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Professor Steven Reid

  • Professor of Early Modern Scottish History and Culture (History)

telephone: 01413304149
email: Steven.Reid@gla.systa-s.com

Room 301, History, 9 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875

Research interests

My research interests lie broadly in the intellectual, political and religious history of Scotland between c. 1450 and c. 1650, especially the life and reign of James VI in Scotland (1567-1603). I also have a strong secondary interest in Mary Queen of Scots, particularly her relationship with James and the way she has been remembered and reimagined in the centuries since her removal from the Scottish throne. I would be happy to supervise postgraduate research in any of the following areas:

  • The life and reign of King James VI and I (1567-1625). 
  • The life and reign of Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1567/1587), and any aspect of her cultural afterlife.
  • Latin texts by Scottish authors and the role of Latin in Scottish cultural life, c.1480-1700. 
  • The career and writings of the divine and educational reformer Andrew Melville (1545-1622).
  • The Protestant reform of Scottish higher education, c.1560-1625. 
  • Developments in the Scottish church, c. 1450-c. 1650.
  • The impact of the European Renaissance and Reformation on Scotland, and vice versa.

My most recent monograph, The Early Life of James VI: A Long Apprenticeship, 1566-1585 (Edinburgh: John Donald, 2023) is the first detailed narrative of James’ childhood and rise to power, and fundamentally re-assesses James' early court, household, his relationship with his mother and key favourites, and the factional struggles of this period.

I am currently working on a short monograph on the life and career of Archbishop Patrick Adamson (1537-1592), which has a stronger emphasis on church-state relations in the first three decades after the Scottish Protestant Reformation of 1560.

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2026

Reid, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2026) The First Jacobean Archbishop of St Andrews: The Life and Career of Patrick Adamson (1537-1592). Series: St Andrews Studies in Scottish History. Boydell and Brewer: Woodbridge and Rochester, NY. (In Press)

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2026) Family, performativity and justice in early modern Scotland: elite display and the death of the fourth Earl of Atholl, 1579. Scottish Historical Review, 105(1), pp. 1-23. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2026.0752)

2025

Carty, Taylar, Gallagher, Michael, Reid, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 and Rankin, Moira (2025) A Critical Reappraisal of the University of Glasgow’s History, 1870-2024. Project Report. University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.374534).

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2025) One King, and Many: new perspectives on James's personal reign in Scotland, c. 1578-c. 1603. In: Courtney, Alexander and Questier, Michael (eds.) James VI and I: Kingship, Government and Religion. Routledge: Abingdon and New York, pp. 19-43. ISBN 9781003319764 (doi: 10.4324/9781003319764-2)

2024

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (Ed.) (2024) The Afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781399523530

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (Ed.) (2024) Rethinking the Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland: Essays in Honour of Roger A. Mason. Series: St Andrews studies in Scottish history. Boydell Press: Woodbridge. ISBN 9781837651610

Innes, Sim ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0607-9675, Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 and Verweij, Sebastiaan (2024) Towards a first-line index of premodern poetry in Scots, Latin, and Scottish Gaelic. Studies in Scottish Literature, 50(2), (Accepted for Publication)

2023

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2023) The Early Life of James VI: A Long Apprenticeship, 1566-1585. John Donald: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781910900185

2022

Reid, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 and Dulau-Beveridge, Anne (2022) The Afterlife of Mary Queen of Scots. [Exhibitions]

2021

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2021) Cultures of Calvinism in early modern Scotland. In: Gordon, Bruce and Trueman, Carl R. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 220-237. ISBN 9780198728818 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198728818.013.13)

2020

Reid, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 and McOmish, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4482-3378 (Eds.) (2020) Corona Borealis: Scottish Neo-Latin Poets on King James VI and his Reign, 1566–1603. Association for Scottish Literary Studies: Glasgow. ISBN 9781906841379

Reid, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 and Dulau, Anne (2020) ‘In my End is my Beginning’: The Memorialisation and Cultural Afterlife of Mary Queen of Scots. [Website]

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2020) On the Edge of Reason: The Scottish Universities between Reformation and Enlightenment, 1560–1660. In: Broadie, Alexander (ed.) Scottish Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century. Series: A History of Scottish Philosophy. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 33-49. ISBN 9780198769842 (doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198769842.003.0003)

2018

Innes, Sim ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0607-9675 and Reid, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2018) Expressions of faith: religious writing. In: Royan, Nicola (ed.) The International Companion to Scottish Literature 1400-1650. Series: International companions to Scottish literature (6). Scottish Literature International: Glasgow, pp. 60-78. ISBN 9781908980236

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2018) Riley (ed.), Icon Animorum or The Mirror of Minds. Scottish Historical Review, 97(1), pp. 125-127. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2018.0359)[Book Review]

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2018) Classical reception and erotic Latin poetry in Sixteenth-Century Scotland: the case of Thomas Maitland (ca. 1548–1572). In: Petrina, Alessandra and Johnston, Ian (eds.) The Impact of Latin Culture on Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing. Series: Studies in Medieval and early modern culture. Medieval Institute Publications: Kalamazoo, MI, pp. 3-40. ISBN 9781580442817 (doi: 10.2307/j.ctv19x4mn.5)

2017

Reid, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2017) 'Ane Uniformitie in Doctrine and good Order’: The Scottish Universities in the Age of the Covenant, 1638–1649. History of Universities, 29(2), pp. 13-41.

Kerr-Peterson, Miles and Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (Eds.) (2017) James VI and Noble Power in Scotland 1578-1603. Series: Routledge research in early modern history. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138946064

Kerr-Peterson, Miles and Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2017) Introduction. In: Kerr-Peterson, Miles and Reid, Steven J. (eds.) James VI and Noble Power in Scotland 1578-1603. Series: Routledge research in early modern history. Routledge: London, pp. 1-11. ISBN 9781138946064

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2017) Of bairns and bearded men: James VI and the Ruthven Raid. In: Reid, Steven J. and Kerr-Peterson, Miles (eds.) James VI and Noble Power in Scotland 1578-1603. Series: Routledge research in early modern history. Routledge: London, pp. 32-56. ISBN 9781138946064

2016

Reid, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2016) Reformed scholasticism, proto-empiricism and the intellectual 'Long Reformation' in Scotland: the philosophy of the 'Aberdeen Doctors', c. 1619-c. 1641. In: McCallum, John (ed.) Scotland's Long Reformation: New Perspectives on Scottish Religion, c. 1500-c. 1660. Series: St. Andrews studies in Reformation history. Brill: Leiden ; Boston, pp. 149-178. ISBN 9789004323933

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2016) A Latin renaissance in reformation Scotland? Print trends in Scottish Latin literature, c. 1480-1700. Scottish Historical Review, 95(1), pp. 1-29. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2016.0274)

Reid, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 and McOmish, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4482-3378 (Eds.) (2016) Neo-Latin Literature and Literary Culture in Early Modern Scotland. Series: Brill studies in intellectual history. Brill: Leiden. ISBN 9789004330719

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2016) France through the eyes of Scottish Neo-Latinists: snapshots from the Delitiae Peotarum Scotorum. In: Reid, Steven J. and McOmish, David (eds.) Neo-Latin Literature and Literary Culture in Early Modern Scotland. Series: Brill studies in intellectual history (260). Brill: Leiden, pp. 10-39. ISBN 9789004330719 (doi: 10.1163/9789004330733_003)

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2016) Introduction. In: Reid, Steven J. and McOmish, David (eds.) Neo-Latin Literature and Literary Culture in Early Modern Scotland. Series: Brill studies in intellectual history (260). Brill: Leiden, pp. 1-9. ISBN 9789004330719 (doi: 10.1163/9789004330733_002)

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2016) Renaissance and reformation: part 1: origins to 1633. In: Davies, Peter V., Ashworth, Susan, Durndell, Helen, Hoare, Peter, Richmond, Lesley and Smith, Graeme (eds.) The University of Glasgow Library: Friendly Shelves. The Friends of Glasgow University Library in association with the University Library: Glasgow, pp. 15-23. ISBN 9780993518508

2015

Reid, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 and McOmish, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4482-3378 (2015) Bridging the Continental Divide. Revised and updated in 2020. [Website]

2014

Reid, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2014) Andrew Melville: a Bibliography. In: Mason, Roger A. and Reid, Steven (eds.) Andrew Melville (1545-1622): Writings, Reception and Reputation. Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Ashgate: Farnham, pp. 257-292. ISBN 9781409426936

Reid, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2014) Melville's Anti-Episcopal Poetry: the Andreae Melvini Musae. In: Mason, Roger A and Reid, Steven (eds.) Andrew Melville (1545-1622): Writings, Reception and Reputation. Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Ashgate: Farnham, pp. 47-74. ISBN 9781409426936

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2014) Andrew Melville and the Law of Kingship. In: Mason, Roger A and Reid, Steven J. (eds.) Andrew Melville (1545-1622): Writings, Reception and Reputation. Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Ashgate: Farnham, pp. 47-74. ISBN 9781409426936

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 and Mason, Roger A. (2014) Introduction. In: Mason, Roger A and Reid, Steven (eds.) Andrew Melville (1545-1622): Writings, Reception and Reputation. Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Ashgate: Farnham, pp. 1-10. ISBN 9781409426936

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 and Mason, Roger A. (Eds.) (2014) Andrew Melville (1545-1622): Writings, Reception, and Reputation. Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Ashgate: Farnham. ISBN 9781409474401

2013

Reid, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (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, pp. 397-414. ISBN 9781443844819

2012

Reid, S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2012) The Parish of Govan and the Principals of the University of Glasgow, 1577-1621. Friends of Govan old lecture series(8),

2011

Reid, S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 and Wilson, E.A. (Eds.) (2011) Ramus, Pedagogy and the Liberal Arts: Ramism in Britain and the Wider World. Ashgate: Farnham. ISBN 9780754667940

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2011) Andrew Melville and Scottish Ramism: a re-assessment. In: Reid, Steven J. and Wilson, E.A. (eds.) Ramus, Pedagogy and the Liberal Arts: Ramism in Britain and the Wider World. Ashgate: Farnham, pp. 25-46. ISBN 9780754667940

Reid, S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2011) Humanism and Calvinism: Andrew Melville and the Universities of Scotland, 1560-1625. Series: St Andrews studies in reformation history. Ashgate: Farnham, UK. ISBN 9781409400059

2010

Reid, S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (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. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2009) Andrew Melville, sacred chronology and world history: the Carmina Danielis 9 and the Antichristus. Innes Review, 60(1), pp. 1-21. (doi: 10.3366/E0020157X09000390)

2007

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

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.

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Articles

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2026) Family, performativity and justice in early modern Scotland: elite display and the death of the fourth Earl of Atholl, 1579. Scottish Historical Review, 105(1), pp. 1-23. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2026.0752)

Innes, Sim ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0607-9675, Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 and Verweij, Sebastiaan (2024) Towards a first-line index of premodern poetry in Scots, Latin, and Scottish Gaelic. Studies in Scottish Literature, 50(2), (Accepted for Publication)

Reid, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2017) 'Ane Uniformitie in Doctrine and good Order’: The Scottish Universities in the Age of the Covenant, 1638–1649. History of Universities, 29(2), pp. 13-41.

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2016) A Latin renaissance in reformation Scotland? Print trends in Scottish Latin literature, c. 1480-1700. Scottish Historical Review, 95(1), pp. 1-29. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2016.0274)

Reid, S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2012) The Parish of Govan and the Principals of the University of Glasgow, 1577-1621. Friends of Govan old lecture series(8),

Reid, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2009) Andrew Melville, sacred chronology and world history: the Carmina Danielis 9 and the Antichristus. Innes Review, 60(1), pp. 1-21. (doi: 10.3366/E0020157X09000390)

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

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.

Books

Reid, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2026) The First Jacobean Archbishop of St Andrews: The Life and Career of Patrick Adamson (1537-1592). Series: St Andrews Studies in Scottish History. Boydell and Brewer: Woodbridge and Rochester, NY. (In Press)

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2023) The Early Life of James VI: A Long Apprenticeship, 1566-1585. John Donald: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781910900185

Reid, S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2011) Humanism and Calvinism: Andrew Melville and the Universities of Scotland, 1560-1625. Series: St Andrews studies in reformation history. Ashgate: Farnham, UK. ISBN 9781409400059

Book Sections

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2025) One King, and Many: new perspectives on James's personal reign in Scotland, c. 1578-c. 1603. In: Courtney, Alexander and Questier, Michael (eds.) James VI and I: Kingship, Government and Religion. Routledge: Abingdon and New York, pp. 19-43. ISBN 9781003319764 (doi: 10.4324/9781003319764-2)

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2021) Cultures of Calvinism in early modern Scotland. In: Gordon, Bruce and Trueman, Carl R. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 220-237. ISBN 9780198728818 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198728818.013.13)

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2020) On the Edge of Reason: The Scottish Universities between Reformation and Enlightenment, 1560–1660. In: Broadie, Alexander (ed.) Scottish Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century. Series: A History of Scottish Philosophy. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 33-49. ISBN 9780198769842 (doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198769842.003.0003)

Innes, Sim ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0607-9675 and Reid, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2018) Expressions of faith: religious writing. In: Royan, Nicola (ed.) The International Companion to Scottish Literature 1400-1650. Series: International companions to Scottish literature (6). Scottish Literature International: Glasgow, pp. 60-78. ISBN 9781908980236

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2018) Classical reception and erotic Latin poetry in Sixteenth-Century Scotland: the case of Thomas Maitland (ca. 1548–1572). In: Petrina, Alessandra and Johnston, Ian (eds.) The Impact of Latin Culture on Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing. Series: Studies in Medieval and early modern culture. Medieval Institute Publications: Kalamazoo, MI, pp. 3-40. ISBN 9781580442817 (doi: 10.2307/j.ctv19x4mn.5)

Kerr-Peterson, Miles and Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2017) Introduction. In: Kerr-Peterson, Miles and Reid, Steven J. (eds.) James VI and Noble Power in Scotland 1578-1603. Series: Routledge research in early modern history. Routledge: London, pp. 1-11. ISBN 9781138946064

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2017) Of bairns and bearded men: James VI and the Ruthven Raid. In: Reid, Steven J. and Kerr-Peterson, Miles (eds.) James VI and Noble Power in Scotland 1578-1603. Series: Routledge research in early modern history. Routledge: London, pp. 32-56. ISBN 9781138946064

Reid, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2016) Reformed scholasticism, proto-empiricism and the intellectual 'Long Reformation' in Scotland: the philosophy of the 'Aberdeen Doctors', c. 1619-c. 1641. In: McCallum, John (ed.) Scotland's Long Reformation: New Perspectives on Scottish Religion, c. 1500-c. 1660. Series: St. Andrews studies in Reformation history. Brill: Leiden ; Boston, pp. 149-178. ISBN 9789004323933

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2016) France through the eyes of Scottish Neo-Latinists: snapshots from the Delitiae Peotarum Scotorum. In: Reid, Steven J. and McOmish, David (eds.) Neo-Latin Literature and Literary Culture in Early Modern Scotland. Series: Brill studies in intellectual history (260). Brill: Leiden, pp. 10-39. ISBN 9789004330719 (doi: 10.1163/9789004330733_003)

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2016) Introduction. In: Reid, Steven J. and McOmish, David (eds.) Neo-Latin Literature and Literary Culture in Early Modern Scotland. Series: Brill studies in intellectual history (260). Brill: Leiden, pp. 1-9. ISBN 9789004330719 (doi: 10.1163/9789004330733_002)

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2016) Renaissance and reformation: part 1: origins to 1633. In: Davies, Peter V., Ashworth, Susan, Durndell, Helen, Hoare, Peter, Richmond, Lesley and Smith, Graeme (eds.) The University of Glasgow Library: Friendly Shelves. The Friends of Glasgow University Library in association with the University Library: Glasgow, pp. 15-23. ISBN 9780993518508

Reid, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2014) Andrew Melville: a Bibliography. In: Mason, Roger A. and Reid, Steven (eds.) Andrew Melville (1545-1622): Writings, Reception and Reputation. Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Ashgate: Farnham, pp. 257-292. ISBN 9781409426936

Reid, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2014) Melville's Anti-Episcopal Poetry: the Andreae Melvini Musae. In: Mason, Roger A and Reid, Steven (eds.) Andrew Melville (1545-1622): Writings, Reception and Reputation. Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Ashgate: Farnham, pp. 47-74. ISBN 9781409426936

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2014) Andrew Melville and the Law of Kingship. In: Mason, Roger A and Reid, Steven J. (eds.) Andrew Melville (1545-1622): Writings, Reception and Reputation. Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Ashgate: Farnham, pp. 47-74. ISBN 9781409426936

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 and Mason, Roger A. (2014) Introduction. In: Mason, Roger A and Reid, Steven (eds.) Andrew Melville (1545-1622): Writings, Reception and Reputation. Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Ashgate: Farnham, pp. 1-10. ISBN 9781409426936

Reid, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (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, pp. 397-414. ISBN 9781443844819

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2011) Andrew Melville and Scottish Ramism: a re-assessment. In: Reid, Steven J. and Wilson, E.A. (eds.) Ramus, Pedagogy and the Liberal Arts: Ramism in Britain and the Wider World. Ashgate: Farnham, pp. 25-46. ISBN 9780754667940

Reid, S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (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

Book Reviews

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (2018) Riley (ed.), Icon Animorum or The Mirror of Minds. Scottish Historical Review, 97(1), pp. 125-127. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2018.0359)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (Ed.) (2024) The Afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781399523530

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (Ed.) (2024) Rethinking the Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland: Essays in Honour of Roger A. Mason. Series: St Andrews studies in Scottish history. Boydell Press: Woodbridge. ISBN 9781837651610

Reid, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 and McOmish, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4482-3378 (Eds.) (2020) Corona Borealis: Scottish Neo-Latin Poets on King James VI and his Reign, 1566–1603. Association for Scottish Literary Studies: Glasgow. ISBN 9781906841379

Kerr-Peterson, Miles and Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 (Eds.) (2017) James VI and Noble Power in Scotland 1578-1603. Series: Routledge research in early modern history. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138946064

Reid, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 and McOmish, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4482-3378 (Eds.) (2016) Neo-Latin Literature and Literary Culture in Early Modern Scotland. Series: Brill studies in intellectual history. Brill: Leiden. ISBN 9789004330719

Reid, Steven J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 and Mason, Roger A. (Eds.) (2014) Andrew Melville (1545-1622): Writings, Reception, and Reputation. Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Ashgate: Farnham. ISBN 9781409474401

Reid, S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 and Wilson, E.A. (Eds.) (2011) Ramus, Pedagogy and the Liberal Arts: Ramism in Britain and the Wider World. Ashgate: Farnham. ISBN 9780754667940

Research Reports or Papers

Carty, Taylar, Gallagher, Michael, Reid, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 and Rankin, Moira (2025) A Critical Reappraisal of the University of Glasgow’s History, 1870-2024. Project Report. University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.374534).

Exhibitions

Reid, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 and Dulau-Beveridge, Anne (2022) The Afterlife of Mary Queen of Scots. [Exhibitions]

Website

Reid, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 and Dulau, Anne (2020) ‘In my End is my Beginning’: The Memorialisation and Cultural Afterlife of Mary Queen of Scots. [Website]

Reid, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-2875 and McOmish, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4482-3378 (2015) Bridging the Continental Divide. Revised and updated in 2020. [Website]

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Grants

Since 2015 I have been co-investigator (with Anne Dulau-Beveridge of the Hunterian) on a large interdisciplinary project entitled ‘“In my end is my beginning”: the memorialisation and cultural afterlife of Mary Queen of Scots, 1567-present’. This project assembled over 40 academics, curators, writers and artists to examine why Mary Queen of Scots remains such an enduring subject of public fascination, despite the fact that she was only active as queen of Scotland for six years between 1561 and 1567. The project also looks at the ways in which Mary has been remembered and portrayed in Scotland over the centuries since her abdication, and how the view of her has changed in accordance with shifting values in Scottish culture and society. The project was funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh between 2018 and 2021, and its outputs so far include a Massive Open Online Course entitled 'The Life and Afterlife of Mary Queen of Scots' (hosted in partnership with Futurelearn) and a major exhibition on Mary’s life at the Hunterian Art Gallery. 

Between 2012 and 2015 I was the sole principal investigator for the AHRC-funded project Bridging the Continental Divide: neo-Latin and its cultural role in Jacobean Scotland. The project’s main output was a 350,000-word electronic critical edition and translation of a selection of poets from the Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum (Amsterdam, 1637), the largest anthology of Scottish Neo-Latin verse ever produced. The project also produced an edited collection of essays, a printed anthology of a selection of the poems, and a range of articles (details of these can be found on my publications page).

I was one of eleven researchers on Alexander Broadie's project, funded by a £90,000 Leverhulme Trust International Network Grant, which investigated the history and development of philosophy in seventeenth-century Scotland, and its linkages with philosophical practice in France in the same period. The project included five workshops and a closing conference between 2010 and 2013, and has multiple outcomes in press, including two books, and a website in development which will continue to be updated as an ongoing resource.

I was 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 taught a course on the history of the Scottish Reformation and its impact on Scotland’s cultural life. Whilst there I also continued my work on the neo-Latin poetry of Andrew Melville, the results of which appeared in the edited collection on Melville co-edited with Professor Roger Mason.

Supervision

  • Brown, Ashley
    Fraternity, feuds, and the academic bubble: Masculinities at Scotland’s universities between 1560-1606
  • Hay, Emily
    Quenis awne hand’: the literary agency of Mary Queen of Scots in shaping her own public image, 1567-1587
  • Kane, Kate
    The cultural afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Scotland.
  • Maclean, Cameron
    The Anglo-Scottish Monetary Union (1604-1707)

Teaching

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)  

Combined Honours/Postgraduate Module

  • The Life and Afterlife of Mary, Queen Of Scots 

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