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Court, kirk, and community : Scotland, 1470-1625

Jenny Wormald
Describing the last period of Scotland's existence as an independent kingdom, the major focus of this volume is the events and consequences of the Reformation, that crucial episode which ushered in tremendous spiritual and secular change. Professor Wormald shows how Scotland's rulers, all formidably powerful (with the exception of Mary) and highly cultured, governed a society whose economic and social bonds were still in many ways 'medieval'
Print Book, English, 1991
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1991
History
viii, 216 pages ; 20 cm
9780748602766, 0748602763
26132044
I. Renaissance Scotland : the reigns of James III, IV, and V. Politics and government
The local community
Town and country
Poets, scholars, and gentlemen
II. The Reformation. The pre-Reformation church
The growth of Protestantism
The Reformation
The establishment of the Reformed Church
III. Renaissance Scotland : the reigns of Mary and James VI. The king's government
The local community disturbed
Cultural achievements
Epilogue : Scotland after 1603
Reprint. Originally published: [London?] : Edward Arnold, 1981