To open its season, The Newberry Consort, an early music ensemble, performed “I Tremble Not” at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on Saturday. It featured music from Jacobean England. The concert ...

Much of what’s popularly known about the Jacobean era, or the period of King James I’s rule spanning from 1603 to 1625, is its cultural impact.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If you aren’t familiar with Jacobean dress, it’s time to get into it. As costume designer Annie ...

Like the sex-fueled, late-2000s series “The Tudors” before it, the new seven-part period drama from British playwright D.C Moore is heavy on court intrigue, murderous plots and erotic love scenes.

This erraticism is spurred by a vulnerability in King James that Tony Curran, who portrays the Jacobean era monarch in Starz's 17th-century period drama series, "Mary & George," found especially ...

So I stopped working out while I was doing the show, because I didn’t want to look as if I was pumping iron in the Jacobean era. It’s quite liberating, getting involved in those kinds of scenes.

The story of George Villiers and his mother Mary's impact on the Jacobean era of English history is one, per Mary & George EP Liza Marshall, that was "whitewashed out of history," given King James ...

The second of the Bourbons, he ruled from 1610 to 1643 (a reign that roughly parallels England’s Early Jacobean period), generated the power that elevated France into the splendor of the baroque.

In the threads that blur between past and present, a little magic can find its way through to share an echo of history.

The seven-part series is set in the early 1600s, aka the Jacobean era, the time immediately following Elizabeth I’s death and the end of the Tudor dynasty.

The Jacobean-era period piece sees the mother-son duo enter the royal court of King James VI and I and latch onto power and influence by hook or by crook.

Holding George fresh from the womb, Mary instructs the Jacobean-era doulas around her to leave him umbilically attached "for now". As the show goes on you start to wonder if the cord was ever cut.