The National Covenant in Scotland, 1638-1689 (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History, 37)
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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