Rethinking the Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland

STEVEN J. REID is Professor of Early Modern Scottish History and Culture at the University of Glasgow, UK. Steve Boardman is Professor in Medieval Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh. He has written monographs on the Early Stewart kings and the history of the Clan Campbell, edited several books, and published articles on various aspects of the political and cultural life of late medieval Scotland. MICHAEL BROWN is Professor of Scottish History, University of St Andrews.

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Part I: Memory and Identity: Mason and the Historians
Introduction: Re-thinking the Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland: Roger A. Mason's Work and Legacy - Steven J. Reid
1. Contesting the Reformation: Roger Mason's ('sufficiently plausible') debt to David Hay Fleming and Andrew Lang - Catriona M.M. Macdonald

Part II: Kingship and Political Culture: From Medieval to Renaissance
2. A New Perspective on John of Fordun's Chronica Gentis Scotorum as a Medieval 'national history' - Dauvit Broun
3. 'A Traitor to the Kingdom': Robert Bruce and the Use of Treason in Fourteenth-Century Scotland - Michael H. Brown

4. James and John: James I (1406-37), Monastic Reform, Kingship, and the Cult of John the Baptist - Stephen Boardman
5. Sent Abroad to Talk for Their Country: Two Examples of Early Scottish Humanist Diplomacy - Nicola Royan
6. 'O wretched king!': Ireland, Denmark-Norway, and Kingship in the Reign of James V - Alison Cathcart

Part III: Literature, Politics and Religion: Renaissance and Reformation
7. 'The Time of Reformation': The Evolution of Early Modern Protestant Memories of the Scottish Reformation - Bess Rhodes
8. James and John: the Stormy Relationship between James Stewart, Regent Moray and John Knox - Jane E. A. Dawson
9. A Disciple of Buchanan in the Marian Civil War: Thomas Maitland's 'The Consecration of James VI, King of Scots' ('Jacobi VI, Scotorum Regis Inauguratio') - Steven J. Reid
10. "Long lyf and welth vith veilfair and great gloir": New Year and the Giving of Advice at the Stewart Court - Kate McClune
11. John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, and the Design of Mary, Queen of Scot's Defence - Tricia A. McElroy
12. Alexander Hume's Hymnes or Sacred Songs - Joanna Martin
13. The Dutch in Scotland: The Diplomatic Visit of the States General upon the Baptism of Prince Henry - Esther Mijers

Afterword: The Renaissance of Roger Mason - Sally Mapstone

Roger A. Mason: A Select Bibliography
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