The National Covenant in Scotland, 1638-1689 (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History, 37) 9781783275304, 9781787448308, 1783275308
What did it mean to be a Covenanter? From its first subscription in 1638, the National Covenant was an aspect of life t
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Table of contents :
Front Cover
Table of Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction Making and Remaking the Covenanters
Swearing and Subscribing
1 Corporate Conversion Ceremonies: The Presentation and Reception of the National Covenant
2 Glasgow and the National Covenant in 1638: Revolution, Royalism and Civic Reform
3 United Opposition? The Aberdeen Doctors and the National Covenant
4 Allegiance, Confession and Covenanting Identities, 1638-51
Identity and Self Fashioning
5 Reading John Knox in the Scottish Revolution, 1638-50
6 A Godly Possession? Margaret Mitchelson and the Performance of Covenanted Identity
7 Royalism, Resistance and the Scottish Clergy, c.1638-41
8 The Engagement, the Universities and the Fracturing of the Covenanter Movement, 1647-51
Remembering
9 Remembering the Revolution: Memory, Identity and Ideology in Restoration Scotland
10 The Legacy of the Covenants and the Shaping of the Restoration State
11 Who were the ‘Later Covenanters’?
Bibliography
Index
Front Cover
Table of Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction Making and Remaking the Covenanters
Swearing and Subscribing
1 Corporate Conversion Ceremonies: The Presentation and Reception of the National Covenant
2 Glasgow and the National Covenant in 1638: Revolution, Royalism and Civic Reform
3 United Opposition? The Aberdeen Doctors and the National Covenant
4 Allegiance, Confession and Covenanting Identities, 1638-51
Identity and Self Fashioning
5 Reading John Knox in the Scottish Revolution, 1638-50
6 A Godly Possession? Margaret Mitchelson and the Performance of Covenanted Identity
7 Royalism, Resistance and the Scottish Clergy, c.1638-41
8 The Engagement, the Universities and the Fracturing of the Covenanter Movement, 1647-51
Remembering
9 Remembering the Revolution: Memory, Identity and Ideology in Restoration Scotland
10 The Legacy of the Covenants and the Shaping of the Restoration State
11 Who were the ‘Later Covenanters’?
Bibliography
Index
