Humanism and Calvinism: Andrew Melville and the Universities of Scotland, 1560-1625

by Steven J. Reid

Across early-modern Europe the confessional struggles of the Reformation touched virtually every aspect of civic life; and nowhere was this more apparent than in the universities, the seedbed of political and ecclesiastical society. Focussing on events in Scotland, this book reveals how established universities found themselves at the centre of a struggle by competing forces trying to promote their own political, religious or educational beliefs,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032921420
• ISBN13: 9781032921426
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 350 Pages