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George Buchanan - Political Thought in Early Modern Britain and Europe (Paperback)
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George Buchanan - Political Thought in Early Modern Britain and Europe (Paperback)
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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.
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