David Hume of Godscroft

"David Home" redirects here. For other uses, see David Home (disambiguation).

David Hume or Home of Godscroft (1558–1629) was a Scottish historian and political theorist, poet and controversialist, a major intellectual figure in Jacobean Scotland. It has been said that "Hume marks the culmination of the Scottish humanist tradition."[1]

Confusion is possible with David Hume or Home, Scottish minister at Duras in France, a contemporary: they had quite different views on the union with England.[2]

  1. ^ Allan I. MacInnes; Arthur H. Williamson (2006). Shaping the Stuart World, 1603 – 1714: The Atlantic Connection ; [contains a Selection of Papers Presented at Two Symposia on the Shaping the Stuart World, 1603 – 1714, the First at the Huntington Library, Calif., in Jan. 2001 and the Second at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, in June 2002]. Brill. p. 44. ISBN 90-04-14711-X.
  2. ^ David Hume; Paul J. McGinnis; Arthur H. Williamson (2002). The British Union: a critical edition and translation of David Hume of Godscroft's De Unione Insulae Britannicae. Ashgate. pp. 50–1. ISBN 978-0-7546-0340-5.