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Author_Steven J. Reid
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Circuitous Process
college
De Emendatione Temporum
Earl Marischal
early modern universities
ecclesiastical politics Scotland
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Genevan Academy
george
George Gledstanes
Glasgow University
gledstanes
Hilde De Ridder Symoens
John Winram
King's College
King’s College
kirk
Kirk Session
manuscript source analysis
marischal
Marischal College
National Library
NLS
post-Reformation Scottish higher education
Protestant educational reform
Renaissance humanism influence
Sacrobosco's De Sphaera
sacroboscos
Sacrobosco’s De Sphaera
Scottish Reformation history
Scottish Universities
session
Shr
sphaera
St Andrews Presbytery
St Leonards
St Mary's College
St Mary’s College
Town Foundation
Vice Versa
welwood
william
William Elphinstone
William King
William Welwood
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781409400059
- Weight: 771g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jan 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Across early-modern Europe the confessional struggles of the Reformation touched virtually every aspect of civic life; and nowhere was this more apparent than in the universities, the seedbed of political and ecclesiastical society. Focussing on events in Scotland, this book reveals how established universities found themselves at the centre of a struggle by competing forces trying to promote their own political, religious or educational beliefs, and under competition from new institutions. It surveys the transformation of Scotland's medieval and Catholic university system into a greatly-expanded Protestant one in the decades following the Scottish Reformation of 1560. Simultaneously the study assesses the contribution of the continentally-educated religious reformer Andrew Melville to this process in the context of broader European social and cultural developments - including growing lay interest in education (as a result of renaissance humanism), and the involvement of royal and civic government as well as the new Protestant Kirk in university expansion and reform. Through systematic use of largely neglected manuscript sources, the book offers fresh perspectives on both Andrew Melville and the development of Scottish higher education post-1560. As well as providing a detailed picture of events in Scotland, it contributes to our growing understanding of the role played by higher education in shaping society across Europe.
Steven J. Reid, Department of History, University of Glasgow, UK
