What Andrew Melville Really Thought of James VI
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Andrew Melville infamously called James VI God’s ‘sillie vassal’, but what do his writings reveal about his views on kingship and the power of the people? In this seminar paper, Dr. Steven Reid, Lecturer in History at the University of Glasgow, assesses Melville’s Latin poetry to provide a new angle on Scotland’s best-known Presbyterian thinker.
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