Court, Kirk, and Community: Scotland 1470-1625

ISBN-13: 9780748619405 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 280 str.

University o Jenny (was Honorary Fellow in Scottish History

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This essential history focuses on society and religious life in Reformation Scotland from 1470 to 1625. Now re-issued in the popular New History of Scotland series, with a contextual foreword by Keith Brown as tribute to the career of Jenny Wormald, who did so much to transform our understanding of early modern Scotland.

The book traces the turbulent and often calamitous evolution of Scotland from medieval and feudal to the modern state. Whilst undergoing the transformation in religious life from Catholic to Protestant, Scotland also had to contend with a changing monarchy, war and government.

This introductory text covers all the key events of the period including Scotland's alliances with France, treaties with the English and the Union of the Crowns. At the heart of the book is a detailed examination of the spiritual origins and secular effects of the Reformation as it transformed root and branch the older medieval structure of Scotland.

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Acknowledgements
Foreword by Keith Brown

I Renaissance Scotland: the Reigns of James III, IV, and V
1. Politics and Government
2. The Local Community
3. Town and Country
4. Poets, Scholars, and Gentlemen

II The Reformation
5. The Pre-Reformation Church
6. The Growth of Protestantism
7. The Reformation
8. The Establishment of the Reformed Church

III Renaissance Scotland: the Reigns of Mary and James VI
9. The King’s Government
10. The Local Community Disturbed
11. Cultural Achievements

Epilogue: Scotland after 1603
A Note on Further Reading
Appendix: Chronological Table
Index