Scotland's Long Reformation: New Perspectives on Scottish Religion, C. 1500-c. 1660 (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History)

Exploring processes of religious change in early-modern Scotland, this collection of essays takes a long-term perspective to consider developments in belief, identity, church structures and the social context of religion from the late-fifteenth century through to the mid-seventeenth century. The volume examines the ways in which tensions and conflicts with origins in the mid-sixteenth century continued to impact upon Scotland in the often violent seventeenth century, while also tracing deep continuities in Scotland's religious, cultural and intellectual life. The essays, the fruits of new research in the field, are united by a concern to appreciate fully the ambiguity of religious identity in post-Reformation Scotland, and to move beyond simplistic notions of a straightforward and unidirectional transition from Catholicism to Protestantism. -- Amazon.com Scotland’s Long Reformation: New Perspectives on Scottish Religion, c. 1500–c. 1660 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Preface 8 List of Tables and Figures 9 List of Abbreviations 10 Notes on Contributors 11 Introduction 14 1: Property and Piety: Donations to Holy Trinity Church, St Andrews 40 2: Burgh Government and Reformation: Stirling, c. 1530–1565 62 3: ‘Fatheris and Provisioners of the Puir’: Kirk Sessions and Poor Relief in Post-Reformation Scotland 82 4: ‘A Sweet Love-Token betwixt Christ and His Church’: Kirk, Communion and the Search for Further Reformation, 1646–1658 100 5: ‘Out of Their Reasonless Rationalls’: Liturgical Interpretation in the Scottish Reformations 125 6: Reformed Scholasticism, Proto-Empiricism and the Intellectual ‘Long Reformation’ in Scotland: The Philosophy of the ‘Aberdeen Doctors’, c. 1619–c. 1641 162 7: Declining His Majesty’s Authority: Treason Revisited in the Case of John Ogilvie 192 8: Divided by a Common Faith? Protestantism and Union in Post-Reformation Britain 215 Index 240