Associate Editor of Scottish History Society
Investigating both the experience and the exercise of absolute power, Goodare has produced a masterly account of the symbiotic relationship that subsisted between the absolutist state and the early modern society it ruled ... Challenging conventional historiographical dichotomies, Goodare also provides an insightful account of church-state relations under James VI. Parliamentary History An important contribution to our understanding of the Scottish polity, its institutions of governance, the dynamic qualities of political and social change in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ... this is a book that carves out for Scotland its own revolution in governance. Scottish Archives, The Journal of the Scottish Records Association Its overall quality and the soundness of its argument are the text's most important strengths. State and Society in Early Modern Scotland is engaging and informative, providing a wealth of detail and systematizing that detail into a compelling account of the rise of a centralized sovereign state in early modern Scotland. Sixteenth Century Journal Well-written, insightful study ... Goodare provides a wide-ranging, well-argued, and convincing account of the establishment of a centralized state in Scotland. Sixteenth Century Journal This is a serious book that does address profound questions about the nature of government in early modern Scotland. Scottish Historical Review
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