The (in)capacity of the House of Stuart to provide competent royal government, in both Scotland and England, has been a staple topic in the historiography of the British Isles. Despite the increasing volume and sophistication of recent research in this area, the long shadow of past analytical habits of mind still colors modern approaches to the subject. This has been the case with King James VI and I, as with other Stuart sovereigns. Scholarly accounts of the Jacobean period have been affected by a persistent Anglocentricity in this field. Such attitudes have done little for the broader topic of post-Reformation politics and threaten to close several available avenues of research and interpretation. Here it is argued that accounts of Jacobean politics need to be located in their appropriate contexts in order to avoid presentist distortion in future research and publication on this topic and related issues of the period.

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重访詹姆斯六世和我的声誉

斯图亚特王朝在苏格兰和英格兰提供称职的皇家政府的（无）能力一直是不列颠群岛史学中的主要话题。尽管最近该领域的研究越来越多，越来越复杂，但过去分析思维习惯的长长阴影仍然影响着现代研究该主题的方法。与其他斯图亚特君主一样，国王詹姆斯六世和我就是这种情况。对詹姆士一世时期的学术描述受到这一领域持续存在的盎格鲁中心主义的影响。这种态度对后宗教改革政治这一更广泛的话题几乎没有作用，并有可能关闭一些可用的研究和解释途径。