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

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Abbreviations xi
6. Part I Memory and Identity: Mason and the Historians
7. Introduction: Rethinking the Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland: Roger A. Mason’s Work and Legacy 1
8. 1 Contesting the Reformation: Roger Mason’s (‘sufficiently plausible’) Debt to David Hay Fleming and Andrew Lang 22
9. Part II Kingship and Political Culture: From Medieval to Renaissance
10. 2 A New Perspective on John of Fordun’s Chronica Gentis Scotorum as a Medieval ‘National History’ 41
11. 3 ‘A traitor to the kingdom’: Robert Bruce and the Use of Treason in Fourteenth-Century Scotland 61
12. 4 James and John: James I (1406–37), Monastic Reform, Kingship, and the Cult of John the Baptist 81
13. 5 Sent Abroad to Talk for Their Country: Two Examples of Early Scottish Humanist Diplomacy 98
14. 6 ‘O wretched king!’: Ireland, Denmark–Norway, and Kingship in the Reign of James V 118
15. Part III Literature, Politics and Religion: Renaissance and Reformation
16. 7 ‘The time of reformation’: The Evolution of Early Modern Protestant Memories of the Scottish Reformation 141
17. 8 James and John: The Stormy Relationship between James Stewart, Regent Moray and John Knox 159
18. 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’) 183
19. 10 ‘Long lyf and welth vith veilfair and great gloir’: New Year and the Giving of Advice at the Stewart Court 203
20. 11 John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, and the Design of Mary, Queen of Scots’ Defence 223
21. 12 Alexander Hume’s Hymnes, or Sacred Songs 242
22. 13 The Dutch in Scotland: The Diplomatic Visit of the States General upon the Baptism of Prince Henry 261
23. Afterword: The Renaissance of Roger Mason 277
24. Roger A. Mason: A Select Bibliography 281
25. Index 285
26. Tabula Gratulatoria 295