The National Covenant in Scotland, 1638-1689 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Langley, Chris R.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What did it mean to be a Covenanter?

From its first subscription in 1638, the National Covenant was an aspect of life that communities across Scotland encountered on a daily basis. However, how contemporaries understood its significance remains unclear. This edited collection assesses how people interacted with the National Covenant's infamously ambiguous text, the political and religious changes that it provoked, and the legacy that it left behind. This volume contains eleven chapters divided between three themes that reveal the complex processes behind Covenanting: the act of swearing and subscribing the Covenants; the process of self fashioning and identity formation, and, finally, the various acts of remembering and memorialising the history of the National Covenant. The collection reveals different narratives of what it meant to be a Covenanter rather than one, uniform, and unchanging idea.
The National Covenant forced contortionsin Scottish identities, memories, and attitudes and remained susceptible to changes in the political context. Its impact was dependent upon individual circumstances. The volume's chapters contend that domestic understanding of theNational Covenant was far more nuanced, and the conversations very different, from those occurring in a wider British or Irish context. Those who we now call 'Covenanters' were guided by very different expectations and understandings of what the Covenant represented. The rules that governed this interplay were based on local circumstances and long-standing pressures that could be fuelled by short-term expediency. Above all, the nature of Covenanting was volatile.
Chapters in this volume are based on extensive archival research of local material that provide a view into the complex, and often highly personalised, ways people understood the act or memory of Covenanting. The chapters explore the religious, political, and social responses to the National Covenant through its creation in 1638, the Cromwellian invasion of 1650 and the Restoration of monarchy in 1660.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800100084
• Artikelnr.: 63918300

Autorenporträt

Chris R. Langley

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Making and Remaking the Covenanters
Chris R. Langley Corporate Conversion Ceremonies: The Presentation and Reception of The National Covenant
Nathan C. J. Hood Glasgow and the National Covenant in 1638: Revolution, Royalism, and Civic Reform
Paul Goatman Glasgow and the National Covenant in 1638: Revolution, Royalism, and Civic Reform
Andrew Lind United Opposition? The Aberdeen Doctors and the National Covenant
Russell Newton Allegiance, Confession, and Covenanting Identities, 1638
51
Jamie McDougall Reading John Knox in the Scottish Revolution, 1638
50
Chris R. Langley A Godly Possession? Margaret Mitchelson and the Performance of Covenanted Identity
Louise Yeoman Royalism, Resistance, and the Scottish Clergy, c.1638
41
Andrew Lind The Engagement, the Universities, and the Fracturing of the Covenanter Movement, 1647
51
Salvatore Cipriano Remembering the Revolution: Memory, Identity, and Ideology in Restoration Scotland
Neil McIntyre The Legacy of the Covenants and the Shaping of the Restoration State
Allan Kennedy Who were the 'Later Covenanters'?
Alasdair Raffe Bibliography