Enforcing uniformity kirk sessions and Catholics in early modern Scotland, 1560-1650
In the decades following the Scottish Reformation, Scottish parliaments passed a series of penal laws against Catholics and expressions of Catholic religious practice. In an act of 1594 the death penalty was prescribed on the first offence for wilfully hearing Mass; but no Scot was ever executed for...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
| Verificar disponibilidad: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Publicado: |
[2018]
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| En: |
The Innes review
Año: 2018, Volumen: 69, Número: 2, Páginas: 111-130 |
| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | KAG Reforma KBF Islas Británicas KDB Iglesia católica KDD Iglesia evangélica RB Ministerio eclesiástico |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
parish church courts
B Kirk sessions B public penance B Protestant confession of faith B Conversion B Scottish Reformation |
| Acceso en línea: |
Volltext (Publisher) Volltext (doi) |
| Sumario: | In the decades following the Scottish Reformation, Scottish parliaments passed a series of penal laws against Catholics and expressions of Catholic religious practice. In an act of 1594 the death penalty was prescribed on the first offence for wilfully hearing Mass; but no Scot was ever executed for hearing Mass. The same law of 1594 encouraged local presbyteries to convert any suspected Catholic under their jurisdiction. As historians of the Scottish Reformation begin to appreciate the crucial role that kirk sessions played in suppressing Scottish Catholicism, this article adds to recent studies which seek to offer a corrective to much previous scholarship on the persecution of Scottish Catholics - which tended to focus almost exclusively on civil enforcement - and explores the impact of parish church courts on Scottish Catholicism, highlighting the effectiveness of public penance, shaming, and psychological pressure as the most useful tools for enforcing uniformity. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5219 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: The Innes review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3366/inr.2018.0171 |
