Riches and Reform: Ecclesiastical Wealth in St Andrews, C.1520-1580

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-34798-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History

The Scottish Reformation is often presumed to have had little economic impact. Traditionally, scholars maintained that Scotland’s late medieval church gradually secularised its estates, and that the religious changes of 1560 barely disrupted an ongoing trend. In Riches and Reform Bess Rhodes challenges this assumption with a study of church finance in Scotland’s religious capital of St Andrews, a place once regarded as the ‘cheif and mother citie of the Realme’. Drawing on largely unpublished charters, rentals, and account books, Riches and Reform argues that in St Andrews the Reformation triggered a rapid, large-scale, and ultimately ruinous redistribution of ecclesiastical wealth. Communal assets built up over generations were suddenly dispersed through a combination of official policies, individual opportunism, and a crisis in local administration, leading the post-Reformation churches and city of St Andrews into ‘poverte and decay’.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rhodes, Bess

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Religiöse Institutionen & Gemeinschaften, Klerus, Mönchstum
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations

Conventions

Acknowledgements

Plan of St Andrews in the Sixteenth Century

Introduction

1Pre-Reformation St Andrews

2Income and Estates

3Administration

4Donations and Expansion

5Feuing

6The Reformation Crisis

7Settlement of the 1560s

8Conflict and Disintegration

9Legacy

Conclusion

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bess Rhodes, Ph.D. (2013), University of St Andrews, is Head of Historical Research for the digital heritage team Smart History and teaches at the University of St Andrews.