This is the first full scholarly study of state formation and the exercise of state power in Scotland. It sets the Scottish state in a British and European cont

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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

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