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Who was Hector Boece?

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Hector Boece , 1465?-1536?, Scottish historian.

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Magazine article from: Irish Literary Supplement ...a wide range of Latin and English printed sources with references to Ireland. Two of the most prominent models were Hector Boece's [Boetius] Scotorum historiai and the Venerable Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. Cunningham maintains...
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Magazine article from: History Today ...Holinshed. Holinshed, in turn, based his account of Macbeth, which deals with events between 1040 and 1057, on Hector Boece's Latin Scotorum Historia (1526). His King Lear was taken from Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae...
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