Contents

pp v-vi

Contributors

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-x

List of Abbreviations

pp xi-xiv

Part I - Memory and Identity: Mason and the Historians

pp 1-2

Introduction: Rethinking the Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland: Roger A. Mason’s Work and Legacy

pp 3-21

1 - Contesting the Reformation: Roger Mason’s (‘sufficiently plausible’) Debt to David Hay Fleming and Andrew Lang

pp 22-40

Part II - Kingship and Political Culture: From Medieval to Renaissance

pp 41-42

2 - A New Perspective on John of Fordun’s Chronica Gentis Scotorum as a Medieval ‘National History’

pp 43-60

3 - ‘A traitor to the kingdom’: Robert Bruce and the Use of Treason in Fourteenth-Century Scotland

pp 61-80

4 - James and John: James I (1406–37), Monastic Reform, Kingship, and the Cult of John the Baptist

pp 81-97

5 - Sent Abroad to Talk for Their Country: Two Examples of Early Scottish Humanist Diplomacy

pp 98-117

6 - ‘O wretched king!’: Ireland, Denmark–Norway, and Kingship in the Reign of James V

pp 118-140

Part III - Literature, Politics and Religion: Renaissance and Reformation

pp 141-142

7 - ‘The time of reformation’: The Evolution of Early Modern Protestant Memories of the Scottish Reformation

pp 143-158

8 - James and John: The Stormy Relationship between James Stewart, Regent Moray and John Knox

pp 159-182

9 - A Disciple of Buchanan in the Marian Civil War: Thomas Maitland’s ‘The Consecration of James VI, King of Scots’ (‘Jacobi VI, Scotorum Regis Inauguratio’)

pp 183-202

10 - ‘Long lyf and welth vith veilfair and great gloir’: New Year and the Giving of Advice at the Stewart Court

pp 203-222

11 - John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, and the Design of Mary, Queen of Scots’ Defence

pp 223-241

12 - Alexander Hume’s Hymnes, or Sacred Songs

pp 242-260

13 - The Dutch in Scotland: The Diplomatic Visit of the States General upon the Baptism of Prince Henry

pp 261-276

Afterword: The Renaissance of Roger Mason

pp 277-280

Roger A. Mason: A Select Bibliography

pp 281-284

Index

pp 285-294

Tabula Gratulatoria

pp 295-295

St Andrews Studies in Scottish History

pp 296-296

Miscellaneous Endmatter

pp 297-297