Andrew Melville and Humanism in Renaissance Scotland 1545-1622

Ernest R. Holloway III, Ph.D. (2005), Westminster Theological Seminary & Ph.D. (2009), University of Aberdeen, is Adjunct Professor of Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary. His research focuses on humanism and the Renaissance in early modern Europe.

Shortlisted for the Saltire Society's 2011 Scottish History Book of the Year Award'''This carefully researched book, with a great bibliography, draws its portrait with a finely pointed pencil allowing us to see past the legendary grandeur to appreciate a gifted professor who labored in study and lecture hall.’’ Joel R. Beeke, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, in: Sixteenth Century Journal,Vol. 43, No. 4, 2012, p. 1148. “It is with a view to deconstructing the Melville myth and offering a more balanced and up-to-date appraisal of his career that Ernest R. Holloway III has written what amounts to the first detailed intellectual biography of the man. . . [the] account is clear and effective, providing a much-needed corrective to McCrie, while also offering a more considered context for interpreting the memoirs of James Melville, Andrew’s nephew—the most important single source not only for Melville’s biography but also for subsequent Presbyterian mythologising. Holloway’s Melville is altogether more complex and interesting than his hagiographers have allowed. . . [the work] is especially useful in reconstructing the intellectual networks that Melville’s peripatetic education enabled him to establish and that plugged him into various strands of classical and legal, as well as Christian, humanism. . . Holloway has written a substantial and useful biography of Melville. . . .” Roger A. Mason, University of St. Andrews, in English Historical Review, Vol. 130, Issue 543, 2015, p. 444."Ernest R. Holloway III has written the modern study of Melville, Andrew Melville and Humanism in Renaissance Scotland, 1545-1622. . . . The book is especially valuable as a tour through certain aspects of the Northern Renaissance. . . . We are not likely to learn much more about Andrew Melville than what Holloway has provided . . . .” David G. Mullan, in H-Albion, H-Net Reviews. February, 2013.

• Acknowledgements ….….…………………………………………………..……......A Melville Chronology …………………………………………….………………...Abbreviations ……….…………………………………………….…………………CHAPTER I ANDREW MELVILLE AND THE MELVILLE LEGEND1. The Melville Legend ………………………………………………2. The Development of the Legend ………………………………......3. Demythologizing the Legend ………………………………….......4. Knox and Melville ………………………………………………....5. Buchanan and Melville ……………………………………………6. Melville and Humanism ……………………………………………CHAPTER II THE FORMATIVE YEARS (1545-1563/4)1. The Narrative History ……………………………………………...2. Childhood and Family ………………………………………….......3. Early Education …………………………………………………....4. The University of St. Andrews ……………………………………..5. Conclusion …………………………………………………………CHAPTER III FRANCE: PARIS AND POITIERS (1563/4-1569)1. The Collège Royal and University of Paris …………………….…..2. Petrus Ramus ………………………………………………….….3. George Buchanan …………………………………………….…...4. The University of Poitiers …………………………………….…..5. Conclusion ……………………………………………………......CHAPTER IV SWITZERLAND: GENEVA (1569-1574)1. The Academy of Geneva ………………………………………....2. Melville‘s Genevan Circle ………………………………………...3. Joseph Justus Scaliger ……………………………………………4. Theodore Beza …………………………………………………..5. Melville‘s Departure ……………………………………………..6. Conclusion ………………………………………………………CHAPTER V SCOTLAND: GLASGOW (1574-1580)1. Melville as Private Tutor ………………………………………….2. The University of Glasgow ………………………………………..3. A Humanist in Service to the Kirk ………………………………...4. Fellow Humanists and Advocates of Reform …………………….5. 1577 Nova Erectio ………………………………………………...6. Relocation to St Andrews ………………………………………....7. Conclusion ………………………………………………………..CHAPTER VI SCOTLAND: ST ANDREWS (1580-1607)1. The University of St Andrews ……………………………………2. The Controversy Over Aristotle ………………………………….3. The Ecclesiastical Statesman ………………………………………4. Exile in England: London, Oxford, and Cambridge ……………..5. The Visit of Du Bartas …………………………………………..6. Melville‘s Literary Circle ………………………………………...7. Melville‘s Poetry …………………………………………………8. Conclusion ………………………………………………………CHAPTER VII ENGLAND AND FRANCE: LONDON AND SEDAN (1607-1622)1. Prelude to Conflict ………………………………………………2. James VI and the Tower of London ……………………………..3. The Melvini Epistolae ………………………………………….......4. The University of Sedan ………………………………………....5. Arthur Johnston ………………………………………………...6. Conclusion ……………………………………………………CHAPTER VIII ANDREW MELVILLE AND THE RENAISSANCE IN SCOTLAND1. Melville the Humanist ……………….……………………......2. Melville the University Reformer……………………………….3. Melville the Ecclesiastical Statesman ……………………………4. Melville the Man ………………………………………………..INDEX ……………………………………………………………………….SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ………..………………………………………