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Bookmark or Share- George Buchanan - Mary Queen of ScotsBuchanan wrote verses in honour of Mary Fleming, who was chosen as ‘Queen of the Bean’ on Twelfth Night in 1564 after finding a hidden bean in her slice of a specially baked ‘Twelfth Cake’. This nominated her as Queen for a day wearing a Crown and seated in state on the throne.
- George Buchanan | Scottish Humanist, Poet, Historian - BritannicaGeorge Buchanan was a Scottish Humanist, educator, and man of letters, who was an eloquent critic of corruption and inefficiency in church and state during the period of the Reformation in Scotland. He was also known throughout Europe as a scholar and a Latin poet.
- George Buchanan (1506-1582) – an early Scottish humanistGeorge Buchanan can justifiably be seen as an important ’embryonic’ humanist in a century of significant debate and change in the nature and future of the Christian religion in Scotland and Europe.
- George Buchanan - Our History - University of EdinburghGeorge Buchanan (1506-82), was a Scottish Renaissance humanist, poet and reformer, widely regarded as the finest writer in Latin of his century. Buchanan studied and taught in several European universities. On his return to Scotland he lent his support to the reformers, often at grave personal risk.
- George Buchanan - Renaissance and Reformation - Oxford BibliographiesBuchanan is best known to early modern historians as the polemicist for the revolutionary party that forced Mary Stuart to abdicate from the throne of Scotland in 1567 in favor of her infant son, James.
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