Sacred signs in reformation Scotland [electronic resource] : interpreting worship, 1488-1590 / Stephen Mark Holmes.

Sacred signs in reformation Scotland [electronic resource] : interpreting worship, 1488-1590 / Stephen Mark Holmes.

First edition.

9780191810787 (electronic book)

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

©2015

English

1 online resource (xv, 240 pages) : illustrations

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198747901 doi

BR385 .H65 2015eb

274.5

This is the first study of how public worship was interpreted in Renaissance Scotland and it offers a radically new way of understanding the Scottish Reformation emphasising continuity. It begins by defining 'liturgical interpretation' (using the methods of mediaeval Biblical exegesis to explain worship) and 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.

This is the first study of how public worship was interpreted in Renaissance Scotland and it offers a radically new way of understanding the Scottish Reformation emphasising continuity. It begins by defining 'liturgical interpretation' (using the methods of mediaeval Biblical exegesis to explain worship) and 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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