Reformation entry into Gaelic Scotland, 1567‒1630

Hazlett, W. I. P. (2021) Reformation entry into Gaelic Scotland, 1567‒1630. In: Hazlett, W. I. P. (ed.) A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland, c.1525–1638: Frameworks of Change and Development. Series: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition (100). Brill: Leiden ; Boston, pp. 542-577. ISBN 9789004329720 (doi: 10.1163/9789004335950_023)

Abstract

This study traces mainly the transmission of Protestant Reformation ideas to Gaelic-speaking Scotland as a ripple effect of the European Reformation. A topic often eclipsed in general historiography, the chapter reintroduces it on a platform displaying salient features of the changing Scottish religious landscape. The focus is on, first: Gaelic promoters from the nobility and the Church in the 1560s, like Archibald Campbell (5th earl of Argyll) and John Carswell, both close to the Stewart monarchy interested in all-Scotland integration, and second: pioneering Gaelic translations of liturgical and catechetical texts embodying genres, ideas, and practices of diverse origins in central Europe then circulating in Lowland Scotland. Some attention also will be given to Gaelic writings of post-Tridentine Catholic reiteration and mobilization presumably availed of in the controversial, 17th-century, Ulster-based mission to parts of Gaelic Scotland. Such instructional aids, designed to resist, or inoculate against, Protestant Reformation advance, emanated from Irish Catholic exiles in the Spanish Netherlands.

• Item Type: Book Sections
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Hazlett, Professor William
• Authors: Hazlett, W. I. P.
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > Theology and Religious Studies
• Publisher: Brill
• ISBN: 9789004329720
• Published Online: 13 December 2021
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• First Published: First published in A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland, c.1525–1638: Frameworks of Change and Development: 542-577
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