Sacred signs in reformation Scotland : interpreting worship, 1488-1590 / Stephen Mark Holmes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holmes, Stephen Mark.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reformation--Scotland.

Reformation.

Liturgics.

History.

Scotland.

Liturgics--Scotland--History--16th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

Sacred Signs in Reformation Scotland is the first study of how public worship was interpreted in Renaissance Scotland and offers a radically new way of understanding the Scottish Reformation. It first defines the history and method of 'liturgical interpretation' (using the methods of medieval Biblical exegesis to explain worship), then shows why it was central to medieval and early modern Western European religious culture. The rest of the book uses Scotland as a case study for a multidisciplinary investigation of the place of liturgical interpretation in this culture. Stephen Mark Holmes uses the methods of 'book history' to discover the place of liturgical interpretation in education, sermons, and pastoral practice and also investigates its impact on material culture, especially church buildings and furnishings. By studying books and their owners, Holmes reveals networks of clergy in Scotland committed to the liturgy and Catholic reform, especially the 'Aberdeen liturgists'. He corrects current scholarship by showing that their influence lasted beyond 1560 and suggests that they created the distinctive religious culture of North-East Scotland (later a centre of Catholic recusancy, Episcopalianism, and Jacobitism). The final two chapters investigate what happened to liturgical interpretation in Scottish religious culture after the Protestant Reformation of 1559-60, showing that while it declined in importance in Catholic circles, a Reformed Protestant version of liturgical interpretation was created and flourished which used exactly the same method to produce both an interpretation of the Reformed sacramental rites and an 'anti-commentary' on Catholic liturgy. The book demonstrates an important continuity across the Reformation divide arguing that the 'Scottish Reformation' is best seen as both Catholic and Protestant, with the reformers on both sides having more in common than they or subsequent historians have allowed. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction 1

Shape and Method 2

Names and Dates 5

A Contested Reformation 7

Liturgy and Symbol 10

1 What is Liturgical Interpretation? 13

Definition and Origins 13

Liturgical Commentaries 17

Augustine and the Durandus Method 23

The Durandus Method in Practice 32

Reasons for the Neglect of Liturgical Interpretation 44

Conclusion 50

2 Used Books and Networks: The Aberdeen Liturgists and Catholic Reform in Scotland 51

Liturgical Commentaries, Marginalia, and Reform 52

Bishop Elphinstone and the Aberdeen Liturgists 58

Aberdeen and the Second Scottish Liturgical Movement 63

Other Scottish Networks of Liturgy and Reform 69

Conclusion and the Aberdonian Question 76

3 Learning Liturgical Interpretation 78

Liturgy and Scottish Schools 1488-1560 78

Books Used in Liturgical Education 84

The Formation of the Clergy 92

Universities, Mendicants, and Monasteries 100

Conclusion 106

Appendix: The Dundee Antiphonal Fragment 107

4 Seeing Liturgical Interpretation 109

The Recovery of Symbolism: Reading a Church and the Ars Memorativa 109

The Church and the Temple: Dan Brown and Durandus 115

Sacrament Houses: Heresy and the Lost Ark 125

The Mass and Images of the Passion 136

Conclusion 143

5 Liturgical Interpretation in Two Scottish Reformations 145

Two Reformations Meet in Aberdeen: A Poem 145

Scottish Catholic Reform in Context 1549-59 149

Worship in Protestant Scotland 1560-90 160

Interpreting the Liturgy in Official Scottish Reformed Texts 165

Conclusion 174

6 Controversy and Reformed Liturgical Interpretation 176

The Early Stages of Controversy: Knox and Three Monks 177

Liturgical Interpretation in Controversy 1561-81: Centrality and Decline 184

Reformed Liturgical Interpretation: Ane Breif Gathering and Bruce's Sermons 193

Conclusion 204

Conclusion: Interpretation and Reformation 206

Liturgical Interpretation is Important 206

1560 is Less Important than We Think 208

The Way We Speak about the Scottish Reformation is Wrong 209

Things Remain to be Done 212.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-233) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780198747901

019874790X

OCLC:

932179614

Publisher Number:

99965375063