George Buchanan and the Sidney Circle
1948; University of Pennsylvania Press; Volume: 12; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/3815873
ISSN1544-399X
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Art and Culture Studies
Resumom HE Scottish biographers of George Buchanan-and there are ifew others-have been patriotically inclined to ignore the English connections of the sixteenth-century humanist and reformer. They have, for example, paid little attention to the close relationship which existed between Buchanan and the friends and associates of Sir Philip Sidney in England during the decade preceding Buchanan's death in 1582. Students of the Sidney circle, on their side, have been equally inattentive to the evidence which links Buchanan with this group and throws new light on the composition and interests of the group itself. The published correspondence between Buchanan and contemporary Englishmen is not large, but in that correspondence, and in the references to Buchanan made elsewhere by his admirers in England, we can find information which indicates the degree to which Buchanan shared the friendship, attitudes, and ideals of the men who looked to Sidney and Leicester for leadership. I propose to indicate in the first part of this study the personal contacts and the political interests which turned Buchanan's attention to the Sidney circle between 1572 and 1582. Then I shall describe the particular aspects of Buchanan's character and work which were expressly admired during this same period by the group in England.
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