The British Union: A Critical Edition And Translation Of David Hume Of Godscroft's De Unione Insulae Britannicae (st Andrews Studies In Reformation History)

De Unione Insulae Britannicae (The British Union) is a unique seventeenth-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. The tract was written in two parts. Published in London in 1605, the first part provides a general outline of the imperative of union. The second consists of political and constitutional proposals whereby such a union might be achieved. Its publication was suppressed and it exists only in manuscript. This is the first translation of the tract. 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 nineteenth century. Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 a. The Scottish Commonwealth: From George Buchanan to David Hume 1 b. Britain's Lost Renaissance: From Citizen to Subject 24 c. David Hume and Radical Britain 35 d. The De unione and its Fate 47 Tractatus Primus 55 Tractatus Secundus 135 Andreas Melvinus Davidi Humio/Andrew Melville to David Hume 136 Ad Lectorem/To the Reader 140 Chapter 1: Argumentum/The Argument: The Bonds of Union 142 Chapter 2, Title 1: Nomen/The Name: Britannia 154 Chapter 3, Title 2: Symbolum et Insignia/Emblems and Insignia 162 Chapter 4, Title 3: Foedera et Edicta/Treaties and Ordinances 172 Chapter 5, Title 4: Concilia/The Councils 176 Chapter 6, Title 5: Comitia/Parliament 184 Chapter 7, Title 6: Officia/Offices 192 Chapter 8, Title 7: Moneta/Currency 196 Chapter 9, Title 8: Commercium/Commerce 198 Chapter 10, Title 9: Judicia et Leges/Laws and the Courts 200 Chapter 11, Title 10: Immunitates et Privilegia/ Immunities and Privileges 206 Chapter 12, Title 11: Conversatio/Association 208 Chapter 12, Title 12: Exhortatio/Exhortation 210 Chapter 12, Title 13: Connubia ac Matrimonia/Marriage 212 Chapter 12, Title 14: Liberorum Educatio, et Scholae/Education 214 Chapter 12, Title 15: Coloniae/Colonies 216 Chapter 13, Title 16: Relligio/Religion 224 Chapter 14, Title 17: Sacramentum/The Oath 250 Chapter 15, Title 18: Equites/A British Order of Knighthood 252 Chapter 16, Title 19: Visitatio Triennalis/Triennial Visitations 256 Chapter 17, Title 20: Societas/Society 260 Chapter 18, Title 21: Preces/Prayers for Britain 278 Chapter 19: Argumentumn: Totius Tractatus Summa/ The Summary of the Argument 284 Chapter 20: Argumentum: Excusatio omissorum./ The Argument: An apologia for the omissions and faults, and for matters on which the author has spent too little time 304. "De Unione Insulae Britannicae (The British Union) is a unique seventeenth-century tract that urged the fusion of the Scottish and English kingdoms into a new British commonwealth with a radically new British identity. It's 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." "The tract was written in two parts. Published in London in 1605, the first part provides a general outline of the imperative of union. The second consists of political and constitutional proposals whereby such a union might be achieved. Its publication was suppressed and it exists only in manuscript. This is the first translation of the tract."--Jacket "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. This is a translation of the tract, the publication of which was suppressed.