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Scotland's Turmoil: 1500-1707
€ 18.75
ISBN: 9781904737742
In the centuries which are the
focus of this book, Scotland was going though a period of profound and often
violent change.
With the Americas having been recently
discovered in 1492, awareness of other continents' cultures and natural wonders
was fast increasing- though both cultures and wonders were often mistreated by
colonialists and traders.
At the same time, the recently invented printing press
allowed ideas and information to spread more quickly over long distances,
thereby adding to the atmosphere of national upheaval and disorder.
In the sphere of politics, influential and
seditious texts challenged the most powerful institutions which had ruled
Europe during the preceding centuries - not least among them, the Catholic
Church - and the feudal form of social control, under which a small class of
hereditary aristocrats had ruled over the poor and powerless masses, was being
called into question.
Politics and religion,
especially forms of worship, were closely intertwined in a way that is hard to
fully grasp today and in each was to be found the cause for civil strife and
appalling violence.
As in other countries, Scotland became
gripped by the Protestant Reformation and saw new social groups with new
worldviews rise into the ranks of the powerful. This involved not just a clash
of ideas and of values, but also frequent episodes of prolonged war and often
irreconcilable division.
352 pages.
In Stock.
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Date of Publication: 16/09/2025
Paperback
