A Dialogue on the Law of Kingship among the Scots: A Critical Edition and Translation of George Buchanan's 'De Iure Regni apud Scotos Dialogus'

Scottish History in the Eyes of Sixteenth-Century France

“…Despite the availability of two Latin histories of Scotland in Parisian bookshops from the 1520s onward, the first section of this article suggests that, alack, 1 Mason, 1994;Mason, 1991;Royan, 2002;Mason, 2004;Mason, 2002;Mason and Smith, 2004;Erskine andMason, 2012. 2 Bonner, 2013;Talbott;Bonner, 2010;Bonner, 1999.…”

“…3/4 (2024). For his opponents' use of history in debates surrounding Mary, see Mason, 2002;Mason and Smith;Erskine and Mason. their reach was limited. Hector Boece's Scotorum Historia (1527) enjoyed some limited influence, usually confined to moments when rejuvenated Franco-Scottish dynastic alliances piqued interest in Scotland's past.…”

Early Polemic by Andrew Melville: The <i>Carmen Mosis</i> (1574) and the St Bartholomew's Day Massacres

“…Roger Mason has persuasively argued that Buchanan's most controversial tract on the right to resist, the De Iure Regni Apud Scotos Dialogus, was begun shortly after Buchanan's visit to Paris and almost entirely completed before the end of 1569. 47 If the ideas forming De Iure were not already in gestation during Buchanan's time in Paris, when he and Melville could have discussed them, at the very least he may have sent Melville a manuscript copy of the work, or word of it may have passed to Melville via shared friends such as Peter Young. Either way, the tone of Classicum certainly reflects the general idea of popular resistance, while the specific reference to Brutus in Tyrannus links the epigram with the cult of Brutus and the republican tradition, mirrored by Buchanan's reference to Brutus in another of his works, the 1552/3 poetic preface to Marc-Antoine de Muret's tragedy, Julius Caesar: Such great virtue as there was deep-seated in the heroic soul of Brutus, When the pious daggers were given him on behalf of his country.…”