The British Union : a critical edition and translation of David Hume of Godscroft's De Unione Insulae Britannicae

edited and translated by Paul J. McGinnis and Arthur H. Williamson

"De Unione insulae Brittanicae" (The British Union) is a unique early-17th-century tract that urged the fusion of the Scottish and English kingdoms into a new British commonwealth with a radically new British identity. Its author, David Hume of Godscroft (1558-c.1630) was a major intellectual figure in Jacobean Scotland and the leading Scottish critic of the anglicizing policies of James VI. This is the first translation of the tract, the publication of which was suppressed and which exists only in manuscript. Hume's work is breathtakingly contemporary in some of the proposals that it makes: regional assemblies combined with a national parliament, and a call for efforts to inspire the Scottish and English people into a sense of common purpose. The language and ideas of the tract display characteristics of the Renaissance combined with elements that visibly anticipate the Enlightenment. The De Unione offers extraordinary insight into the European intellectual world prior to the rise of romantic nationalism in the early 19th century.

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[目次]

  • The Scottish Commonwealth - from George Buchanan to David Hume
  • Britain's lost Renaissance - from citizen to subject
  • David Hume and radical Britain
  • The De Unione and its fate
  • book one
  • book two - Andrew Melville's letter
  • To the reader
  • The necessity of a union founded on mutual love
  • The name: Britannia
  • Emblems and insignia
  • Treaties and ordinances
  • The councils
  • The Parliament
  • Offices
  • Currency
  • Commerce
  • Laws and the courts
  • Immunities and privileges
  • Association
  • Exhortation
  • Marriage
  • Education
  • Colonies
  • Religion
  • The oath
  • A British order of knighthood
  • Triennial visits
  • Society
  • Prayers for Britain
  • Summary of the argument
  • Apologia.

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書名 The British Union : a critical edition and translation of David Hume of Godscroft's De Unione Insulae Britannicae
著作者等 McGinnis Paul J.
Williamson Arthur H.
Hume David
書名別名 De Unione Insulae Britannicae
シリーズ名 St. Andrews studies in Reformation history
出版元 Ashgate
刊行年月 c2002
ページ数 xv, 333 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0754603407
NCID BA58611149
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言語 英語
原文言語 ラテン語
出版国 イギリス
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