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By Steven J, Dr Reid

Across early-modern Europe the confessional struggles of the Reformation touched nearly each point of civic existence; and nowhere used to be this extra obvious than within the universities, the seedbed of political and ecclesiastical society. Focussing on occasions in Scotland, this e-book unearths how confirmed universities chanced on themselves on the centre of a fight via competing forces attempting to advertise their very own political, spiritual or academic ideals, and below festival from new associations. It surveys the transformation of Scotland's medieval and Catholic collage approach right into a greatly-expanded Protestant one within the many years following the Scottish Reformation of 1560. at the same time the research assesses the contribution of the continentally-educated spiritual reformer Andrew Melville to this approach within the context of broader ecu social and cultural advancements - together with growing to be lay curiosity in schooling (as as a result renaissance humanism), and the involvement of royal and civic govt in addition to the recent Protestant Kirk in college enlargement and reform.

Through systematic use of principally missed manuscript assets, the e-book bargains clean views on either Andrew Melville and the advance of Scottish better schooling post-1560. in addition to supplying an in depth photo of occasions in Scotland, it contributes to our transforming into realizing of the function performed by means of better schooling in shaping society throughout Europe.

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