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The life and works of Robert Baillie (1602-1662), politics, religion and record-keeping in the British civil wars, Alexander D. Campbell

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The life and works of Robert Baillie (1602-1662), politics, religion and record-keeping in the British civil wars, Alexander D. Campbell
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eng
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
The life and works of Robert Baillie (1602-1662)
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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971233457
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Alexander D. Campbell
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St Andrews studies in Scottish historyCambridge Social Sciences eBooks
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politics, religion and record-keeping in the British civil wars
Summary
From 1637 to 1660, the Scots witnessed rapid and confused changes in government and violent skirmishing, whilst impassioned religious disputes divided neighbours, friends and family. One of the most vivid accounts of this period may be found in the letters of the Glaswegian minister, Robert Baillie; but whilst his correspondence has long featured in historical accounts of the period, the man behind these writings has largely been forgotten.<BR> This biography draws together for the first time an analysis of Baillie's career and writings, establishing his significance as a polemicist, minister, theologian, and contemporary historian. It is based on the first, systematic reading of Baillie's extensive surviving manuscripts, comprising thousands of leaves of correspondence, treatises, sermons, and notebooks. Chapters address Baillie's writings on monarchy, church government, Reformed theology, liturgical change, Biblical scholarship, and Baillie's practice of record-keeping. Overall, thebook challenges prevalent understandings of the intellectual landscape of Covenanted Scotland, situating Baillie and his contemporaries on the peripheries of a dynamic, European Republic of Letters.<BR><BR> Alexander D. Campbell is Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Post-Doctoral Fellow, Queen's University, Canada.--, Provided by publisher
Table of contents
Machine generated contents note:, 1., Biography and Intellectual Formation --, 2., Monarchical Power --, 3., Presbyterian Church Government --, 4., Reformed Theology --, 5., Five Articles of Perth, the Scottish Prayer Book and Church Discipline --, 6., Biblical Scholarship and the Sermon --, 7., Record-Keeping and Life-Writing: The Creation of Robert Baillie's Legacy

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