Noble Power in Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution

by Keith M. Brown

Book Overview

'Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?' This quotation from Job begins Keith Brown's study of how Scotland's nobility rallied under the pressure of the Reformation and the Covenanting Revolution - a tumultuous period which has generated much historical debate on issues of political authority and power.
In this volume Brown builds on his previous book, Noble Society in Scotland, to argue that in spite of the changes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748664661
• ISBN13: 9780748664665
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher