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Statue of George Buchanan, Scottish National Portrait Gallery. George Buchanan (Scottish Gaelic: Seòras Bochanan; February 1506 – 28 September 1582) was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar. According to historian Keith Brown, Buchanan was "the most profound intellectual sixteenth century Scotland produced."
Feb 19, 2024 · George Buchanan (born February 1506, Killearn, Stirlingshire, Scot.—died Sept. 29, 1582, Edinburgh) was a Scottish Humanist, educator, and man of letters, who was an eloquent critic of corruption and inefficiency in church and state during the period of the Reformation in Scotland.
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May 9, 2018 · Buchanan, George (1506–82). The most distinguished Scottish humanist of his era, Buchanan was born near Killearn in Stirlingshire and educated primarily at Paris, where he quickly gained a reputation as a neo-Latin poet and dramatist of rare distinction. Deeply influenced by Erasmus, his strongly anticlerical views led to frequent brushes ...
Aug 26, 2020 · Buchanan is best known to early modern historians as the polemicist for the revolutionary party that forced Mary Stuart to abdicate from the throne of Scotland in 1567 in favor of her infant son, James.
George Buchanan (1506-82), was a Scottish Renaissance humanist, poet and reformer, widely regarded as the finest writer in Latin of his century. Contents. 1 Biography. 2 Works. 3 Buchanan and the University of Edinburgh. 4 Sources. Biography. Buchanan studied and taught in several European universities.
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Oct 16, 2019 · Learn about George Buchanan (1506-1582), a Renaissance scholar, poet, dramatist and critic of monarchical tyranny. Explore his influence on Scottish and British history, his humanist views and his role in the Presbyterian Church.
This article examines the prose of John Knox and George Buchanan. Their political and controversial works, often published in the heat of national and dynastic dramas, helped shape the radical reputations that would make them the major voices of the Scottish Reformation.
