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Nobility --- History --- Scotland --- History. --- Social conditions.
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How did Scots live and change in the dying days of an independent kingdom?This essential history focuses on society and religious life in Reformation Scotland from 1470 to 1625. Now re-issued in the popular New History of Scotland series, with a contextual foreword by Keith Brown as tribute to the career of Jenny Wormald, who did so much to transform our understanding of early modern Scotland.The book traces the turbulent and often calamitous evolution of Scotland from medieval and feudal to the modern state. Whilst undergoing the transformation in religious life from Catholic to Protestant, Scotland also had to contend with a changing monarchy, war and government.This introductory text covers all the key events of the period including Scotland's alliances with France, treaties with the English and the Union of the Crowns. At the heart of the book is a detailed examination of the spiritual origins and secular effects of the Reformation as it transformed root and branch the older medieval structure of Scotland.
Reformation. --- Protestant Reformation --- Reformation --- Church history --- Counter-Reformation --- Protestantism --- History --- Scotland --- Caledonia --- Scotia --- Schotland --- Sŭkʻotʻŭllandŭ --- Ecosse --- Škotska --- Great Britain --- Church history.
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This is the third volume in The History of the Scottish Parliament. In volumes 1 and 2 the contributors addressed discrete episodes in political history from the early thirteenth century through to 1707, demonstrating the richness of the sources for such historical writing and the importance of parliament to that history. In Volume 3 the contributors have built on that foundation and taken advantage of the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to discuss a comprehensive range of key themes in the development of parliament.The editors, Keith M. Brown and Alan R. MacDonald, have assembled a tea
Scotland --- Politics and government. --- HISTORY / Europe / General. --- Scotland. --- History. --- Pà̀rlamaid na h-Alba --- Scots Commission in London --- Scottish Parliament
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This book brings unusually brings together work on 15th century and the 16th century Scottish history, asking questions such as: How far can medieval themes such as 'lordship' function in the late 16th-century world of Reformation and state formation? How.
Nobility --- Feudalism --- HISTORY --- Feudalism. --- Kings and rulers. --- Nobility. --- Social conditions. --- History --- Essays. --- 1057-1699. --- Scotland --- Scotland. --- Social conditions
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