Riches and Reform: Ecclesiastical Wealth in St Andrews, C.1520-1580

by Bess Rhodes

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004347984
• ISBN13: 9789004347984
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"