Gods Secretaries - Adam Nicolson
Category: History
Narrator: Clive Chafer
Tags: History
Gods Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible (UNABRIDGED) by Adam Nicolson Narrated by Clive Chafer, LENGTH: 8 hrs and 39 mins RELEASE DATE: 05-30-12 PUBLISHER: Blackstone Audio, Inc., Publishers Summary, A net of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the Gunpowder Plot; the worst outbreak of the plague England had ever seen; arcadian landscapes; murderous, toxic slums; and, above all, sometimes overwhelming religious passion. Jacobean England was both more godly and less godly than it had ever been, and the entire culture was drawn taut between the polarities., This was the world that created the King James Bible. It is the greatest work of English prose ever written, and it is no coincidence that the translation was made at the moment Englishness and the English language had come into its first passionate maturity. Boisterous, elegant, subtle, majestic, finely nuanced, sonorous, and musical, the English of Jac
