[PDF] Andrew Melville 1545 1622 eBook

Author : Dr Steven J Reid
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1409474402

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Andrew Melville is chiefly remembered today as a defiant leader of radical Protestantism in Scotland, John Knox’s heir and successor, the architect of a distinctive Scottish Presbyterian kirk and a visionary reformer of the Scottish university system. While this view of Melville’s contribution to the shaping of Protestant Scotland has been criticised and revised in recent scholarship, his broader contribution to the development of the neo-Latin culture of early modern Britain has never been given the attention it deserves. Yet, as this collection shows, Melville was much more than simply a religious reformer: he was an influential member of a pan-European humanist network that valued classical learning as much as Calvinist theology. Neglect of this critical aspect of Melville’s intellectual outlook stems from the fact that almost all his surviving writings are in Latin - and much of it in verse. Melville did not pen any substantial prose treatise on theology, ecclesiology or political theory. His poetry, however, reveals his views on all these topics and offers new insights into his life and times. The main concerns of this volume, therefore, are to provide the first comprehensive listing of the range of poetry and prose attributed to Melville and to begin the process of elucidating these texts and the contexts in which they were written. While the volume contributes to an on-going process that has seen Melville’s role as an ecclesiastical politician and educational reformer challenged and diminished, it also seeks to redress the balance by opening up other dimensions of Melville’s career and intellectual life and shedding new light on the broader cultural context of Jacobean Scotland and Britain.

Author : Steven J. Reid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,60 MB
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1317181182

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Andrew Melville is chiefly remembered today as a defiant leader of radical Protestantism in Scotland, John Knox’s heir and successor, the architect of a distinctive Scottish Presbyterian kirk and a visionary reformer of the Scottish university system. While this view of Melville’s contribution to the shaping of Protestant Scotland has been criticised and revised in recent scholarship, his broader contribution to the development of the neo-Latin culture of early modern Britain has never been given the attention it deserves. Yet, as this collection shows, Melville was much more than simply a religious reformer: he was an influential member of a pan-European humanist network that valued classical learning as much as Calvinist theology. Neglect of this critical aspect of Melville’s intellectual outlook stems from the fact that almost all his surviving writings are in Latin - and much of it in verse. Melville did not pen any substantial prose treatise on theology, ecclesiology or political theory. His poetry, however, reveals his views on all these topics and offers new insights into his life and times. The main concerns of this volume, therefore, are to provide the first comprehensive listing of the range of poetry and prose attributed to Melville and to begin the process of elucidating these texts and the contexts in which they were written. While the volume contributes to an on-going process that has seen Melville’s role as an ecclesiastical politician and educational reformer challenged and diminished, it also seeks to redress the balance by opening up other dimensions of Melville’s career and intellectual life and shedding new light on the broader cultural context of Jacobean Scotland and Britain.

Author : Ernest R. Holloway
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 24,51 MB
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 900420539X

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The intellectual legacy of Andrew Melville (1545-1622) as a leader of the Renaissance and a promoter of humanism in Scotland has been obscured by "the Melville legend." In an effort to dispense with 'the Melville of popular imagination' and recover 'the Melville of history,' this work situates his life and thought within the broader context of the northern European Renaissance and French humanism and critically re-evaluates the primary historical documents of the period, namely James Melville's Autobiography and Diary and the Melvini epistolae. By considering Melville as a humanist, university reformer, ecclesiastical statesman, and man, an effort has been made to determine his contribution to the flowering of the Renaissance and the growth of humanism in Scotland during the early modern period.

Author : William Morison
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Andrew Melville" by William Morison. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Stuart McCabe
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 37,87 MB
Release : 2021-04-22
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Andrew Melville was a crucial personality in the history of 16th century Scottish religion, as important in the development of higher educational standards in Scotland. He was also without doubt a able inheritor of the mantle of famous religious reformers like John Knox, and he would also have a influence on the actions and works of others that came after him, such as Alexander Henderson, Samuel Rutherford, William Guthrie, Richard Cameron, James Renwick and many more who would against great odds carry on the work of Reformation. Besides his support for continued religious reform, Andrew is also well known for his battles against Diocesan Episcopacy and the power of the crown. From forensic study of the Old and New Testament, the Scottish reformers strived for a Kirk which was independent of the crown, and free of offices such as bishops and priests. All ministers were considered equal and were to be chosen by individual congregations. This would be a transparent Kirk free of corruption and exempt from patronage, whether by crown or nobility. The Kirk expected the crown to uphold its rights, and sought to enter into a covenant between, Crown, Kirk and God, whereupon Scottish society and the people would be transformed by religion and education into a "Godly people." Whilst the Kirk obeyed the sovereign as rulers over civil society, they recognised Jesus Christ as ruler over heaven and earth, and the Bible was the book of laws that all people should obey, including sovereigns. The Second Book of Disciple was in many respects the guidelines to such a covenant. King James VI of Scotland sought to claim his rights to the throne of England, a protestant nation yet following episcopacy through the Anglican Church. Through this system he could appoint bishops and influence the policies and direction of the church. It is clear that his secret agenda was to undermine the independence of the Scottish Kirk and shape it into a diocesan episcopacy similar to Anglican Church. These were the battles that Melville fought against James. Whilst Andrew was direct in his approach the James would prove himself duplicitous, cunning and ambiguous. Melville was threatened many times, yet when faced with destruction, imprisonment or exile at the hands of enemies he would resort to the small Hebrew Bible that he carried in a leather wallet around his waist. When he was once summoned before King and Council accused of treason, he would counter by placing his Bible on the Privy Council table and asserting his own rights according to the Old and New Testaments, "And you may see, your weakness, oversight and rashness in taking upon you which you neither ought nor can do, there are my instructions and my warrant;" and he would add, "let me see which of you can judge therein, or control me therein, that I have passed beyond my injunctions."

Author : Gesine Manuwald
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1350160288

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Compiled by a team of experts in the field, this volume brings to view an array of Latin texts produced in British universities from c.1500 to 1700. It includes a comprehensive introduction to the production of Neo-Latin and Neo-Greek in the early modern university, the precise circumstances and broader environments that gave rise to it, plus an associated bibliography. 12 high-quality sections, each prefaced by its own short introduction, set forth the Latin (and occasionally Greek) texts and accompanying English translations and notes. Each section provides focused orientation and is arranged in such a way as to ensure the volume's accessibility to scholars and students at all levels of familiarity with Neo-Latin. Passages are taken from documents that were composed in seats of learning across the British Isles, in Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, Edinburgh and St Andrews, and adduce a wide range of material from orations and disputational theses to collections of occasional verse, correspondence, notebooks and university drama. This anthology as a whole conveys a sense of the extent of Latin's role in the academy and the span of remits in which it was deployed. Far from simply offering a snapshot of discrete projects, the contributions collectively offer insights into the broader culture of the early modern university over an extended period. They engage with the administrative operations of institutions, pedagogical processes and academic approaches, but also high-level disputes and the universities' relationship with the worlds of politics, new science and intellectual developments elsewhere in Europe.