Riches and reform : ecclesiastical wealth in St Andrews c.1520-1580 / by Bess Rhodes.
Riches and reform :
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9789004347991 (electronic book)
9789004347984 (print)
9789004347984 (print)
Yer Numarası
DK/5914
Yazar
Yayın Bilgisi
Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2020.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource.
Dizi
St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
Bibliyografi, vb. Notu
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-205) and index.
İçindekiler Notu
Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Abbreviations -- Conventions -- Acknowledgements -- Plan of St Andrews in the Sixteenth Century -- Introduction -- Pre-Reformation St Andrews -- Income and Estates -- Administration -- Donations and Expansion -- Feuing -- The Reformation Crisis -- Settlement of the 1560s -- Conflict and Disintegration -- Legacy -- Conclusion -- Back Matter -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.
Özet, vb.
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 Drawing on largely unpublished charters, rentals, and account books, Riches and Reform argues that in St Andrews the Reformation triggered a rapid, large-scale, and ultimately ruinous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’.
Konu
Church finance __ Scotland __ St. Andrews __ History __ 16th century.
St. Andrews (Scotland) __ Church history __ 16th century.
St. Andrews (Scotland) __ Church history __ 16th century.
