A network of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England.
It is the greatest work of English prose ever written, and it is no coincidence that the translation was made.
This was the world that created the King James Bible.
Jacobean England was both more godly and less godly than the country had ever been, and the entire culture was drawn taut between these polarities.
This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the era of the Gunpowder Plot and the worst outbreak of the plague.
A network of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England