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Alasdair Raffe, The Culture of Controversy: Religious Arguments in Scotland, 1660-1714. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2012. Pp. 310. ISBN: 9781843837299. $124.00 CAD.
No full textAlasdair Raffe, The Culture of Controversy: Religious Arguments
in Scotland, 1660-1714. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2012. Pp.
310. ISBN: 9781843837299. $124.00 CAD
Stephen G. Myers, <i>Scottish Federalism and Covenantalism in Transition: The Theology of Ebenezer Erskine</i>
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John Bull, Sister Peg, and Anglo-Scottish Relations in the Eighteenth Century
No full textThis chapter analyses John Arbuthnot’s The History of John Bull (1712), an allegorical satire of the War of the Spanish Succession. As well as introducing the figure of John Bull, who became a recognizable symbol of the English people, Arbuthnot featured Bull’s sister Peg, who represents Scotland. With these characters, Arbuthnot provided an insightful interpretation of the passage of the Anglo-Scottish Union. The chapter goes on to discuss the many eighteenth-century imitators of Arbuthnot’s satire. Few featured Sister Peg or commented on Scotland’s place in the Union. The main exceptions were works by Scots, notably Adam Ferguson’s History of the Proceedings in the Case of Margaret, Commonly called Peg (1761), and other literary works and visual satires of the early 1760s, a time of intense Anglo-Scottish rivalries.</p
Scotland
No full textThis chapter examines the transformations in the status and character of Scottish Episcopalianism from 1662 to 1829. Despite being re-established in the Church of Scotland in 1661–2, episcopacy was abolished in 1689. Thereafter Episcopalians were a Nonconformist group, and only the minority of congregations whose clergy were loyal to Queen Anne and her Hanoverian successors enjoyed legal protection. But while the intermittent prosecution of the Jacobite clergy contributed to a steep decline in the number of Scottish Episcopalians, disestablishment allowed the clergy to reassess episcopal authority, and to experiment with liturgical reforms. After transferring their allegiance to the Hanoverians in 1788, the Episcopalians drew closer to the Church of England, formally adopting the Thirty-Nine Articles in 1804. By the end of the period, the Episcopalians saw themselves as an independent, non-established Church, one of the branches of international Anglicanism.</p
Intellectual Change before the Enlightenment: Scotland, the Netherlands and the Reception of Cartesian Thought, 1650–1700
No full text<i>The Blasphemies of Thomas Aikenhead: Boundaries of Belief on the Eve of the Enlightenment.</i> By Michael F. Graham. Pp. xii, 180. ISBN: 9780748634262. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008. £50.00.
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