George Buchanan, Humanist and Reformer
Author: Peter Hume Brown
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 430
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Author: Peter Hume Brown
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 430
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Published: 1890
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Published: 1907
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Caroline Erskine
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-22
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1317128710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeorge Buchanan (1506-82) was the most distinguished Scottish humanist of the sixteenth century with an unparalleled contemporary reputation as a Latin poet, playwright, historian and political theorist. However, while his contemporary importance as the scourge of Mary Queen of Scots and advocate of popular rebellion has long been recognised, this volume represents the first attempt to explore the subsequent influence of his ideas and his contested reputation as a political ideologue and cultural icon. Featuring a wide-ranging selection of essays by an international cast of established and younger scholars, the volume explores Buchanan's legacy as an historian and political theorist in Britain and Europe in the two centuries following his death, with particular emphasis on the reception of his remarkably radical views on popular sovereignty and political assassination. Divided into four parts, the volume covers the immediate impact and reception of his writings in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Britain; the wider Northern European context in which his thought was influential; the engagement with his political ideas in the course of the seventeenth-century British constitutional struggles; and the influence of his ideas as well as the changing nature of his reputation through the eighteenth century and beyond. The introduction to the volume not only reviews the material in the body of the collection, but also reflects on the use and abuse of Buchanan's ideas in the early modern period and the methodological issues of influence and reputation raised by the contributors. Such a reassessment of Buchanan and his legacy is long overdue and this volume will be welcomed by all scholars with an interest in the political and cultural history of early modern Britain and Europe.
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter Hume Brown
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2012-08-01
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9781290846134
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Author: Peter Hume 1849-1918 Brown
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Published: 2016-08-26
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9781362553076
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Author: Peter Hume Brown
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-11-25
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780331950182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from George Buchanan, Humanist and Reformer: A Biography William Hamilton and Mr. James Hannay but there is now a special reason for the work they contem plated. Of the seventy-six years of Buchanan's life, more than thirty were spent abroad and this period of his career has hitherto been all but an entire blank. Recent histories, however, of the very institutions with which, during those years, Buchanan was mainly connected, bring vividly before us the world in which he moved, as well as the aims and interests of men of his type during the sixteenth century. Read in the light of this fresh knowledge, his writings acquire an entirely new interest and significance as the expression of his character and genius. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Ernest R. Holloway III
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-06-22
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 900420962X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe intellectual legacy of Andrew Melville (1545-1622) as a leader of the Renaissance and a promoter of humanism in Scotland has been obscured by "the Melville legend." In an effort to dispense with 'the Melville of popular imagination' and recover 'the Melville of history,' this work situates his life and thought within the broader context of the northern European Renaissance and French humanism and critically re-evaluates the primary historical documents of the period, namely James Melville's Autobiography and Diary and the Melvini epistolae. By considering Melville as a humanist, university reformer, ecclesiastical statesman, and man, an effort has been made to determine his contribution to the flowering of the Renaissance and the growth of humanism in Scotland during the early modern period.
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Published: 1910
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