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Civic reformation and religious change in sixteenth-century Scottish towns / Timothy Slonosky.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Slonosky, Timothy, 1980- author.
- Series:
- Scottish religious cultures.
- Scottish religious cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reformation--Scotland.
- Reformation.
- Church and state--Scotland--History--16th century.
- Church and state.
- Scotland--History--1057-1603.
- Scotland.
- Scotland--Religion--16th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 279 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- This volume 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Usage and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part One The Burghs
- 1 The Burghs: Setting and Economy
- 2 Governance in the Burghs
- 3 The Civic Church
- 4 The Urban Clergy
- Part Two Discussion and Disaster
- 5 The Spread of New Ideas: 1520-1547
- 6 Plague and War: 1543-1550
- 7 Recovery and Reaction: 1550-1558
- Part Three Reformation from Within and Without
- 8 Reformation: 1558-1560
- 9 Creating Protestant Towns: 1560-1565
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 19, 2026).
- ISBN:
- 1-3995-1025-8
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