ABOUT THE PAPER

This lecture will explore the role of emotion in the framing of religious controversy in late sixteenth and early seventeenth century Scotland. While recent scholarship has begun to draw more attention to emotional experiences in Scottish Protestantism, the lecture will focus on the way in which emotion was utilised in the framing and expression of arguments between presbytery and episcopacy. This includes the ascription of problematic emotional and ethical motivations to one’s opponents, and the claiming of positive ones. Attention will also be paid to the representation of emotional responses to the conflict amongst a wider section of Scottish opinion. Drawing on relatively familiar polemical sources, correspondence, and narratives, the lecture will suggest new ways of thinking about this formative period in Scottish church politics.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Dr John McCallum is a senior lecturer in History at Nottingham Trent University, and has published widely on the religious and social history of early modern Scotland, most recently Exploring Emotion in Reformation Scotland (2022).

VENUE DETAILS

Tuesday, March 26th | 17:30
The Boyd Orr Building
Room 412 (Lecture Theatre B)
University Avenue
Glasgow
G12 8SP

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First published: 19 March 2024

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