Description: Presents a new way of examining the historical significance and endurance of Mary, Queen of Scots
Brief description: Steven J. Reid is Professor of Early Modern Scottish History and Culture at the University of Glasgow. He has published widely on intellectual, religious and political culture in the reigns of Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI and I. His books include Humanism and Calvinism (Ashgate, 2011), which won the Senior Hume Brown Prize in Scottish History, and The Early Life of James: A Long Apprenticeship 1566-1585 (Birlinn, 2023).
Review Quotes: This book provides a genuinely fresh contribution to Marian studies, not least in the innovation of the approaches taken towards the study of literary and material culture and to Mary's representations across history. It is critical, scholarly and detailed, as well as being consistently insightful, fulfilling the project's underlying thesis that "her story is continually repurposed to reflect the society telling it".--Janet Dickinson "The Art Newspaper"