Poor Relief and the Church in Scotland, 1560-1650
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Early Modern History
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Poor Relief
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Scottish Reformation
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- ISBN 9781474427272
- Weight: 554g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 10 Sep 2018
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This book sets out the importance of charity in Scottish Reformation studies. Based on extensive archival research involving more than thirty parishes, it sheds new light on the practice of poor relief in the century following the Reformation.
John McCallum challenges the assumption that charitable activity was weak and informal in Scotland by uncovering the surviving records of welfare work carried out by the church. And he skilfully demonstrates that kirk sessions were key welfare providers in early modern Scotland and provided effective relief to a range of people who struggled in poverty. In addition to the analysis of specific parish activities, readers gain a rare insight into the lives of the poor Scots who looked to the church for assistance in the early modern era.
John McCallum is a senior lecturer in History at Nottingham Trent University, and a specialist in the religious and social history of early modern Scotland. He is the author of Reforming the Scottish Parish (2010), editor of Scotland’s Long Reformation (2016), and has published various other pieces on aspects of Scottish Reformation history.
