Author: Thomas M'CriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reformation
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Life of Andrew Melville
Author: Thomas M'CriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reformation
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Andrew Melville (1545-1622)
Author: Steven J. ReidPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317181182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
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.
Andrew Melville and Humanism in Renaissance Scotland 1545-1622
Author: Ernest R. HollowayPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900420539X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
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.
Life of Andrew Melville, Containing Illustrations of the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Scotland During the Latter Part of the Sixteenth and Beginning of the Seventeenth Century, with an Appendix Consisting of Original Papers
Author: Thomas M'CrieThe Life of Andrew Melville, containing illustrations of the ecclesiastical and literary history of Scotland during the latter part of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth Century. With an appendix ... of original papers
Author: Thomas MACCRIE (D.D., the Elder.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Melville
Author: Andrew DelbancoPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030783171X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
If Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential American. With a historian’s perspective and a critic’s insight, award-winning author Andrew Delbanco marvelously demonstrates that Melville was very much a man of his era and that he recorded — in his books, letters, and marginalia; and in conversations with friends like Nathaniel Hawthorne and with his literary cronies in Manhattan — an incomparable chapter of American history. From the bawdy storytelling of Typee to the spiritual preoccupations building up to and beyond Moby Dick, Delbanco brilliantly illuminates Melville’s life and work, and his crucial role as a man of American letters.
The Life of Andrew Melville
Author: Thomas D.D. M ́CRIEAndrew Melville (1545–1622)
Author: Professor Roger A MasonPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409426939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
With the exception of John Knox, no one did more to shape the Scottish Reformation than Andrew Melville. Remembered chiefly as a firebrand defender of radical Presbyterianism and reformer of the Scottish university system, his broader contributions to the cultural development of early modern Scotland - his poetry and prose - have largely been marginalised in subsequent historiography. Yet, as this collection shows, Melvillle was much more than simply a parochial reformer - rather he was an influential member of a pan-European humanist network.
Andrew Melville
Author: William MorisonPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
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.
Historical Memoirs of Andrew Melville
Author: Andrew Melville (Principal of St. Mary's College, St. Andrews.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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