Civic Reformation and Religious Change in Sixteenth-Century Scottish Towns
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Civic Religion
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Reformation
Reformed Protestantism
Religious Violence
Scottish Reformation
sixteenth-century Scotland
Urban History
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- ISBN 9781399510233
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jan 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Civic Reformation and Religious Change in Sixteenth-Century Scottish Towns demonstrates the crucial role of Scotland's townspeople in the dramatic Protestant Reformation of 1560. It shows that Scottish Protestants were much more successful than their counterparts in France and the Netherlands at introducing religious change because they had the acquiescence of urban populations. As town councils controlled critical aspects of civic religion, their explicit cooperation was vital to ensuring that the reforms introduced at the national level by the military and political victory of the Protestants were actually implemented.
Focusing on the towns of Dundee, Stirling and Haddington, this book argues that the councillors and inhabitants gave this support because successive crises of plague, war and economic collapse shook their faith in the existing Catholic order and left them fearful of further conflict. As a result, the Protestants faced little popular opposition, and Scotland avoided the popular religious violence and division which occurred elsewhere in Europe.
Timothy Slonosky is a Professor in the Humanities Department of Dawson College. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, under the supervision of Margo Todd. He is the author of “Burgh Government and Reformation: Stirling c.1530-65” in Scotland’s Long Reformation, edited by John McCallum (Brill, 2016).
