Roger Mason and Caroline Erskine
Ashgate
Hardback
314
George Buchanan (1506-1582) 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 importance as a political theorist has long been recognised this volume represents the first attempt to explore the subsequent influence and importance of his broader interests and ideas.Offering a well balanced selection of essays by an international cast of scholars the collection explores Buchanan's legacy as an historian and political theorist in the two centuries following his death with particular emphasis on the reception of his remarkably radical views on popular sovereignty and tyrannicide. As well as reflecting on the use and abuse of Buchanan's ideas in the early modern period the volume offers a long overdue reassessment of Buchanan and his legacy to the political and cultural development of northern Europe.
Ashgate
Hardback
314
George Buchanan (1506-1582) 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 importance as a political theorist has long been recognised this volume represents the first attempt to explore the subsequent influence and importance of his broader interests and ideas.Offering a well balanced selection of essays by an international cast of scholars the collection explores Buchanan's legacy as an historian and political theorist in the two centuries following his death with particular emphasis on the reception of his remarkably radical views on popular sovereignty and tyrannicide. As well as reflecting on the use and abuse of Buchanan's ideas in the early modern period the volume offers a long overdue reassessment of Buchanan and his legacy to the political and cultural development of northern Europe.