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George Buchanan was a humanist writer and educationalist. His prolific literary and administrative activities exerted a significant influence upon intellectual culture in Scotland and Europe. He played a central role in the implementation of humanist educational reforms in France, Portugal, and Scotland. An accomplished Neo-Latin writer, he produced works in a remarkable variety of Neo-Latin genres and forms. Often addressing political and philosophical volatility across early-modern Europe, his works are pervasively informed by a stabilizing prescription of Stoic moral and natural philosophy.
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McOmish, D. (2017). Buchanan, George. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_465-2
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