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Sacred Signs in Reformation Scotland - Interpreting Worship, 1488-1590 (Hardcover)
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Sacred Signs in Reformation Scotland - Interpreting Worship, 1488-1590 (Hardcover)
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Sacred Signs in Reformation Scotland is the first study of how
public worship was interpreted in Renaissance Scotland and offers a
radically new way of understanding the Scottish Reformation. It
first defines the history and method of 'liturgical interpretation'
(using the methods of medieval Biblical exegesis to explain
worship), then shows why it was central to medieval and early
modern Western European religious culture. The rest of the book
uses Scotland as a case study for a multidisciplinary investigation
of the place of liturgical interpretation in this culture. Stephen
Mark Holmes uses the methods of 'book history' to discover the
place of liturgical interpretation in education, sermons and
pastoral practice and also investigates its impact on material
culture, especially church buildings and furnishings. A study of
books and their owners reveals networks of clergy in Scotland
committed to the liturgy and Catholic reform, especially the
'Aberdeen liturgists'. Holmes corrects current scholarship by
showing that their influence lasted beyond 1560 and suggests that
they created the distinctive religious culture of North-East
Scotland (later a centre of Catholic recusancy, Episcopalianism and
Jacobitism). The final two chapters investigate what happened to
liturgical interpretation in Scottish religious culture after the
Protestant Reformation of 1559-60, showing that while it declined
in importance in Catholic circles, a Reformed Protestant version of
liturgical interpretation was created and flourished which used
exactly the same method to produce both an interpretation of the
Reformed sacramental rites and an 'anti-commentary' on Catholic
liturgy. The book demonstrates an important continuity across the
Reformation divide arguing that the 'Scottish Reformation' is best
seen as both Catholic and Protestant, with the reformers on both
sides having more in common than they or subsequent historians have
allowed.
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