Literature and the Scottish Reformation (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History)

279 Pages·2009·1.31 MB·English

by  Crawford Gribben and David George Mullan

Literature and the
Scottish Reformation
Edited by
Crawford Gribben
and
David George Mullan
Literature and the Scottish Reformation
In memory of
Professor David F. Wright, 1937–2008
Literature and the
Scottish Reformation
Edited by
CRawfoRd GRibben
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
and
david GeoRGe MuLLan
Cape Breton University, Canada
© Crawford Gribben and david George Mullan 2009
all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Literature and the Scottish Reformation.
– (St andrews studies in Reformation history)
1. Christian literature, english – History and criticism 2. english literature
– early modern, 1500–1700 – History and criticism 3. english literature
– Scottish authors – History and criticism 4. Scottish literature – To 1700 –
History and criticism 5. Religion and literature – Scotland – History – 16th
century 6. Reformation – Scotland
i. Gribben, Crawford ii. Mullan, david George
820.9’382’09031
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Literature and the Scottish Reformation / [edited by] Crawford Gribben and
david George Mullan.
p. cm. – (St. andrews studies in Reformation history)
includes index.
iSbn 978–0–7546–6715–5 (alk. paper)
1. Reformation – Scotland. 2. Scottish literature – To 1700 – History and
criticism.
i. Gribben, Crawford. ii. Mullan, david George.
bR385.L58 2008
274.11’06–dc22
2008035800
iSbn 978–07546–6715–5
Contents
Contributors vii
Abbreviations ix
introduction 1
Crawford Gribben
Part I: Contexts
1 writing the Scottish Reformation 21
David George Mullan
2 Language attitudes and choice in the Scottish Reformation 45
Marina Dossena
3 ‘The divine fury of the Muses’: neo-Latin poetry in early
modern Scotland 63
David Allan
Part II: Texts
4 allegory and Reformation poetics in david Lindsay’s
Ane Satire of the Thrie Estaitis (1552–54) 81
Amanda J. Piesse
5 John Knox and A Godly Letter: fashioning and refashioning
the exilic ‘i’ 95
Rudolph P. Almasy
6 Theological controversy in the wake of John Knox’s The
First Blast of the Trumpet 111
Kenneth D. Farrow
7 King James vi and i as a religious writer 127
Astrid Stilma
vi LiTeRaTuRe and THe SCoTTiSH RefoRMaTion
8 Calvinism, counter-Reformation and conversion: alexander
Montgomerie’s religious poetry 143
Mark S. Sweetnam
9 english bards and Scotch poetics: Scotland’s literary
influence and sixteenth-century English religious verse 161
Deirdre Serjeantson
10 Hume of Godscroft on parity 191
David Reid
Part III: Reception
11 Political theatre or heritage culture? Ane Satyre of the Thrie
Estaitis in production 213
Adrienne Scullion
12 a book for Lollards and Protestants: Murdoch nisbet’s
new Testament 233
Martin Holt Dotterweich
a few concluding observations 247
David George Mullan
Index 251
Contributors
David Allan is Reader in History at the university of St andrews and
the author of numerous studies of the intellectual history of early modern
Scotland, including Philosophy and Politics in Later Stuart Scotland: Neo-
Stoicism, Culture and Ideology in an Age of Crisis, 1540–1690.
Rudolph P. Almasy is Professor of english at eberly College of arts and
Sciences, west virginia university. He is the author of a number of studies
on the literature of the english and Scottish reformations.
Marina Dossena is Professor of english Language at the university of
bergamo. She is the author of Scotticisms in Grammar and Vocabulary
and is editor of the online bibliography of Scots and Scottish english.
Martin Holt Dotterweich earned his Phd at new College, edinburgh,
where he wrote a thesis on ‘The emergence of evangelical theology in
Scotland to 1550’. He is associate Professor of History at King College,
bristol, Tennessee.
Kenneth D. Farrow is the author of John Knox: Reformation Rhetoric and
the Traditions of Scots Prose, 1490–1570, and is currently in receipt of a
larger research grant from the british academy, to work on the writings
of alexander Scott.
Crawford Gribben is Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in early Modern
Print Culture at Trinity College dublin. He is the author of God’s Irishmen:
Theological Debates in Cromwellian Ireland and a number of other studies
of literature and theology in early modern Scotland and ireland.
David George Mullan is Professor of History and Religious Studies at
Cape Breton University in Nova Scotia. He is the author or editor of five
books on early-modern Scotland, and is currently completing a study of
religious narrative in the period.
Amanda J. Piesse is a Senior Lecturer in early modern literature at Trinity
College, dublin, and a fellow of the College. She is editor of Sixteenth-
century identities and is author of various articles of early modern and
children’s literature.
viii LiTeRaTuRe and THe SCoTTiSH RefoRMaTion
David Reid recently retired from the department of english Studies,
university of Stirling. He has edited david Hume of Godscroft’s History of
the House of Douglas and History of the House of Angus for the Scottish
Text Society.
Adrienne Scullion works in the department of Theatre, film and Television
Studies at the university of Glasgow where her research and teaching
interests focus on Scottish theatre and drama from the eighteenth century
to the post-devolution period.
Deirdre Serjeantson is the Munby fellow in bibliography at the university
Library, Cambridge, and a fellow of darwin College. She is currently
engaged in a study of the religious and political aspects of early-modern
petrarchism.
Astrid Stilma has taught english literature at the vrije universiteit
amsterdam, the university of amsterdam and the university of Groningen
and is now Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Studies at Canterbury Christ
Church University. She is finalizing a monograph on the writings of King
James vi & i and their reception in Protestant europe (primarily the
netherlands) in the wake of his english accession in 1603.
Mark S. Sweetnam is a Government of ireland Scholar at Trinity College
dublin, where he has completed his Phd on religious authority in the
sermons of John Donne. His recent work includes a study of the significance
of the Reformation of the eucharist in Hamlet, in Literature and Theology,
and of african missionary writing, in Journal of Ecclesiastical History.
abbreviations
ODNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
RES Review of English Studies
RSCHS Records of the Scottish Church History Society
SHR Scottish Historical Review
SHS Scottish History Society
SLJ Scottish Literary Journal
SSL Studies in Scottish Literature
SSR Scottish Studies Review
STS Scottish Text Society