Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Contexts -- 1 Writing the Scottish Reformation -- 2 Language attitudes and choice in the Scottish Reformation -- 3 'The Divine Fury of the Muses': Neo-Latin poetry in early modern Scotland -- Part II: Texts -- 4 Allegory and Reformation poetics in David Lindsay's Ane Satire of the Thrie Estaitis (1552-54) -- 5 John Knox and A Godly Letter: Fashioning and refashioning the exilic 'I' -- 6 Theological controversy in the wake of John Knox's The First Blast of the Trumpet -- 7 King James VI and I as a religious writer -- 8 Calvinism, counter-Reformation and conversion: Alexander Montgomerie's religious poetry -- 9 English bards and Scotch poetics: Scotland's literary influence and sixteenth-century English religious verse -- 10 Hume of Godscroft on parity -- Part III: Reception -- 11 Political theatre or heritage culture? Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis in production -- 12 A book for Lollards and Protestants: Murdoch Nisbet's New Testament -- A few concluding observations -- Index.