Roger A Mason
Biographic Data
| ID | 3980696 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger A Mason |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger A |
| FAMILY NAME | Mason |
| SIGNATURE | MASON R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6801-4631 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Declaration of Arbroath in print, 1680–1705
This article examines the circumstances in which the Declaration of Arbroath was first printed in 1680 by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh and the original manuscript on which Mackenzie’s text was based (NRS SP13/7). It then traces its subsequent print history between the Revolution of 1689–90 and the Union of Parliaments in 1707 both in Latin and in an English translation that first appeared in 1689. It locates the Declaration within the broade…
Dame Scotia and the Commonweal
Robert Wedderburn’s Complaynt of Scotland (Paris, 1550) has attracted surprisingly little attention from modern scholars. Although available in an accessible critical edition since 1979, no analysis of its context, sources and polemical purposes has been undertaken in recent scholarship. This article redresses this imbalance, reading the Complaynt as part of the ideological warfare that accompanied the English crown’s ‘Rough Wooing’ of Scotland i…
Multiple Monarchy and Scottish Identity
Early modern geopolitics were largely driven by dynastic imperatives – births, marriages and deaths among Europe's royal families – and this article approaches the union of 1603 from the perspective of J. H. Elliott's A Europe of Composite Monarchies . Thus, it explores how Scots perceived their place within this new dynastic empire and the hopes and fears their new relationship with England engendered. It begins, however, by examining the baptis…
John Knox and the British Reformations
Jane Dawson, John Knox
Andrew Melville and Humanism in Renaissance Scotland, 1545–1622, by Ernest R. Holloway III
Andrew Melville looms large in accounts of the reign of James VI and I, primarily as a clerical politician as unrelenting as he was naïve in his defence of Presbyterianism, whose defiant description of his royal master as ‘God’s silly vassal’ was trumped by his imprisonment in the Tower of London at the king’s command and subsequent banishment into French exile. If occasionally also characterised as an educational reformer, bent on the transforma…
Debating Britain in Seventeenth-Century Scotland
This article deploys the concept of multiple monarchy as a means of reassessing the constitutional relationship between Scotland and England from the union of the crowns in 1603 to the union of parliaments in 1707. It argues that the Scots’ belief in their kingdom's historic independence, symbolised by the Stuart dynasty itself, led them to conceive of the union with England as one of equals, but that such parity of status and esteem was rendered…
Certeine Matters Concerning the Realme of Scotland
Although historians have long been aware of the range of printed and manuscript treatises that was prompted by the Union of 1603, little attention has been paid to a genre of printed works published in the years immediately before and after 1603 that were specifically concerned with Scotland and the Stewart lineage rather than with debating the idea of Britain. This article explores this literature in detail and uncovers the extent to which the S…
The State of Scottish History
Why Kosovo doesn’t matter, and how it should
Scotland, Elizabethan England and the Idea of Britain
This paper explores aspects of Anglo-Scottish relations in Elizabeth's reign with particular emphasis on the idea of dynastic union and the creation of a Protestant British kingdom. It begins by examining the legacy of pre-Elizabethan ideas of Britain and the extent to which Elizabeth and her government sought to realise the vision of a Protestant and imperial British kingdom first articulated in the late 1540s. It then focuses on the issues aris…
Lead Isotope Analyses of Islamic Pottery Glazes From Fustat, Egypt
Lead isotope analyses have been undertaken on a group of Islamic lead‐glazed pottery artefacts from Fustat, Egypt, spanning the period from the eighth to the 14th century ad , that had previously been the subject of a comprehensive typological, chronological, petrographic and technological study. Comparison of the lead isotope ratios for the glazes with those for lead ores from Egypt, Iran, Tunisia, Anatolia, Greece, Sardinia and Spain provided i…
Burns, True Law of Kingship
Ferguson, The Identity of the Scottish Nation
Lead Glazes in Antiquity—methods of Production and Reasons for Use
Transparent high lead and tin‐opacified lead‐alkali glazes have been extensively used throughout Europe and the Near East from their first appearance in the Roman era and the tenth‐ to eleventh‐century Islamic world, respectively, up until the present day. Using, to a large extent, information which is widely scattered through a diverse range of literature, the methods employed in the production of these two glaze types are first outlined and the…
Usable Pasts
Few of us would dispute that the Reformation was one of the key defining moments in Scottish history. Not only did it lead to a radical reshaping of Scottish self-perceptions, in effect redefining what it meant to be a Scot, but it also contributed to a self-conscious and systematic reinterpretation of the Scottish past, through which the new Protestant self-image to which the Reformation gave rise was validated and sustained. The Scots, I was on…
People and Power in Scotland
Airpower in conventional arms control
Antique Maps. A Collector's Handbook
Lead Glazes in Antiquity—methods of Production and Reasons for Use
Transparent high lead and tin‐opacified lead‐alkali glazes have been extensively used throughout Europe and the Near East from their first appearance in the Roman era and the tenth‐ to eleventh‐century Islamic world, respectively, up until the present day. Using, to a large extent, information which is widely scattered through a diverse range of literature, the methods employed in the production of these two glaze types are first outlined and the…
Lead Isotope Analyses of Islamic Pottery Glazes From Fustat, Egypt
Lead isotope analyses have been undertaken on a group of Islamic lead‐glazed pottery artefacts from Fustat, Egypt, spanning the period from the eighth to the 14th century ad , that had previously been the subject of a comprehensive typological, chronological, petrographic and technological study. Comparison of the lead isotope ratios for the glazes with those for lead ores from Egypt, Iran, Tunisia, Anatolia, Greece, Sardinia and Spain provided i…
Debating Britain in Seventeenth-Century Scotland
This article deploys the concept of multiple monarchy as a means of reassessing the constitutional relationship between Scotland and England from the union of the crowns in 1603 to the union of parliaments in 1707. It argues that the Scots’ belief in their kingdom's historic independence, symbolised by the Stuart dynasty itself, led them to conceive of the union with England as one of equals, but that such parity of status and esteem was rendered…
Certeine Matters Concerning the Realme of Scotland
Although historians have long been aware of the range of printed and manuscript treatises that was prompted by the Union of 1603, little attention has been paid to a genre of printed works published in the years immediately before and after 1603 that were specifically concerned with Scotland and the Stewart lineage rather than with debating the idea of Britain. This article explores this literature in detail and uncovers the extent to which the S…
Antique Maps. A Collector's Handbook
Airpower in conventional arms control
People and Power in Scotland
Usable Pasts
Few of us would dispute that the Reformation was one of the key defining moments in Scottish history. Not only did it lead to a radical reshaping of Scottish self-perceptions, in effect redefining what it meant to be a Scot, but it also contributed to a self-conscious and systematic reinterpretation of the Scottish past, through which the new Protestant self-image to which the Reformation gave rise was validated and sustained. The Scots, I was on…
Lead Glazes in Antiquity—methods of Production and Reasons for Use
Transparent high lead and tin‐opacified lead‐alkali glazes have been extensively used throughout Europe and the Near East from their first appearance in the Roman era and the tenth‐ to eleventh‐century Islamic world, respectively, up until the present day. Using, to a large extent, information which is widely scattered through a diverse range of literature, the methods employed in the production of these two glaze types are first outlined and the…
Ferguson, The Identity of the Scottish Nation
Burns, True Law of Kingship
Lead Isotope Analyses of Islamic Pottery Glazes From Fustat, Egypt
Lead isotope analyses have been undertaken on a group of Islamic lead‐glazed pottery artefacts from Fustat, Egypt, spanning the period from the eighth to the 14th century ad , that had previously been the subject of a comprehensive typological, chronological, petrographic and technological study. Comparison of the lead isotope ratios for the glazes with those for lead ores from Egypt, Iran, Tunisia, Anatolia, Greece, Sardinia and Spain provided i…
Scotland, Elizabethan England and the Idea of Britain
This paper explores aspects of Anglo-Scottish relations in Elizabeth's reign with particular emphasis on the idea of dynastic union and the creation of a Protestant British kingdom. It begins by examining the legacy of pre-Elizabethan ideas of Britain and the extent to which Elizabeth and her government sought to realise the vision of a Protestant and imperial British kingdom first articulated in the late 1540s. It then focuses on the issues aris…
Why Kosovo doesn’t matter, and how it should
Certeine Matters Concerning the Realme of Scotland
Although historians have long been aware of the range of printed and manuscript treatises that was prompted by the Union of 1603, little attention has been paid to a genre of printed works published in the years immediately before and after 1603 that were specifically concerned with Scotland and the Stewart lineage rather than with debating the idea of Britain. This article explores this literature in detail and uncovers the extent to which the S…
The State of Scottish History
Andrew Melville and Humanism in Renaissance Scotland, 1545–1622, by Ernest R. Holloway III
Andrew Melville looms large in accounts of the reign of James VI and I, primarily as a clerical politician as unrelenting as he was naïve in his defence of Presbyterianism, whose defiant description of his royal master as ‘God’s silly vassal’ was trumped by his imprisonment in the Tower of London at the king’s command and subsequent banishment into French exile. If occasionally also characterised as an educational reformer, bent on the transforma…
Debating Britain in Seventeenth-Century Scotland
This article deploys the concept of multiple monarchy as a means of reassessing the constitutional relationship between Scotland and England from the union of the crowns in 1603 to the union of parliaments in 1707. It argues that the Scots’ belief in their kingdom's historic independence, symbolised by the Stuart dynasty itself, led them to conceive of the union with England as one of equals, but that such parity of status and esteem was rendered…
Jane Dawson, John Knox
John Knox and the British Reformations
Dame Scotia and the Commonweal
Robert Wedderburn’s Complaynt of Scotland (Paris, 1550) has attracted surprisingly little attention from modern scholars. Although available in an accessible critical edition since 1979, no analysis of its context, sources and polemical purposes has been undertaken in recent scholarship. This article redresses this imbalance, reading the Complaynt as part of the ideological warfare that accompanied the English crown’s ‘Rough Wooing’ of Scotland i…
Multiple Monarchy and Scottish Identity
Early modern geopolitics were largely driven by dynastic imperatives – births, marriages and deaths among Europe's royal families – and this article approaches the union of 1603 from the perspective of J. H. Elliott's A Europe of Composite Monarchies . Thus, it explores how Scots perceived their place within this new dynastic empire and the hopes and fears their new relationship with England engendered. It begins, however, by examining the baptis…
The Declaration of Arbroath in print, 1680–1705
This article examines the circumstances in which the Declaration of Arbroath was first printed in 1680 by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh and the original manuscript on which Mackenzie’s text was based (NRS SP13/7). It then traces its subsequent print history between the Revolution of 1689–90 and the Union of Parliaments in 1707 both in Latin and in an English translation that first appeared in 1689. It locates the Declaration within the broade…
History (13 works) · Scottish History and National Identity (12 works) · Art (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · History (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Historical Studies of British Isles (5 works)