The Perth kirk session books, 1577-1590 / edited by Margo Todd.
Material type: TextSeries: Scottish History Society (Series) ; 6th ser., v. 2.Publication details: Woodbridge : Boydell Press, 2012.Description: ix, 574 p. : map ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780906245316 (hbk.)
- 0906245311 (hbk.)
- Church records and registers -- Scotland -- Perth -- History -- 16th century
- Calvinism -- Scotland -- Perth -- Sources
- Reformation -- Scotland -- Perth -- Sources
- Perth (Scotland) -- Church history -- 16th century -- Sources
- Perth (Scotland) -- Social life and customs -- 16th century -- Sources
- Perth (Scotland) -- Social conditions -- 16th century -- Sources
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book: Standard | Hewitson Library, Presbyterian Research Centre | Main | BR788.P4 P47 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 14-746 |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The Perth Kirk Session Books: 1577-1590 -- Appendix I: Perth Elders, 1576-1590 -- Appendix II: Hospital Masters, 1577-1590 -- Appendix III: Session Disciplinary Entries in the Parish Register, 1568.
"The Calvinist Reformation in Scottish towns was a radically transformative movement. It incorporated into urban ecclesiastical governance a group of laymen - the elders of the kirk session - drawn heavily from the crafts guilds as well as wealthy merchants. These men met at least weekly with the minister and comprised a parochial church court that exercised an unprecedented discipline of the lives of the ordinary citizenry. They pried into sexual behaviour, administered the hospital and other poor relief, ordered fostering of orphans, oversaw the grammar school, enforced sabbath observance, investigated charges of witchcraft, arbitrated quarrels and punished people who railed at their neighbours. In times of crisis like the great plague of 1584-85, they rationed food sent from other towns and raised an already high bar on moral discipline to avert further divine wrath. The minute books of Perth's session, established in the 1560s and surviving most fully from 1577, open a window on this religious discipline, the men who administered it, and the lay people who both resisted and facilitated it, negotiating its terms to meet their own agendas. They are presented here with full introduction and explanatory notes."--Publisher's website.
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