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

by Bess Rhodes

  • Hardback
  • 222 pages
  • Publisher: Brill
  • 16.1 x 23.7 x 1.8 cm

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For history enthusiasts and church researchers.

Explains the economic impact of the Reformation.

Helps you grasp the past to better value the church.

Discover how the Reformation triggered a massive shift in church finances and the legacy of St Andrews.

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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 citie of the Realme'. Drawing on largely unpublished charters, rentals, and account books, Riches and Reform argues that in St Andrews the Reformation triggered a rapid, large-scale, and ultimately ruinous redistribution of ecclesiastical wealth. Communal assets built up over generations were suddenly dispersed through a combination of official policies, individual opportunism, and a crisis in local administration, leading the post-Reformation churches and city of St Andrews into 'poverte and decay'.

  • Title

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

  • Author

    Bess Rhodes

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Brill

  • Published

    August 2019

  • Weight

    477g

  • Page Count

    222

  • Dimensions

    16.1 x 23.7 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9789004347984

  • ISBN-10

    9004347984

  • Eden Code

    5610357