Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"In Mary Queen of Scots: The First Biography, Ronald Santangeli has recovered a long-forgotten document of great historiographical, literary and cultural importance. Written in 1624 in Neo-Latin by George Con, a young expatriate Scot in Rome, it is worthy of study, both for its content and its literary dimension. The fully recensed Latin text, is presented with a meticulous translation into English and a fully-annotated commentary. The image Con creates of the Scottish Queen has prevailed in European cultural representations from poetry and drama to novels, paintings and opera, while Con's own meteoric career highlights the impact on 17th century Catholic Europe by members of the Scottish diaspora. A significant addition to Marian and Scottish Neo-Latin studies"--

Priests --- Mary, --- Conn, George, --- Historiography. --- Mary, - Queen of Scots, - 1542-1587 --- Conn, George, - -1640 --- Conn, George, - -1640. - Vita Mariae Stuartae Scotiae reginae --- Mary Stuart [Queen of Scotland]

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Three monarchs of Scotland (James V, Mary Queen of Scots, and James VI/I) were crowned during the sixteenth century; each came to the throne before their second birthday. Throughout all three royal minorities, the Scots remained remarkably consistent in their governmental preferences: that an individual should 'bear the person' of the infant monarch, with all the power and risks that entailed. Regents could alienate crown lands, call parliament, raise taxes, and negotiate for the monarch's marriage, yet they also faced the potential of a shameful deposition from power and the assassin's gun. In examining the careers of the six men and two women who became regent in context with each other and contemporary expectations, Regency in Sixteenth-Century Scotland offers the first study of regency as a political office. It provides a major reassessment of both the office of regency itself and of individual regents. The developments in how the Scots thought about regency are charted, and the debates in which they engaged on this subject are exposed for the first time. Drawing on a broad archival base of neglected manuscript materials, ranging from financial accounts, to the justiciary court records, to diplomatic correspondence scattered from Edinburgh to Paris, the book reveals a greater level of continuity between the personal rules of the adult Stewarts and of their regents than has hitherto been appreciated. Amy Blakeway is a Junior Research Fellow in History at Homerton College, University of Cambridge.

Scotland --- History --- Regency --- Scotlan --- Monarchy --- 1500 - 1599 --- Politics and government --- Amy Blakeway. --- James V. --- James VI/I. --- Mary Queen of Scots. --- Political Office. --- Regency. --- Scottish Monarchs. --- Sixteenth Century. --- University of St Andrews.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This collection of essays, in honour of Professor Roger A. Mason, critically re-assesses what we understand by the terms "Renaissance" and "Reformation" in Scottish History.Roger Mason's research in the field of pre-modern Scottish history has proved ground-breaking and iconoclastic. He recast late-medieval Stewart kingship within the framework of renaissance monarchy and Christian humanism; led the application of intellectual- and literary-historical approaches to early modern Scottish studies; and produced novel and highly influential analyses of a wide canon of key texts, from Mair's History of Greater Britain to the writings of John Knox and George Buchanan. This volume celebrates his "rethinking" of the Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland by applying the core elements of his historical approach to a broader temporal period between the fourteenth and early seventeenth centuries and to a new range of texts. Its essays, by leading scholars of pre-modern Scotland, explore aspects of the cultural transition from medieval to renaissance, the role of historical memory in defining and redefining Scottish identity, the interface between literature, politics and religion in a period of confessional strife and, above all, the importance of ideas in shaping the political and religious outlook of pre-modern Scots.

Reformation --- Renaissance --- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Norman Conquest to Late Medieval (1066-1485). --- Alexander Hume. --- Chronica Gentis Scotorum. --- James I of Scotland. --- John Leslie, Bishop of Ross. --- Mary, Queen of Scots. --- Monastic Reform. --- Regent Moray. --- Robert Bruce. --- Scotorum Regis Inauguratio. --- Thomas Maitland.