George Buchanan political thought in early modern Britain and Europe (Ashgate, 2012)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction / Caroline Erskine and Roger A. Mason -- From Buchanan to Blaeu: the politics of Scottish chorography 1582-1654 / Roger A. Mason -- Performance, print and politics in George Buchanan's Ane detectioun of the duinges of Marie Queene of Scottes / Tricia McElroy -- Spenser and Buchanan / Andrew Hadfield -- George Buchanan and the patriot cause / Arthur Williamson -- Tyrants and translations: Dutch interpretations of George Buchanan's political thought / Astrid Stilma -- Buchanan and the German monarchomachs / Robert von Friedeburg -- The reception of Buchanan in northern Europe in the seventeenth century / Allan I Macinnes -- The Ciceronian theory of tyrannicide from Buchanan to Milton / Martin Dzelzainis -- George Buchanan and the Scottish Covenanters / John Coffey -- Buchanan in hell : Sir James Turner's Civil War royalism / Clare Jackson -- George Buchanan, English Whigs and royalists, and the canon of political theory / Caroline Erskine -- Scotland's fabulous past: Charles Mackie and George Buchanan / Esther Mijers -- Assassination principles in Scottish political culture : Buchanan to Hogg / Colin Kidd -- George Buchanan and revolution principles, 1688-1788 / Caroline Erskine
"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."--Provided by publisher