Research Catalog

Title

Sacred signs in reformation Scotland. Interpreting worship, 1488-1590. Stephen Mark Holmes.

Author

Holmes, Stephen Mark.

Publication

Corby : Oxford University Press 2015.

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Details

Description

248 pages

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'.

Subject

• 1500-1599
• Reformation > Scotland
• Liturgics > Scotland > History > 16th century
• Liturgics
• Reformation
• Gottesdienst
• Liturgiereform
• Scotland
• Schottland

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-233) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Shape and Method -- Names and Dates -- A Contested Reformation -- Liturgy and Symbol -- What is Liturgical Interpretation? -- Definition and Origins -- Liturgical Commentaries -- Augustine and the Durandus Method -- The Durandus Method in Practice -- Reasons for the Neglect of Liturgical Interpretation -- Conclusion -- Used Books and Networks: The Aberdeen Liturgists and Catholic Reform in Scotland -- Liturgical Commentaries, Marginalia, and Reform -- Bishop Elphinstone and the Aberdeen Liturgists -- Aberdeen and the Second Scottish Liturgical Movement -- Other Scottish Networks of Liturgy and Reform -- Conclusion and the Aberdonian Question -- Learning Liturgical Interpretation -- Liturgy and Scottish Schools 1488-1560 -- Books Used in Liturgical Education -- The Formation of the Clergy -- Universities, Mendicants, and Monasteries -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Dundee Antiphonal Fragment -- Seeing Liturgical Interpretation -- The Recovery of Symbolism: Reading a Church and the Ars Memorativa -- The Church and the Temple: Dan Brown and Durandus -- Sacrament Houses: Heresy and the Lost Ark -- The Mass and Images of the Passion -- Conclusion -- Liturgical Interpretation in Two Scottish Reformations -- Two Reformations Meet in Aberdeen: A Poem -- Scottish Catholic Reform in Context 1549-59 -- Worship in Protestant Scotland 1560-90 -- Interpreting the Liturgy in Official Scottish Reformed Texts -- Conclusion -- Controversy and Reformed Liturgical Interpretation -- The Early Stages of Controversy: Knox and Three Monks -- Liturgical Interpretation in Controversy 1561-81: Centrality and Decline -- Reformed Liturgical Interpretation: Ane Breif Gathering and Bruce's Sermons -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: Interpretation and Reformation -- Liturgical Interpretation is Important -- 1560 is Less Important than We Think -- The Way We Speak about the Scottish Reformation is Wrong -- Things Remain to be Done.

ISBN

• 9780198747901
• 019874790X

OCLC

• ocn908334577
• 908334577
• SCSB-1836081

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library