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Sacred signs in Reformation Scotland : interpreting worship, 1488-1590 /
- Title
- Sacred signs in Reformation Scotland : interpreting worship, 1488-1590 / Stephen Mark Holmes.
- Author
- Holmes, Stephen Mark.
- Publication
- Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2015.
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- Description
- xv, 240 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Sacred signs in reformation Scotland' is the first study of how public worship was interpreted in Renaissance Scotland and offers a radically new way of understanding the Scottish Reformation. It first defines the history and method of 'liturgical interpretation' (using the methods of medieval Biblical exegesis to explain worship), then shows why it was central to medieval and early modern Western European religious culture. The rest of the book uses Scotland as a case study for a multidisciplinary investigation of the place of liturgical interpretation in this culture. Stephen Mark Holmes uses the methods of 'book history' to discover the place of liturgical interpretation in education, sermons and pastoral practice and also investigates its impact on material culture, especially church buildings and furnishings. A study of books and their owners reveals networks of clergy in Scotland committed to the liturgy and Catholic reform, especially the 'Aberdeen liturgists'.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-233) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780198747901
- 019874790X
- LCCN
- 2015906045
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library