Satan and the Scots: The Devil in Post-Reformation Scotland, c.1560-1700

by Michelle D Brock and Michelle D. Brock

Frequent discussions of Satan from the pulpit, in the courtroom, in print, in self-writings, and on the streets rendered the Devil an immediate and assumed presence in early modern Scotland. Exploring what it meant to live in a world in which Satan's presence was believed to be, and indeed, perceived to be, ubiquitous, this book recreates the role of the Devil in the mental worlds of the Scottish people from the Reformation through the early eighteenth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147247001X
• ISBN13: 9781472470010
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"