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The Culture of Protestantism in Early Modern Scotland (Paperback)
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The Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century brought a
radical shift from a profoundly sensual and ceremonial experience
of religion to the dominance of the word through Book and sermon.
In Scotland, the revolution assumed proportions unequalled by any
other national Calvinist Reformation, with Christmas and Easter
formally abolished, sabbaths turned to fasting days, and mandatory
attendance of weekday as well as Sunday sermons strictly enforced
as part of an invasive disciplinary regimen. How was such a drastic
shift accomplished and what effect did it have on the masses of
people in the pew, or in the alehouse? In addressing this question
Todd uses the abundance of source material from the operations of
'kirk sessions', the most local of the Calvinist church courts,
which detail varied aspects of daily life: baptism, marriage and
burial, poor relief and education, fasts and feasts, sexual offence
and doctrinal error.She shows how the kirk sessions balanced the
exercise of discipline with social service to produce a
distinctively Scottish Reformed culture in which traditional ritual
and drama, propitiatory devices and even imagery were not
discarded, but reconstructed in a protestant guise. Holy space and
holy time, however protestantised, continued to provide the anxious
with comfort, and the ordinary lay person with an affective
experience of the sacred. In this ground-breaking study Margo Todd
has harnessed this vivid and rarely-used documentation to produce
an extraordinary work of historical anthropology, and elucidate the
spirituality of a people long hidden from history. Margo Todd is
associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University and the
author of 'Christian Humanism and the Puritan Social Order'.
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