Prof Roger Mason
Professor Roger Mason
MA, PhD (Edin.), FRHistS
Contact Details
E-mail - ram@st-andrews.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 462882
Fax - +44 (0)1334 462914
Teaching and Research Interests
Political thought and culture in late medieval and early modern Scotland; the development of national consciousness and identities in Britain, 1100-1700; and Renaissance and Reformation studies. Professor Mason is a former co-editor of the Scottish Historical Review, and is currently general editor of the New Edinburgh History of Scotland. He supervises postgraduate students in a wide range of topics relating to the Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland and is co-director of the History of the University Project and Director of the Institute of Scottish Historical Research.
Main Publications
- John Knox on Rebellion (Cambridge University Press, 1994) [Details]
- Scots and Britons: Scottish Political Thought and the Union of 1603, (Cambridge University Press, 1994)
- Kingship and the Commonweal: Political Thought in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland (Tuckwell Press, 1998) [Details]
- John Knox and the British Reformations (Ashgate, 1998) [Details]
- A Dialogue on the Law of Kingship among the Scots, a critical edition and translation of George Buchanan's 'De Iure Regni apud Scotos Dialogus' (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History, Ashgate, 2004) [Details]
- George Buchanan's Law of Kingship: "De Iure Regni Apud Scotos Dialogus" (Saltire Society, 2006) [Details]
- George Buchanan: Political Thought in Early Modern Britain and Europe (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History), ( Ashgate, 2012) [Details]
Administrative Duties
Director of the Institue of Scottish Historical Research
Co-Ordinator MLitt in Scottish Historical Studies
Teaching Duties
Participates in the teaching of Second Level Scottish History and offers the following Honours courses:
- The Marian Moment: Politics and Ideology in Mary Stewart’s Britain
- Debating Britain: Anglo-Scottish Unionism, 1521-1707
Contributes to the following taught postgraduate modules:
- Peoples and Identities in Scotland
- Religion and Identity in Early Modern Britain
- Aspects of the Reformation
Research Students
- Elizabeth Tapscott, Propaganda, persuasion and 'public opinion' in Reformation Scotland
- Martyna Mirecka, 'Poland - Lithuania in British Political Thought 1573-1707'
- Andy Drinnon, 'Apocalypticism in 17th Century Scotland'
- Elizabeth Rhodes, 'The Reformation and Landownership in 16th Century St Andrews'
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