This is the first study of the interaction between warfare and
national religious practice during the British Civil Wars. Using
hundreds of neglected local documents, this work explores the
manner in which civil conflict, invasion and military occupation
affected religious practice. As Churches elsewhere in Britain and
Ireland were dismantled and the country was invaded by a foreign
English army, mid-seventeenth-century Scotland provides an
important, yet neglected, point of entry in exploring the
intersection between early modern warfare and religious practice.
The book establishes a fresh way of looking at the conflicts of the
mid-seventeenth century. No other study has explored how soldiers
were quartered or marched in close proximity to parish worship, how
their presence affected worship patterns and how the very idea of
conflict in the mid-seventeenth century impacted upon the
day-to-day lives of worshippers. Using the signing of the National
Covenant in 1638 as its starting point, this perspective emphasises
flexibility in religious practice and the dialogue between local
communities, religious leaders and troops as a critical element in
the experience of war.
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