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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Mary’s literary predilections were fostered by her humanist education at the French court, principally at St Germain-en-Laye and under the tutelage of Antoinette du Bourbon, the mother of Mary of Guise, and her uncle, the Cardinal of Guise. |
 | | Mary’s reflections acquire a more particularised religious resonance: in opposition to the Calvinist creed of predestination, Mary’s narrator argues that salvation is earned by the individual penitent and, in the increasingly personal, plangent tones of the poem’s second half, is merited by virtue of the abundant love which she has for God. |
 | | By the time of Mary’s death in 1587, the process of religious reform was firmly rooted in Scotland; her son, James, had acceded to the throne and the country had entered a period of relative political stability and cultural prosperity. |
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