Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Aberdeen, 2009, under the title: Andrew Melville and humanism in the reign of James VI.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Preliminary Material / E. R. Holloway III -- I. Andrew Melville And The Melville Legend / E. R. Holloway III -- II. The Formative Years (1545–1563/4) / E. R. Holloway III -- III. France: Paris And Poitiers (1563/4–1569) / E. R. Holloway III -- IV. Switzerland: Geneva (1569–1574) / E. R. Holloway III -- V. Scotland: Glasgow (1574–1580) / E. R. Holloway III -- VI. Scotland: St Andrews (1580–1607) / E. R. Holloway III -- VII. England And France: London And Sedan (1607–1622) / E. R. Holloway III -- VIII. Andrew Melville And The Renaissance In Scotland / E. R. Holloway III -- Selected Bibliography / E. R. Holloway III -- Index Of Melville’s Selected Works / E. R. Holloway III -- General Index / E. R. Holloway III.

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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 legend.\' In an effort to dispense with 'the Melville of popular imagination' and recover 'the Melville of history,' this work situates his life and thought within the broader context of the northern European Renaissance and French humanism and critically re-evaluates the primary historical documents of the period, namely James Melville's Autobiography and Diary and the Melvini epistolae . By considering Melville as a humanist, university reformer, ecclesiastical statesman, and man, an effort has been made to determine his contribution to the flowering of the Renaissance and the growth of humanism in Scotland during the early modern period.