Sixteenth-Century Scotland

This collection of essays demonstrates the vitality of the political, cultural and religious history of Scotland in the era of the Renaissance and Reformation. It includes essays on politics, religion and towns, and on the literature and culture of the royal court and the common people. The essays all illuminate the ‘long sixteenth century’, c.1500-1650, which has been established as a distinct period.

Contributors include: Sharon Adams, Steve Boardman, Jane E. A. Dawson, E. Patricia Dennison, Helen Dingwall, David Ditchburn, Julian Goodare, Ruth Grant, Theo van Heijnsbergen, Amy L. Juhala, Roderick J. Lyall, Alasdair A. MacDonald, Alan R. MacDonald, Maureen M. Meikle, Jamie Reid-Baxter, Laura A. M. Stewart, Andrea Thomas, Jenny Wormald, and Michael J. Yellowlees.

Publications by Michael Lynch:

Edited by A.A. MacDonald, Michael Lynch and Ian B. Cowan, The Renaissance in Scotland, ISBN: 978 90 04 10097 8

Julian Goodare, Ph.D. (1989) is Reader in Scottish History, University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on early modern Scotland. His books include The Government of Scotland, 1560-1603 (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Alasdair A. MacDonald, Ph.D. (1978) is Professor of English Language and Literature of the Middle Ages, University of Groningen. Most recently, he coedited Rhetoric, Royalty, and Reality: Essays on the Literary Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Scotland (Leuven, 2005).

"If this collection is anything to go by [...] Lynch's real legacy lies [...] in demonstrating the rich possibilities opened up by refusing to be bound by such categories as social, religious, political, or cultural ghistory, and seeing past events in general and the Scottish Reformation in particular in emphatically multidimensional terms."
Roger A. Mason, University of St. Andrews

This collection of eighteen essays is a fine tribute to one of the foremost historians of early modern Scotland and provides eloquent testimony to the affectionate regard in which he is held. [...] This is a lively collection that will be much consulted. Several of its essays sparkle, nearly all present the fruits of original research, and all are thought provoking.
Ralph Houlbrooke, Journal of British Studies (July 2010), 692-693.

"The quality of the essays makes the cost of the book well worth considering."
Cynthia J. Neville, Sixteenth-Century Journal 40:4 (2009) 1217-1218.