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Author: John McCallum
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2018-08-13
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1474427286
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the intersection of Samuel Beckett's thirty-second playlet Breath with the visual arts.
Author: John McCallum
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Published: 2018
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9781474427296
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the intersection of Samuel Beckett's thirty-second playlet Breath with the visual arts.
Author: John McCallum (Historian)
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ISBN-13: 9781474453929
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this work, John McCallum sets out the importance of charity in Scottish Reformation studies. Based on extensive archival research involving more than 30 parishes, he sheds new light on the practice of poor relief in the century following the Reformation.
Author: Michelle D. Brock
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1783276193
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A nuanced approach to the role played by clerics at a turbulent time for religious affairs.
Author: Allan Kennedy
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2024-06-04
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1837650233
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An exploration of the diverse lived experiences of marginality in Scottish society from the sixteen to the eighteenth century. Throughout the early modern period, Scottish society was constructed around an expectation of social conformity: people were required to operate within a relatively narrow range of acceptable identities and behaviours. Those who did not conform to this idealised standard, or who were in some fundamental way different from the prescribed norm, were met with suspicion. Such individuals often attracted both criticism and discrimination, forcing them to live confirmed to the social margins. Focusing on a range of marginalised groups, including the poor, migrants, ethnic minorities, indentured workers and women, the contributors to this book explore what it was like to live at the boundaries of social acceptability, what mechanisms were involved in policing the divide between "mainstream" and "marginal", and what opportunities existed for personal or collective fulfilment. The result is a fresh perspective on early modern Scotland, one that not only recovers the stories of people long excluded from historical discussion, but also offers a deeper understanding of the ordering assumptions of society more generally. Specific topics addressed range from the marginalisation of people with disabilities in the domestic sphere to female sex workers, and the place of executioners in society.
Author: Ian Hazlett
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-12-13
Total Pages: 796
ISBN-13: 9004335951
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland deals with the making, shaping, and development of the Scottish Reformation. 28 authors offer new analyses of various features of a religious revolution and select personalities in evolving theological, cultural, and political contexts.
Author: Karie Schultz
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2024-05-31
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1474493130
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During the Scottish Revolution (1637-1651), royalists and Covenanters appealed to Scottish law, custom and traditional views on kingship to debate the limits of King Charles I's authority. But they also engaged with the political ideas of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Protestant and Catholic intellectuals beyond the British Isles. This book explores the under-examined European context for Scottish political thought by analysing how royalists and Covenanters adapted Lutheran, Calvinist, and Catholic political ideas to their own debates about church and state. In doing so, it argues that Scots advanced languages of political legitimacy to help solve a crisis about the doctrines, ceremonies and polity of their national church. It therefore reinserts the importance of ecclesiology to the development of early modern political theory.
Author: Bruce Gordon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-07-28
Total Pages: 736
ISBN-13: 0191044571
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism offers a comprehensive assessment of John Calvin and the tradition of Calvinism as it evolved from the sixteenth century to today. Featuring contributions from scholars who present the latest research on a pluriform religious movement that became a global faith. The volume focuses on key aspects of Calvin's thought and its diverse reception in Europe, the transatlantic world, Africa, South America, and Asia. Calvin's theology was from the beginning open to a wide range of interpretations and was never a static body of ideas and practices. Over the course of his life his thought evolved and deepened while retaining unresolved tensions and questions that created a legacy that was constantly evolving in different cultural contexts. Calvinism itself is an elusive term, bringing together Christian communities that claim a shared heritage but often possess radically distinct characters. The Handbook reveals fascinating patterns of continuity and change to demonstrate how the movement claimed the name of the Genevan reformer but was moulded by an extraordinary range of religious, intellectual and historical influences, from the Enlightenment and Darwinism to indigenous African beliefs and postmodernism. In its global contexts, Calvinism has been continuously reimagined and reinterpreted. This collection throws new light on the highly dynamic and fluid nature of a deeply influential form of Christianity.
Author: Timothy Slonosky
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2024-05-31
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1399510258
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Hannah Holtschneider
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2019-07-31
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1474452612
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jews acculturated to Scotland within one generation and quickly inflected Jewish culture in a Scottish idiom. This book analyses the religious aspects of this transition through a transnational perspective on migration in the first three decades of the twentieth century.
