School of Humanities / Sgoil nan Daonnachdan

Interlace panel from the Govan sarcophagus, carved for the bones of St Constantine, c. 900 AD

Dr Steven Reid

Dr Steven Reid
  • Lecturer (History)

telephone: 01413304149
email: Steven.Reid@glasgow.ac.uk


My research interests lie broadly in the intellectual and religious history of Scotland between c. 1450 and c. 1650, but I have particular interest in the following areas:

  • The impact of the European Renaissance and Reformation on Scotland, and vice versa.
  • The Protestant reform of Scottish higher education, 1560-1625.  
  • The career and writings of the divine and educational reformer Andrew Melville (1545-1622).
  • Developments in the Scottish church, c. 1450-c. 1650.
  • The reign of King James VI and I (1567-1625). 
  • Intellectual networks and the use of Neo-Latin in Scotland, 1570-1638.
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Number of items: 8.

2013

Reid, S. (2013) “Quasi Sybillae Divina Folia”: the anatomy of the Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum. In: Hadley-Williams , J. and McClure, J.D. (eds.) Fresche Fontanis: Studies in the Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Scotland. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge, UK, pp. 397-414. (In Press)

2012

Reid, S.J. (2012) The Parish of Govan and the Principals of the University of Glasgow, 1577-1621. Series: Friends of Govan old lecture series (8). Garthland Design and Print , Glasgow, UK.

2011

Reid, S.J. and Wilson, E.A., (Eds.) (2011) Ramus, Pedagogy and the Liberal Arts: Ramism in Britain and the Wider World. Ashgate , Farnham . ISBN 9780754667940

Reid, S.J. (2011) Humanism and Calvinism: Andrew Melville and the Universities of Scotland, 1560-1625. Series: St Andrews Studies In Reformation History . Ashgate , Aldershot, UK. ISBN 9781409400059

2010

Reid, S.J. (2010) Lecture notes on dialectic by John Malcolm, c.1584–6. In: Reid, N. and Boulay, M. (eds.) Treasures of St Andrews University Library. Third Millenium Publishing , London, UK, pp. 114-115. ISBN 9781906507152

2009

Reid, S. (2009) Andrew Melville, sacred chronology and world history: the Carmina Danielis 9 and the Antichristus. Innes Review, 60 (1). pp. 1-21. ISSN 0020-157X (doi:10.3366/E0020157X09000390)

2007

Reid, S.J. (2007) Aberdeen's 'Toun College': Marischal College, 1593-1623. Innes Review, 58 (2). pp. 173-195. ISSN 0020-157X

Reid, S.J. (2007) Early polemic by Andrew Melville: the Carmen Mosis (1574) and the St Bartholomew's day massacres. Renaissance and Reformation, 30 (4). pp. 63-82. ISSN 0034-429X

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I am the principal investigator in the successful AHRC funding bid for the project 'Bridging the Continental Divide: neo-Latin and its cultural role in Jacobean Scotland'. The project was awarded the grant in 2012.

I am one of eleven researchers on Alexander Broadie's project, funded by a £90,000 Leverhulme Trust International Network Grant, to investigate the history and development of philosophy in seventeenth-century Scotland, and its linkages with philosophical practice in France in the same period. The project includes five workshops and a closing conference, and commenced in November 2010 with a meeting at Glasgow University. It is scheduled to complete in November 2013, and has multiple projected outcomes including two books, and a website which will continue to be updated as an ongoing resource beyond the three years of the project.

I have been awarded a Fulbright Scholars Award, funded by the US-UK Fulbright Commission and the Scottish Government, to take up the post of visiting lecturer in Church History at Yale Divinity School between January and May 2012, where I will teach a course on the history of the Scottish Reformation and its impact on Scotland’s cultural life. Whilst there I will also be continuing my work on the neo-Latin poetry of Andrew Melville.

Sub-Honours Modules

• History 1A: Scotland’s Millenium, c. 1000-1999

Honours Modules

• Art, Culture and Patronage in Renaissance Scotland, 1406-1603
• Reformation! Europe in the Age of Religious War, 1517-1618
• The Reign of James VI, 1578-1603 (Special Subject)

Taught Postgraduate Modules

• Politics and Literature in Jacobean Scotland, 1578-1603 (with Dr Theo van Heijnsbergen)
• Directed readings in the Scottish Reformation