Plagues of the Heart: Crisis and Covenanting in a Seventeenth-Century Scottish Town

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Michelle D. Brock

Plagues of the Heart

Crisis and Covenanting in a Seventeenth-Century Scottish Town

Michelle D. Brock

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Manchester University Press
05 February 2025

Using a wide range of archival material and a microhistorical approach, Plagues of the heart explores the formation, practice and performance of protestant identity amid the interlocking crises of the seventeenth century. Taking the southwestern port city of Ayr as a remarkable but revealing case study, this book argues that under the stewardship of a generation of radical clergy, Scotland developed a distinct and durable 'culture of covenanting'. This culture was created not simply by swearing the National Covenant of 1638 and the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643, but through reimagining the post-Reformation program of discipline and worship around hard-line interpretations of those covenants. This compelling story of one Scottish town and its long-serving minister offers a fresh understanding of how protestant communities across the early modern world grappled with religion and identity during a remarkably tumultuous age.

By: Michelle D. Brock
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 483g
ISBN: 9781526160904
ISBN 10: 1526160900
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 05 February 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Michelle D. Brock is an Associate Professor of History at Washington and Lee University.