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Book Religious Life in Seventeenth Century Scotland

Download or read book Religious Life in Seventeenth Century Scotland written by G. D. Henderson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises several studies, some formerly published as articles, which touch upon the most important features of Scotland's religious life in the seventeenth century.

Book Religious Life in 17th century Scotland

Download or read book Religious Life in 17th century Scotland written by George David Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Religious Life in 17th Century Scotland  by G  D  Henderson

Download or read book Religious Life in 17th Century Scotland by G D Henderson written by George David Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Everyday Life in Scotland  1600 to 1800

Download or read book History of Everyday Life in Scotland 1600 to 1800 written by Elizabeth A Foyster and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ordinary daily routines, behaviours, experiences and beliefs of the Scottish people during a period of immense political, social and economic change. It underlines the importance of the church in post-Reformation Scottish society, but also highlights aspects of everyday life that remained the same, or similar, notwithstanding the efforts of the kirk, employers and the state to alter behaviours and attitudes.Drawing upon and interrogating a range of primary sources, the authors create a richly coloured, highly-nuanced picture of the lives of ordinary Scots from birth through marriage to death. Analytical in approach, the coverage of topics is wide, ranging from the ways people made a living, through their non-work activities including reading, playing and relationships, to the ways they experienced illness and approached death.This volume:*Provides a rich and finely nuanced social history of the period 1600-1800 *Gets behind the politics of Union and Jacobitism, and the experience of agricultural and industrial 'revolution'*Presents the scholarly expertise of its contributing authors in a accessible way*Includes a guide to further reading indicating sources for further study

Book The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland

Download or read book The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland written by Michelle D. Brock and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nuanced approach to the role played by clerics at a turbulent time for religious affairs.

Book Bitter Magic  Inspired by the True Story of a Confessed Witch

Download or read book Bitter Magic Inspired by the True Story of a Confessed Witch written by Nancy Hayes Kilgore and published by Milford House Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chance encounter leads teenaged Margaret into the circle of Isobel Gowdie, a "cunning woman" who practices magic and travels in the fairy world. But Scotland is aflame with wars over religion and "correct" belief-English against Scots, Catholics against Protestants-and in the Scottish Highlands, the witch craze is at its height. When Margaret starts to meet with Isobel to learn magic, Isobel is accused of witchcraft, and Margaret becomes a suspect, too. Can Margaret's tutor, Katharine, a Christian mystic, affect the outcome? Bitter Magic is inspired by the true story of the witchcraft trial of Isobel Gowdie in 1662.

Book Narratives of the Religious Self in Early Modern Scotland

Download or read book Narratives of the Religious Self in Early Modern Scotland written by David George Mullan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a rich, yet untapped, source of Scottish autobiographical writing, this book provides a fascinating insight into the nature and extent of early-modern religious narratives. Over 80 such personal documents, including diaries and autobiographies, manuscript and published, clerical and lay, feminine and masculine, are examined and placed both within the context of seventeenth-century Scotland, and also early-modern narratives produced elsewhere. In addition to the focus on narrative, the study also revolves around the notion of conversion, which, while a concept known in many times and places, is not universal in its meaning, but must be understood within the peculiarities of a specific context and the needs of writers located in a specific tradition, here, Puritanism and evangelical Presbyterianism. These conversions and the narratives which provide a means of articulation draw deeply from the Bible, including the Psalms and the Song of Solomon. The context must also include an appreciation of the political history, especially during the religious persecutions under Charles II and James VII, and later the changing and unstable conditions experienced after the arrival of William and Mary on her father's throne. Another crucial context in shaping these narratives was the form of religious discourse manifested in sermons and other works of divinity and the work seeks to investigate relations between ministers and their listeners. Through careful analysis of these narratives, viewing them both as individual documents and as part of a wider genre, a fuller picture of seventeenth-century life can be drawn, especially in the context of the family and personal development. Thus the book may be of interest to students in a variety of areas of study, including literary, historical, and theological contexts. It provides for a greater understanding of the motivations behind such personal expressions of early-modern religious faith, whose echoes can still be heard today.

Book The Scot of the Eighteenth Century

Download or read book The Scot of the Eighteenth Century written by Ian Maclaren and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scotland s Long Reformation

Download or read book Scotland s Long Reformation written by John McCallum and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring processes of religious change in early-modern Scotland, this collection of essays takes a long-term perspective to consider developments in belief, identity, church structures and the social context of religion from the late-fifteenth century through to the mid-seventeenth century. The volume examines the ways in which tensions and conflicts with origins in the mid-sixteenth century continued to impact upon Scotland in the often violent seventeenth century, while also tracing deep continuities in Scotland's religious, cultural and intellectual life. The essays, the fruits of new research in the field, are united by a concern to appreciate fully the ambiguity of religious identity in post-Reformation Scotland, and to move beyond simplistic notions of a straightforward and unidirectional transition from Catholicism to Protestantism.

Book The Dark Hours

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  • Author : Christian Hesketh
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  • Release : 1954
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  • Pages : 21 pages

Download or read book The Dark Hours written by Christian Hesketh and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Religion and National Identity

Download or read book Religion and National Identity written by Alistair Mutch and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presbyterianism has shaped Scotland and its impact on the world. Behind its beliefs lie some distinctive practices of governance which endure even when belief fades. These practices place a particular emphasis on the detailed recording of decisions and what we can term a 'systemic' form of accountability. This book examines the emergence and consolidation of such practices in the 18th century Church of Scotland. Using extensive archival research and detailed local case studies, it contrasts them to what is termed a 'personal' form of accountability in England in the same period. The wider impact of the systemic approach to governance and accountability, especially in the United States of America, is explored, as is the enduring impact on Scottish identity. This book offers a fresh perspective on the Presbyterian legacy in contemporary Scottish historiography, at the same time as informing current debates on national identity. It has a novel focus on religion as social practice, as opposed to belief or organization. It has a strong focus on Scotland, but in the context of Britain. 0It offers extensive archival work in the Church of Scotland records, with an emphasis on form as well as content. It provides a different focus on the Church of Scotland in the 18th century. It offers a detailed focus on local practice in the context of national debates.

Book Scotland s Long Reformation

Download or read book Scotland s Long Reformation written by John McCallum and published by Lund Humphries Publishers. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the processes of religious change in early-modern Scotland, this collection of essays goes beyond the usual focus on the decades either side of the Reformation Parliament of 1560. Instead it takes a longer-term perspective to consider developments in belief, identity, church structures and the social context of religion from the late-fifteenth century through to the mid-seventeenth century. The volume thus examines the ways in which tensions and conflicts that had their origins in the mid-sixteenth century continued to impact upon Scotland in the often violent seventeenth century.

Book The Advancement of Learning in Stuart Scotland  1679 89

Download or read book The Advancement of Learning in Stuart Scotland 1679 89 written by HUGH. OUSTON and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Scottish thinkers and writers in their political and cultural context. The "advancement of learning" was the term used by late seventeenth-century Scots for intellectual enquiry of all kinds. Encouraged by Stuart patronage, and echoing a Royalist ideology of continuity and order following the chaos of the Civil War, the "Virtuosi", Scottish writers and thinkers, sought to define Scotland's identity. They undertook structured, empirical enquiry into Scottish natural history and geography, human history and antiquities, law and society, while the legal and medical professions developed their status and purpose through institutions such as the Royal College of Physicians and the Advocates' Library. They both complemented and eclipsed the changing intellectual life of the Church and Universities. This book considers the work of leading authors, such as Sir George Mackenzie, Sir Robert Sibbald and Lord Stair, alongside the many other voices engaged in learned research and debate, examining their shared or contrasting philosophy and methods. It shows how a distinctively Scottish take on the "Scientific Revolution" was enhanced by close contacts with the Royal Society and English thinkers, and a conscious membership of the European Republic of Letters.

Book The Scot of the Eighteenth Century

Download or read book The Scot of the Eighteenth Century written by Ian Maclaren and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Some Facts of Religion and of Life

Download or read book Some Facts of Religion and of Life written by John Tulloch and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Tulloch (1823 -1886) was a Scottish theologian. Tulloch was appointed as one of Her Majesty's Chaplains for Scotland and preached a number of sermons before Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland between 1866 and 1876. He quickly won the attachment and admiration of his students. In 1862 he was appointed a clerk of the General Assembly, and from then on he took a leading part in the councils of the Church of Scotland. Tulloch was also deeply interested in the reorganization of education in Scotland, both in school and university, and acted as one of the temporary board which settled the primary school system under the Education Act of 1872. Tulloch's best-known works are collections of biographical sketches of the leaders of great movements in church history, such as the Reformation and Puritanism. His most important book, Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy (1872), is one in which the Cambridge Platonists and other leaders of dispassionate thought in the 17th century are similarly treated. He delivered the second series of the Croall lectures, on the Doctrine of Sin, which were afterwards published. He also published a small work, The Christ of the Gospels and the Christ of History, in which the views of Ernest Renan on the gospel history were dealt with; a monograph on Blaise Pascal for Blackwood's Foreign Classics series; and a little work, Beginning Life, addressed to young men, written at an earlier period.

Book Scholarly Book Collecting in Restoration Scotland

Download or read book Scholarly Book Collecting in Restoration Scotland written by Murray C.T. Simpson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scholarly interests of Scots in the Restoration period are analysed by Murray Simpson through an in-depth study of the library of the Reverend James Nairn (1629–1678), the biggest collection formed in this period for which we have detailed records.