Civic Reformation and Religious Change in Sixteenth-Century Scottish Towns
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781399510226 (ISBN)
Civic Reformation and Religious Change in Sixteenth-Century Scottish Towns demonstrates the crucial role of Scotland’s townspeople in the dramatic Protestant Reformation of 1560. It shows that Scottish Protestants were much more successful than their counterparts in France and the Netherlands at introducing religious change because they had the acquiescence of urban populations. As town councils controlled critical aspects of civic religion, their explicit cooperation was vital to ensuring that the reforms introduced at the national level by the military and political victory of the Protestants were actually implemented.
Focusing on the towns of Dundee, Stirling and Haddington, this book argues that the councillors and inhabitants gave this support because successive crises of plague, war and economic collapse shook their faith in the existing Catholic order and left them fearful of further conflict. As a result, the Protestants faced little popular opposition, and Scotland avoided the popular religious violence and division which occurred elsewhere in Europe.
Timothy Slonosky is a Professor in the Humanities Department of Dawson College. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, under the supervision of Margo Todd. He is the author of “Burgh Government and Reformation: Stirling c.1530-65” in Scotland’s Long Reformation, edited by John McCallum (Brill, 2016).
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: The Burghs
Chapter 1: The Burghs: Setting and Economy
Chapter 2: Governance in the burghs
Chapter 3: The Civic Church
Chapter 4: The Urban Clergy
Part Two: Discussion and Disaster
Chapter 5: The spread of new ideas 1520-1547
Chapter 6: Plague and War: 1543-50
Chapter 7: Recovery and Reaction 1550-1558
Part Three: Reformation from within and without
Chapter 8: Creating Protestant Towns
Conclusion
Works Cited
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.05.2024 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Scottish Religious Cultures: Historical Perspectives |
| Zusatzinfo | 4 black and white illustrations, 4 black and white tables |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781399510226 / 9781399510226 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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