Although much has been published on the social history of death, this is the first book to give
a comprehensive account of attitudes towards the dead--above all the'placing'of the dead, in …

The godly magistrate was an essential figure in the progress of the Protestant Reformation
throughout Europe, and Scotland with its very powerful nobility was no exception. Prophetic …

The Parliament should represent rhe haill body of the common-weal... and it were ane gryt
absurdiry that every mean craftsman within boroughs in a manner should have avice in …

That regional identities are constructed is now something of a truism in academic research.
More recently regions have been conceptualized in the framework of Frontier and Border …

This thesis is the first attempt to provide an assessment of Scottish-Jacobean foreign
relations within a European context in the years before 1603. Moreover, it represents the …

This collection of essays on the alternative establishments which both Presbyterians and
Catholics attempted to create in Britain and Ireland offers a dynamic new perspective on the …

Structurally the Catholic Church in Scotland had been more or less undone by the 1570s,
although during the 1580s and into the 1590s the possibility of a violent Catholic Counter …

By drawing upon recent scholarship, original manuscript materials, and previously
unpublished sources, this new biography presents an analytical narrative of King James VI …

Recent research has shown that urban magistrates across early modern Europe generally
tackled the problem of religious pluralism through de facto religious tolerance. Archibald …

University of Groningen Introduction Esser, Raingard; Ellis, Steven G. Page 1 University of
Groningen Introduction Esser, Raingard; Ellis, Steven G. Published in: Frontier and Border …