Sacred Signs in Reformation Scotland - Interpreting Worship, 1488-1590

Zusatztext This intelligent work restores to modern scholarship the hitherto overlooked genre of liturgical interpretation within medieval and early modern religious culture, amplifies the underestimated Catholic reform movement in Scotland, and offers original contributions to the ongoing discussion about how we should understand and discuss religion in sixteenth-century Scotland... The study does shed new and considerable light on the religious culture of Renaissance Scotland and contributes to and opens up the debate on the nature of religion and religious change in sixteenth-century Scotland. Informationen zum Autor Dr Stephen Mark Holmes is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Klappentext This work is a study of the genre and method of liturgical interpretation in sixteenth-century Scotland, suggesting a new understanding of the Scottish Reformation. Zusammenfassung This work is a study of the genre and method of liturgical interpretation in sixteenth-century Scotland, suggesting a new understanding of the Scottish Reformation.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Mark Holmes, Stephen Mark (Honorary Fellow Holmes, Holmes Stephen Mark
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.2015
• EAN: 9780198747901
• ISBN: 978-0-19-874790-1
• No. of pages: 258
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; History, HISTORY / General, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, History of Religion, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Church history, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599