James V
Subtitle: the personal rule, 1528-1542
By: Jamie Cameron ; edited by Norman Macdougal.
Series: Stewart Dynasty in Scotland
Publisher: Tuckwell Press; Tuckwell Press Ltd
Published: 1998
Place of publication: East Lothian, Scotland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Description: "Jamie Cameron concentrates on James V's style of government and relations with his nobility, and challenges the widely held view of a vindictive and irrational king, motivated largely by greed, who antagonised most of his leading magnates and met his just deserts when they refused to support him in 1542. This book offers a different view, and presents us with a rounded picture of a king whose approach to government, in spite of some personal defects, closely resembles that of his supposedly more popular father; and, like James IV himself, retained impressive magnate support to the end of his reign."--Jacket.