dukeofbookingham:

backpacksandblazers:

witchedybitchedy:

ruby–wednesday:

thecharge:

ariaste:

margotkim:

This is the greatest progression of events I have ever read, where’s my historical gay romance novel about this

KING JAMES, CAN YOU CHILL?

Local King Cannot Stop Promoting His Boyfriend

where’s the lush period drama about this series of events?

fun thing about king James, this guy was fairly public about his bf (more public than what was acceptable). He threw lots of extravagant parties with his man on his arm. It pissed off the church obviously so to get them off his back, he’s the one that ordered the third translation of the Bible from Hebrew to English (the King James Version aka the Authorized Version) so the Bible every hot blooded all American Christian reads today was literally just written so a very gay king could fuck his boyfriend in peace.

A chapter of my dissertation is on James and, specifically, the Jacobean Church. I don’t want to throw WitchedyBitchedy under the bus—so I’m not tagging them, and I hope no one else does, either—but almost everything they’ve said here is completely untrue.

James was bisexual, not gay. However, these terms are anachronistic and this post (in its entirety) fails utterly to account for the fact that understandings of sexuality were radically different in the seventeenth century. James having a male lover is more an issue with the contemporary church—especially American evangelical churches—than it ever was in James’s lifetime.

Moreover, James’s sexuality had nothing to do with the creation of the Authorised Bible. The KJV emerged out of the conflict between varying factions within the Church of England—variously labeled the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians, the Anglicans and Puritans, the Conformists and Nonconformists, etc. Their primary feud was over church government, but James was able to align their interests in the production of a new English Bible. This was because the most popular English Bible at the time, the so-called Geneva Bible, was hated by both James and the clergy. James, though, had the Bible translated in committees that were composed equally of Anglicans and Puritans, which meant that neither side could complain about it.

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