George Buchanan

Political Thought in Early Modern Britain and Europe
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7546-6238-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 684 g

George 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Erskine, Caroline

Mason, Roger A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations, List of Figures, Notes on Contributors, Preface, Introduction: George Buchanan: Influence, Legacy, Reputation, Part One: Buchanan in Reformation Britain, 1. From Buchanan to Blaeu: The Politics of Scottish Chorography, 1582–1654, 2. Performance, Print and Politics in George Buchanan’s Ane Detectioun of the duinges of Marie Quene of Scottes, 3. Spenser and Buchanan, 4. George Buchanan and the Patriot Cause, Part Two: Buchanan in Europe, 5. Tyrants and Translations: Dutch Interpretations of George Buchanan’s Political Thought, 6. Buchanan and the German Monarchomachs, 7. The Reception of Buchanan in Northern Europe in the Seventeenth Century, Part Three: Buchanan and Revolutionary Britain, 8. The Ciceronian Theory of Tyrannicide from Buchanan to Milton, 9. George Buchanan and the Scottish Covenanters, 10. Buchanan in Hell: Sir James Turner’s Civil War Royalism, 11. George Buchanan, English Whigs and Royalists, and the Canon of Political Theory, Part Four: Buchanan and the Enlig htenment, 12. Scotland’s Fabulous Past: Charles Mackie and George Buchanan, 13. Assassination Principles in Scottish Political Culture: Buchanan to Hogg, 14. George Buchanan and Revolution Principles, 1688–1788, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Caroline Erskine, University of Aberdeen, UK, and Professor Roger A. Mason, University of St Andrews, UK