John Knox has seldom been taken seriously as a literary figure; in fact it is often assumed that he was hostile to art of any kind. This study analyses John Knox s style of writing and suggests that Knox was one of the most highly rhetorical of all the sixteenth-century prose writers, although his prose was never decorative.
Early chapters set Knox in his proper context by focusing on Scottish prose from John Ireland s Meroure of Wyssdome, through to The Complaynt of Scotland, before examining Knox s admonitory public epistles, his personal correspondence, and his more...