Death, life, and religious change in Scottish towns, c. 1350-1560 / Mairi Cowan.

Death, life, and religious change in Scottish towns, c. 1350-1560 / Mairi Cowan.

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

xi, 252 p. ; 22 cm

This title examines lay religious culture in Scottish towns between the Black Death and the Protestant Reformation: what the living did to influence the dead and vice versa; considers both continuities and changes, highlighting the Catholic Reform movement that reached Scottish towns before the Protestant Reformation took hold.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-245) and index.

Part I: Lamenting the dead. 1. How the living influenced the dead
2. How the dead influenced the living
Part II: Summoning the living. 3. Communities of religion
4. The individual in the community
Part III. Subduing thunderbolts. 5. Religious dissent
6. Catholic reform.

Great Britain -- England.

BR784 .C69 2012