of a Christian Prince, Martin Bucer's De regno Christi, and James I's Basilicon Doron. For example, the original marginalia of the First Booke of the Basilicon Doron "Of a Kings Christian Duetie towards God" alerted the reader that "The Trew Ground of Good Government" lay in the "double Bond of a Prince to God" (12, fn. Her fullest explanation and application of a model "ideologeme" locates Jacobean women and men authors within a set of correspondences based on James I's Basilicon Doron. |
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