Subverting Scotland's Past
Subverting Scotland's Past

Author: Colin Kidd

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-12-18

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9780521520195

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This book examines how the intellectual developments of the Scottish Enlightenment undermined Scotland's sense of nationalism.

Scottish Independence and the Idea of Britain
Scottish Independence and the Idea of Britain

Author: Dauvit Broun

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2013-08-20

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0748685200

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This book offers a fresh perspective on the question of Scotland's relationship with Britain. It challenges the standard concept of the Scots as an ancient nation whose British identity only emerged in the early modern era.

A Dialogue on the Law of Kingship Among the Scots
A Dialogue on the Law of Kingship Among the Scots

Author: Roger A. Mason

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 135196254X

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George Buchanan (1506-82) was one of the most distinguished humanists of the Northern European Renaissance. Hailed by his contemporaries as the greatest Latin poet of his age, he is chiefly remembered today as a radical political theorist whose Dialogus, first published in Edinburgh in 1579, justified the deposition of Mary, Queen of Scots in 1567 on the basis of a theory of popular sovereignty, which vested in the people the right to resist, depose and kill tyrannical monarchs. Immensely influential in radical circles both in Britain and on the Continent, it made a notable contribution to the debates over the nature and location of sovereignty which would finally bear fruit in the writings of John Locke. This critical edition and translation of the Dialogus makes available for the first time a modern scholarly version of one of the key texts in the history of early modern British political thought.