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CLERGY IN EARLY MODERN SCOTLAND

A nuanced approach to the role played by clerics at a turbulent time for religious affairs. From the early percolation of Protestant thought in the sixteenth century through to the controversies and upheaval of the civil wars in the seventeenth century, the clergy were at the heart of religious chan...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [S.l.] : BOYDELL PRESS, 2021.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; Chris R. Langley, Catherine E. McMillan and Russell Newton ; ; Part I. Themes ; 1. Exhortations and Expectations: Preaching about the Ideal Minister in Post-Reformation Scotland; Michelle D. Brock ; 2. Ministers and the Bible in Early Modern Scotland; Russell Newton ; 3. The Protestant Clergy and Poor Relief, 1560-1660; John McCallum and Helen Gair ; 4. Scotland's 'Holy Households': Wives and Children of Reformed ministers; Janay Nugent and L. Rae Stauffer ; 5. Anticlericalism in Early Modern Scotland?; Chris R. Langley ; ; Part II. Case Studies ; 6. Pastors in Search of a Congregation: Clerical Calls for Reform Before 1546; Elizabeth Tapscott ; 7. 'Doctrein' or 'Filthie Speachis'? The St Andrews Ministers and the Politics of the 1590s; Michael F. Graham ; 8. Clerical Culture and Island Logic in Early Modern Orkney; Peter Marshall ; 9. 'Gryt Abuse is Found in this Toune': James Sharpe and Moral Reformation in South Leith, 1639-45; Claire McNulty ; 10. Pastoral Cares, Covenant, and Courtship in John Dury's Personal Correspondence, 1641-5; Felicity Lyn Maxwell ; 11. 'Wings of the Soul': Moderating Emotion in the Preaching of Hugh Binning (1627-53); Nathan C. J. Hood ; ; Afterword; Jane Dawson ; ; Bibliography; Index