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The National Covenant in Scotland, 1638-1689 (Hardcover)
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The National Covenant in Scotland, 1638-1689 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History
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What did it mean to be a Covenanter? From its first subscription in
1638, the National Covenant was an aspect of life that communities
across Scotland encountered on a daily basis. However, how
contemporaries understood its significance remains unclear. This
edited collection assesses how people interacted with the National
Covenant's infamously ambiguous text, the political and religious
changes that it provoked, and the legacy that it left behind. This
volume contains eleven chapters divided between three themes that
reveal the complex processes behind Covenanting: the act of
swearing and subscribing the Covenants; the process of self
fashioning and identity formation, and, finally, the various acts
of remembering and memorialising the history of the National
Covenant. The collection reveals different narratives of what it
meant to be a Covenanter rather than one, uniform, and unchanging
idea. The National Covenant forced contortions in Scottish
identities, memories, and attitudes and remained susceptible to
changes in the political context. Its impact was dependent upon
individual circumstances. The volume's chapters contend that
domestic understanding of the National Covenant was far more
nuanced, and the conversations very different, from those occurring
in a wider British or Irish context. Those who we now call
'Covenanters' were guided by very different expectations and
understandings of what the Covenant represented. The rules that
governed this interplay were based on local circumstances and
long-standing pressures that could be fuelled by short-term
expediency. Above all, the nature of Covenanting was volatile.
Chapters in this volume are based on extensive archival research of
local material that provide a view into the complex, and often
highly personalised, ways people understood the act or memory of
Covenanting. The chapters explore the religious, political, and
social responses to the National Covenant through its creation in
1638, the Cromwellian invasion of 1650 and the Restoration of
monarchy in 1660.
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