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Andrew Melville (1545-1622) Writings, Reception, and Reputation
Biography
Roger Mason is professor of Scottish History at the University of St Andrews. He is general editor of the New Edinburgh History of Scotland and is currently (2013-17) President of the Scottish History Society. He has published extensively in the field of early modern political thought and his most recent publications include an edition of Buchanan's 'De Iure Regni apud Scotos Dialogus' (Ashgate, 2004); ’George Buchanan's Law of Kingship: "De Iure Regni Apud Scotos Dialogus"’ (Saltire Society, 2006); and (with Caroline Erskine) ’George Buchanan: Political Thought in Early Modern Britain and Europe’ (Ashgate, 2012). Dr Steven Reid is Lecturer in History at the University of Glasgow. His research interests lie broadly in the intellectual and religious history of Scotland between c. 1450 and c. 1650, with particular interest in the impact of the European Renaissance and Reformation on Scotland. His most recent publications include, ’The Parish of Govan and the Principals of the University of Glasgow, 1577-1621’ (Friends of Govan old lecture series, 2012); and with E.A. Wilson (eds.) ’Ramus, Pedagogy and the Liberal Arts: Ramism in Britain and the Wider World’ (Ashgate, 2011).
"In sum, this volume helps us to see that in the post-John-Knox-era of Scotland’s late Reformation Andrew Melville was a more complex figure than the mere contrarian we have heard he was." – Kenneth J. Stewart, Calvin Theological Journal, 2016
"This excellent volume is another valuable contribution to the ongoing re-examination of Scotland’s interwoven religious and political history of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. (...) This volume deserves to be praised as a tour de force of historiography that is a hugely valuable resource for the study of Melville and his milieu and which will repay the investment in its purchase." - Martin Ritchie, University of Edinburgh
