Sixteenth-Century Scotland: Essays in Honour of Michael Lynch

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-16825-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 166, 478 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 930 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectua

This collection of essays demonstrates the vitality of the political, cultural and religious history of Scotland in the era of the Renaissance and Reformation. It includes essays on politics, religion and towns, and on the literature and culture of the royal court and the common people. The essays all illuminate the ‘long sixteenth century’, c.1500-1650, which has been established as a distinct period.

Contributors include: Sharon Adams, Steve Boardman, Jane E. A. Dawson, E. Patricia Dennison, Helen Dingwall, David Ditchburn, Julian Goodare, Ruth Grant, Theo van Heijnsbergen, Amy L. Juhala, Roderick J. Lyall, Alasdair A. MacDonald, Alan R. MacDonald, Maureen M. Meikle, Jamie Reid-Baxter, Laura A. M. Stewart, Andrea Thomas, Jenny Wormald, and Michael J. Yellowlees.

Publications by Michael Lynch:

Edited by A.A. MacDonald, Michael Lynch and Ian B. Cowan, The Renaissance in Scotland, ISBN: 978 90 04 10097 8

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goodare, Julian

MacDonald, Alasdair A.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Goodare, Julian

MacDonald, Alasdair A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors

Introduction, Julian Goodare & Alasdair A. MacDonald

1. Royal Finance and Regional Rebellion in the Reign of James IV, Steve Boardman
2. Crown Imperial: Coronation Ritual and Regalia in the Reign of James V, Andrea Thomas
3. ‘Saints at the door don’t make miracles’? The Contrasting Fortunes of Scottish Pilgrimage, c.1450-1550, David Ditchburn
4. Advice to a Princess: the Literary Articulation of a Religious, Political and Cultural Programme for Mary Queen of Scots, 1562, Theo van Heijnsbergen
5. The Conference at Leith: Ecclesiastical Finance and Politics in the 1570s, Sharon Adams
6. The Noble and the Bastard: the Earl of Argyll and the Law of Divorce in Reformation Scotland, Jane E. A. Dawson
7. Robin Hood in Scotland, E. Patricia Dennison
8. The Emergence of an Elite Craft: the Incorporation of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1505-c.1680, Helen M. Dingwall
9. The Making of the Anglo-Scottish Alliance of 1586, Ruth Grant
10. Kinship, Kingship and Latinity: the Surprising Career of James Halkerston, Roderick J. Lyall
11. Best of Enemies: Andrew Melville and Patrick Adamson, c.1574-1592, Alan R. MacDonald
12. Anna of Denmark’s Coronation and Entry into Edinburgh, 1590: Cultural, Religious and Diplomatic Perspectives, Maureen M. Meikle
13. Father William Crichton’s Estimate of the Scottish Nobility, 1595, Michael J. Yellowlees
14. The Attempted Scottish Coup of 1596, Julian Goodare
15. An Advantageous Alliance: Edinburgh and the Court of James VI, Amy L. Juhala
16. The Headaches of Monarchy: Kingship and the Kirk in the Early Seventeenth Century, Jenny Wormald
17. Mr Andrew Boyd (1567-1636): a Neo-Stoic Bishop of Argyll and his Writings, Jamie Reid-Baxter
18. Politics and Government in the Scottish Burghs, 1603-1638, Laura A. M. Stewart

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Julian Goodare, Ph.D. (1989) is Reader in Scottish History, University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on early modern Scotland. His books include The Government of Scotland, 1560-1603 (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Alasdair A. MacDonald, Ph.D. (1978) is Professor of English Language and Literature of the Middle Ages, University of Groningen. Most recently, he coedited Rhetoric, Royalty, and Reality: Essays on the Literary Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Scotland (Leuven, 2005).